Bug 5821

Summary: Enable cron job for merge_authorities.pl
Product: Koha Reporter: hansbkk
Component: PackagingAssignee: Robin Sheat <robin>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P5 - low CC: m.de.rooy, mjr, tomascohen
Version: rel_3_2   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17908
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Description hansbkk 2011-03-03 04:58:28 UTC
The SysPref "dontmerge" is set to "Don't" by default.

The text states "ask your administrator to enable the merge_authorities.pl cronjob"

From the mail list - Robin Sheat: "I don't think that the packages enable that task. It's probably something they should do." 
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.koha/23635

The README.Debian and/or the related wiki page should point out that this cron job should be disabled if the syspref is changed.

IMO these needs a bit of detail for noobs on how to enable/disable cron jobs consistent with the package's methodology. If I can I'll try to do it in the wiki once I figure it out.
Comment 1 MJ Ray (software.coop) 2011-06-29 21:00:36 UTC
Maybe I'm going nuts, but where is the merge_authorities.pl cronjob? There's merge_authority.pl but that isn't a cronjob.
Comment 2 Marcel de Rooy 2011-06-30 06:34:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Maybe I'm going nuts, but where is the merge_authorities.pl cronjob? There's
> merge_authority.pl but that isn't a cronjob.

misc/migration_tools/merge_authority should be the one
Comment 3 Nicole C. Engard 2011-06-30 10:47:12 UTC
More on that here: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.4/en/cronjobsch.html#mergeauthcron (if anyone wants to submit a patch and update the documentation on this cron I welcome it :)
Comment 4 Marcel de Rooy 2017-01-14 11:04:56 UTC
Closing this one in favor of bug 9988. See also omnibus bug 17908

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9988 ***