[Koha-bugs] [Bug 8337] System preferences for longoverdue cron

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8337

--- Comment #24 from M. de Rooy <m.de.rooy at rijksmuseum.nl> ---
(In reply to Anthony Laquerre from comment #19)
> In a context of school library systems such preferences are likely to change
> on average 2-3 times per year. 
> Unfortulalty, many library does not have the money available to make
> requests for changes to IT company. 
> 
> Unlike Jonathan, I beleive that each cronjob parameter useful for the end
> user should be in the sys pref table.
> This allows the librarian to make his own choix and not always having to go
> through a process of change by the IT provider.

In some command-line scripts preferences are used too (e.g. look at finesMode
in fines.pl). So, an exception can always be made. Still, the principle is that
cronjobs get their parameters on the command line. A lot of people may be able
to access the preferences and change them by incident, the crontab file needs
root privileges. So further away, but safe. If someone occassionally changes
this pref, he may not even realize that a cron job will later use the value.

The fact that you add them as fallback, makes it somewhat better. If you put
them in the crontab, you should not fear the pref values anymore ;) Will look
if the description of the prefs still needs some tweaking..

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