Hi Chris,
It's like Joel says. In that scenario, you're pretty much limited to manually
putting in the jobs on a per-instance basis.
I think a few of us devs are trying to slowly add more system preference driven
controls for controlling which cronjobs are run for which instances, so that
koha-foreach iterates through the instances but they only run for particular
instances, but it's very slow going.
One thing to add... you'll want to use "koha-shell" to run your cronjob. Under
the hood, all koha-foreach is really doing is running the following:
koha-shell ${name} -c "${cmd}";
So you could add to /etc/cron.daily/koha-common the following:
koha-shell INSTANCE -c "/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/longoverdue.pl --parameter
1 --parameter 2"
David Cook
Senior Software Engineer
Prosentient Systems
Suite 7.03
6a Glen St
Milsons Point NSW 2061
Australia
Office: 02 9212 0899
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:38:07 +0000
From: Chris Brown <[email protected]>
To: koha <[email protected]>
Subject: [Koha] Running a koha cron job for only one of our libraries
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Hello,
Our koha server supports 7 libraries, each with its own database. We are
running Koha 22.11.20
We wish to run the cron job longoverdue.pl for only one of the instances. I
notice that the cron jobs in /etc/cron.daily/koha-common all use the command
"koha-foreach" to run the job for all the enabled instances. Is there a way we
can just run the job for just one specific instance?
Thanks!
Chris Brown
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:35:47 -0500
From: "Coehoorn, Joel" <[email protected]>
To: Chris Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: koha <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Koha] Running a koha cron job for only one of our
libraries
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If the instances each have distinct users on the server, try running the job
without the koha-foreach command from the crontab for that specific user.
*Joel Coehoorn*
Director of Information Technology
*York University*
Office: 402-363-5603 | [email protected] | york.edu
On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM Chris Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Our koha server supports 7 libraries, each with its own database. We
> are running Koha 22.11.20
>
> We wish to run the cron job longoverdue.pl for only one of the instances.
> I
> notice that the cron jobs in /etc/cron.daily/koha-common all use the
> command "koha-foreach" to run the job for all the enabled instances.
> Is there a way we can just run the job for just one specific instance?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris Brown
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