[Koha-zebra] Cronjob of "rebuild_zebra.pl" doesn't work

[Mark Tompsett]

Greetings,

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./proc/1071/fd:
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Aug 10 01:29 3 -> /tmp/koha-zebra-ctl.koha.pid
l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Aug 10 01:29 4 ->
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That's weird, but I don't think these are relevant. But 
/tmp/koha-zebra-ctl.koha.pid is.
What is the ls -la for /tmp/koha*?

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/var/log/koha/koha-zebradaemon.err
l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Aug 10 01:29 5 ->
/var/log/koha/koha-zebradaemon-output.log
l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Aug 10 01:29 6 ->
/var/log/koha/koha-zebradaemon-output.log
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That's weird too. The piping I used is based on knowing it is the last three 
lines. Here's mine (ls -la /var/log/koha | tail --lines=3):
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-rw-r--r--  1 koha koha     1183 Aug  7 13:33 koha-zebradaemon-output.log
-rw-r--r--  1 koha koha        0 Feb 23 03:10 koha-zebradaemon.err
-rw-r--r--  1 koha koha        1 Jun 29 04:09 koha-zebradaemon.log
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These are generated by the koha-zebra-daemon. So, you may wish to stop it. 
Delete these. And restart it. Hopefully it will generate something closer to 
what I've shown you.

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./etc/init.d
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    37 Jun  4 09:17 koha-zebra-daemon ->
/usr/share/koha/bin/koha-zebra-ctl.sh
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That should be fine *IF* /usr/share/koha/bin/koha-zebra-ctl.sh is owned by 
koha.
But does an RPM-base system use /etc/init.d? I don't feel like spending 20 
minutes to boot my CentOS VM to check.

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The original file however are owned by koha; is it possible that these
symbolic links are the cause of the iusse?
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Perhaps.

Are you running the reindexing as koha, or another user? You need to run the 
reindexing as koha.

And though you may start the koha-zebra-daemon as root, it should be running 
as koha too:
(ps aux | grep zebra)
koha      5041  0.0  0.0  16832   548 ?        Ss   Aug09   0:00 
daemon --name=koha-zebra-ctl.kohadata --errlog=/var/log/koha/koha-zebradaemon.err 
 --stdout=/var/log/koha/koha-zebradaemon.log --output=/var/log/koha/koha-zebradaemon-output.log 
 --verbose=1 --respawn --delay=30 --user=koha koha -- /usr/bin/zebrasrv -v 
none,fatal,warn -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
mtompset  5846  0.0  0.0    348    72 pts/0    R+   15:50   0:00 
grep --color=auto zebra
koha     22494  0.0  0.6  99632  7188 ?        S    01:15   0:00 
/usr/bin/zebrasrv -v none,fatal,warn -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml

GPML,
Mark Tompsett