User manual

Koha's Web Installer, Crontab, and Other Server Configurations

To launch the OPAC navigate to the OPAC url and you should see a screen such

as this:

Library Catalog

Configuring the crontab

Several Koha programs need to be run periodically. These programs calculate fines,

generate overdue notices, send out e- mails, or build Zebra indexes.

We use Linux's Cron utility to schedule the execution of these programs.

Editing the crontab

The cronjobs are set up under the koha user's crontab. To edit the crontab we run

the command

crontab

with the

-e

option:

koha@koha@linux: -> crontab -e

To save and exit, we use the vi command

wq:

:wq

Setting up environment variables

The first thing we need to do is to set Koha related environment variables in the

crontab; without these none of the cronjobs will execute. Add these lines in the

crontab, somewhere at the top:

PERL5L28=/home/koha/kohaclone

KOHA CONF=/etc/koha-dev/etc/koha-conf.xml

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