March 2005 - Koha - lists.katipo.co.nz

about z3950 searches [BUG]
by Paul POULAIN 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hello the list, The processz3950queue script worked well in 2.0. It's the script that is used by z3950daemon-launch.pl. But we forgotted to copy a modif to the 2.2 branch. I've fixed it, it will be available in 2.2.2 that should be here in a week or two. For those that want to fix the bug immediatly, edit processz3950queue. At line 191, you should read : my $dbi = DBI->connect("DBI:$db_driver:$db_name:$db_host",$db_user, $db_passwd); Just after this line, add the following : $dbh->{"InactiveDestroy"} = "true"; That should fix your problem. (in my CVS install, it works fine, the "mysql gone away" problem will disappear) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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2.2.0 Roadmap
by Paul POULAIN 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hi Koha fans, Chrismas & new year approches, so, i wanted to share with you the roadmap of Koha : * today, i'll release Koha 2.2.0RC5. Fixes a few problems, and adds few features. * I'll be away of the web from tuesday 21 to january, 3rd. But don't worry, i'll continue hacking a little bit Koha. In fact, i plan to do 3 things : - write scripts to migrate a library that will adopt Koha in 2005Q1. - write a DOC to explain deeply how to migrate datas from XX to Koha, and tune all Koha parameters (authorized values, authorities...) to have a perfectly working cataloguing tool. Will be in french, so translators fr => en are welcomed. - "copy" improved virtual shelves tools into OPAC. * On January, 3rd, for my return, unless there is a major problem appearing, i'll release official 2.2.0 !!! This date has been choosen because it will be the 5th birthday of our preferred ILS. A great date, really. TECHNICAL info : i'll create a new branch in CVS for 2.2.0 on january. Until then, please, just commit bugfixes and/of minor improvements in the HEAD branch. At least, commit NOTHING that needs a change in the DB. Note that 2.2.x will probably contain some great tools being developped by Nelsonville at the moment. don't be too impatient, just know that it will be really great (for public libraries, just nice for search libraries) ;-) PRIVATE info : today, it's my 10th wedding birthday ;-) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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On Debian
by H S Rai 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

On "Koha's" web-site, http://koha.org/installation/ it is mentioned that "Katipo" is using Debian: > Installation and Support > Koha Requirements > To install Koha for immediate use we recommend > * A Linux server - Debian is what Katipo uses But, I find there is no Deb package of Koha. Is it so , or my search was poor! -- H. S. Rai : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : Deleting dot files LOST #163 Doing a 'rm -f *' within a directory will remove all the files within the directory but NOT invisible DOT (.) files. You need to do a: '$rm .[A-Za-z0-9]*' # To delete DOT files ####[bish (at) nde.vsnl.net.in]############################### : _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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z3950 demon error
by Karl Agee 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I get this error when attempting to start the z3950 daemon: -su-2.05b# ./z3950-daemon-launch.sh .: Can't open ./z3950-daemon-options: No such file or directory __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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includes
by Karl Agee 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I dont see where the path to the includes is in my koha.conf file: -su-2.05b# less /etc/koha.conf database=Koha hostname=localhost user=kohaadmin pass=xxxxxxxxx intranetdir=/usr/local/koha/intranet opacdir=/usr/local/koha/opac kohalogdir=/usr/local/koha/log kohaversion=2.2.1 httpduser=www intrahtdocs=/usr/local/koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl opachtdocs=/usr/local/koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl is it important that it is in this file? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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HELP: text to marc to koha
by Christopher M. Jones 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Some volunteers at my school have spent a few months making an accessions list in plain text files as follows: Barcode : ISBN : Author : Title The original plan, I suppose, was to use z3950 to get some of the marc records and fill in the rest by hand to be imported into koha. In general, I don't get good results querying LOC for juvenile fiction, and my script hasn't worked for other databases. We are really desperate to get basic records into koha so we can do basic circulation in our school library. We can worry about the quality of the records later. My question is: What is the best way to get the information from the file formatted as above into koha? Can a script be written to generate a minimal marc record for each entry in the file? If so I don't know enough about marc to create the script. Perhaps there is another way? Can anyone help? _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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stopwords
by Karl Agee 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

I just accessed the database from the command line, and there is nothing in my stopwords table (no data that is). The system preferences screen does_show a stopword of "it". mysql> select * from stopwords; Empty set (0.00 sec) mysql> so what gives, did I put the value of "it" in the worng place? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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2.2.1 on Libranet
by c. murdock 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Hi all, I'm trying to get 2.2.1 installed on Libranet 2.8.1 (a Debian-based distro) and am running into trouble with the installation script. I followed Joshua's instructions for installing on Debian Woody (excellent, BTW!) and everything seems to go smoothly until it tries to create the database. I was wondering if anyone else had run into this. Here's the error output from the database creation stage: Creating the MySQL database for Koha... 0/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'access denied for user: kohaadmin@localhost (Using password: YES)' However, I can log in to the mysql monitor with the kohaadmin user. I also notice that when the script is creating the user 'kohaadmin' (after prompting for the password) it prints out this message, but still proceeds to the next step. I don't know whether it's significant or not, so I'll include it: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at Install.pm line 1364, <STDIN> line 9. Anyhow, it seems that the database isn't getting created as a result. Can anyone tell me what I can do to fix it? Below is some of the version information for related software on this system: mysql: ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.24 perl 5.8.4 apache 1.3.33 kernel 2.4.21 Thanks! Cindy _________________________ Cindy Murdock Network Administrator Meadville Public Library | Crawford County Federated Library System meadvillelibrary.org | ccfls.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Help - KOHA/Z3950queuelog
by Adalid Ortiz 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Ok, I'm still having problems with the z3950 script. This is the URL for the log (short version). Can anyone see it and help me. http://consag.tij.uia.mx/kohalog/processz3950queue.txt Gracias, -- LIC. FELIPE ADALID ORTIZ ANZALDO Area de Medios Electrónicos Biblioteca Loyola http://www.loyola.tij.uia.mx UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA TIJUANA Ave. Centro Universitario 2501 Playas de Tijuana Tijuana, B.C., México 22200 Tel. 664 630-1577 Ext. 623 Fax 664 630-1591 eMail adalid(a)tij.uia.mx "No sobreviven los más fuertes, ni los más inteligentes, sino aquellos que tienen una mayor capacidad para adaptarse a los cambios." --Charles Darwin-- _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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(no subject)
by lib＠gndec.ac.in 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Hi all members! Please let me know the answers of the following queries: 1. What is the name of the script to uninstall the software. 3. Is there an option to track the data entered by particular users (Actually we are planning to get the data entry by the 1st and 2nd year students...so we will be providing them with admin accounts and we would need to keep track of the data entered by each student). 4. There is something known as Z39... server....it probably connects to the various servers to get info about the books...How do we use this thing. 5. Here we are using a system called CC (colan classification). It is being 6. Are there any servers running other than the library of congress server which we can use to get data about the books. 7.As most of the books from indian publishers are without any ISBN numbers, can we get details about these books (like gist) from some source on the internet? 8. We have around 1,80,000 books in the library.Are there any shortcuts we can use with the data entry thing. 9. Since you are already in the data entry stage, are you using any data shops for the data entry? Kanwal Dhindsa _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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