[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cron job to check for holds

[Hardy, Elaine]

I think you may also have found why the system wasn't retargeting holds
for your missing items. 

 

Elaine

J. Elaine Hardy
PINES & Collaborative Projects Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Ste 150
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304

404.235-7128
404.235-7201, fax
ehardy at georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org/pines

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[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
Deana Cunningham
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 4:05 PM
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cron job to check for holds

 

Hi all, 

 

Thanks to everyone who pointed out ways around the holds with a status of
"missing" or "trace". Making those statuses holdable did fix the problem.

 

The other issue we are having is with our cron job to check for holds. We
set it up awhile ago and it has been chugging along just fine. The other
day, staff mentioned that holds did not seem to be triggering correctly.
When I went back to check for for the previous check time, I was getting
only one or two checks a day, instead of the hourly checks that are
supposed to run. When IT looked into it, they said that Linux is
triggering the cron job but the script is not running. When they give it
the command to "run now", the script will run fine for two or three
iterations, then it stops again. They don't know if it is overlapping
(although it only takes five or ten minutes to run when they are watching
it), if it is getting hung up somehow, or if it is just staying in memory.

 

If anyone can give me an idea of what is going on (or where to look) I
would appreciate it!


Thanks again,

 

Deana

 

Deana Cunningham 

Branch Manager, South Branch Library

1550 S. Campus Dr.

Creedmoor, NC 27522

Phone: (919) 528-1752

Fax: (919) 528-1376

deana.cunningham at granvillecounty.org

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