The fine generator can't be run via action/trigger. However, unless
you have hourly or otherwise less than daily fines, you also only need
to run it once a day. If you do have hourly or otherwise less than
daily fines then you really only need to run it once per the smallest
fine period you have.
At checkin fine generation should help catch any stragglers on less
than daily fine generation, which means that you may only need to run
it once every few fine periods instead (say, every 3 hours when you
have hourly fines).
Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
Quoting Jesse Ephraim <[email protected]>:
(We are running Evergreen 2.0.9 on Ubuntu 10.04)
We have been having multiple issues with our fine generator.
Sometimes it locks up, and sometimes multiple instances try to start
(we have it locked down to only one instance). Right now the
OpenSRF crontab is set to run it every 31 minutes.
How much more efficient (or less error-prone) are action triggers?
If we set an action trigger to run when an item is checked in, would
it pass item-specific variables to fine_generator.pl so it will only
run it on that one item?
On a related note, does anyone use any monitoring software to notify
you when key processes hang up or stop?
Thanks much!
Jesse Ephraim
Director, Roanoke Public Library
308 S. Walnut
Roanoke, Texas 76262
(817) 491-2691
[email protected]
