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Fwd: Live DVD (Was: Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD
by Chrispin Simasiku Sitali 22 May '13

22 May '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chrispin Simasiku Sitali <libsitali(a)gmail.com> Date: 22 May 2013 11:08 Subject: Re: [Koha] Live DVD (Was: Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD To: Mirko <5p4m(a)gmx.de> sorry just hit the reply button without realizing that it was direct to you. I would love to share my experience with everyone On 22 May 2013 11:00, Mirko <5p4m(a)gmx.de> wrote: > Chrispin, > > Chrispin Simasiku Sitali schrieb am 22.05.2013 > > Well, to be honest I really benefited from Live DVD. I am a librarian who > > had no prior experience about linux. The live DVD assisted me a lot to > > learn about Koha itself and the internal plumbing of linux. I am a self > > taught koha and linux user. I remember at KohaCon12 in Edinburgh, > Scotland > > asking MJ and Chris Cormack about the possibility of a Koha Lived at the > > conference. No, was the asnswer. Thanks to Mr Olugbenga Adara of Nigeria > > and to my own persistence I taught my self. So it was the Live DVD, the > > Koha mailing list and my own willingness to learn. > > > > So if you ask me today, I am able to install Koha on a server with GUI or > > not, configure them properly for LAN or internet access and do training. > I > > introduced Koha in all the teacher training colleges under the Ministry > of > > Education, including the three new universities Nkrumah, Mukuba, NISTCOL > > and at the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA), > > > > I wouldn't strike the Live DVD off. Its a very nice tool to begin with, > so > > please dont shoot it down! > > > > thank you very much for sharing your positive experience! I'm happy > that you were able to learn thanks to the Live DVD. I'd love to read > more experiences like yours if people have them. :) > > It is not my intention to shoot down the Live DVD. If it is used to > actively learn your ways around the system (Koha and GNU/Linux) that > is fantastic and exactly the way I would like to see it used. > > What I consider problematic is to encourage its productive use as a > long term option. Not only will it lead to outdated systems, but > also to problems regarding community support, as it is not used by > developers and there might be problems specific to the DVD. > I would love to see Live DVD users teach themselves and later switch > to a regular installation, but I am under the impression that this > is more of an exeptional case than the rule. > > I just realized that you answered offlist, so I will answer directly > to you too in case you did not want to share your experience on the > list. I encourage you to send it to the list though, so others can > read it too. :) > > -- Mirko > > -- Charles Lwanga College of Education, P. O. Box 660193, Monze, ZAMBIA. Mobile: +26 0979 869471 SKYPE: Libsitali -- Charles Lwanga College of Education, P. O. Box 660193, Monze, ZAMBIA. Mobile: +26 0979 869471 SKYPE: Libsitali

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Changing language
by Lars J. Helbo 22 May '13

22 May '13

If i have more than one language installed and allow the user to change the language, I will get a link for each language at the bottom og the screen. When I click this link changelanguage.pl is executed. I have an installation, where this fails. No matter how often I press this link, the language will remain english. I presume it tries to change the language, fails and then returns to default (english). I am now trying to find out, why it fails. Is the selected language written in some kind of configuration-file? One of my ideas is that changelanguage.pl does not have the needed permissions to write to this file. -- Venlig hilsen Lars J. Helbo Borgergade 44, Sall DK-8450 Hammel tlf+fax: (+45) 8696 9315 lars(a)helbo.org www.helbo.org

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Upgrade koha-3.10.05 to koha-3.12.00 but rebuild_zebra.pl not running
by Vikas Salunkhe 22 May '13

22 May '13

Dear all i am upgrade koha-3.10.05 to koha-3.12.00 upgrade successfully but when i try to rebuild_zebra.pl and use following command zebra is not running, the following message is comming, please guide me lib@lib:~$ sudo KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml PERL5LIB=/home/koha/lib /home/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -w -v [sudo] password for lib: Warning: You are running this script as the user 'root'. If this is intentional you must explicitly specify this using the -run-as-root switch Please do '/home/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl --help' to see usage. Vikas Salunkhe

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Routing list notice not working properly
by sunil sharma 22 May '13

22 May '13

Dear all, I configure the postfix mail server for koha 3.08.11 in debian-6. All notice going fine, except routing list. Actually the routing list notice to subscriber list is going fine after receiving a new serial but only title of that particular serial is displayed in the mail, other information get skip. For e.g. my routing list notice is set like this;- Koha Module: Serial (routing list) Code: RLIST Message Subject: Serial is now available Message Body:- Dear Borrower, The following magazine/journal has been arrived in the Library and Information Center, and available for reference : <<biblio.title>>, <<biblio.author>> , <<items.barcode>> <<serial.serialseq>>, <<serial.publisheddate>> Thanks, Library and Information Center *Now, when we receive the mail it contain the following text only, * Dear Borrower, The following magazine/journal has been arrived in the Library and Information Center, and available for reference : sample Journal, , , Thanks, Library and Information Center so, it is clear that only biblio.title is supported by this notice. Please help me in this regard. Any help would be appreciated. //BR Sunil

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Want to raise a bug about fine module
by sunil sharma 22 May '13

22 May '13

Dear All, In fine module, currently we can set fine for a particular patron category and for any item type. A number of option available in current fine criteria like loan period, fine amount, fine charging interval etc. But this limit a library to apply a constant fine amount for a category whether the no. of days for which fine is applicable are 10 days or 100 days. What I want to say that in koha there should be increasing fine amount criteria. i.e when fine is calculated it should calculate like this:- Let say, After 'x' days the fine amount is 'a' After 'x+y' days the fine amount become 'a+b' where, x - the loan period a - fine amount after x days y - A constant period after which the fine gets change b - the fine amount applicable after 'x+y' days Please give your suggestion and help me in this regard. //BR Sunil

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joining forum from university of ilorin, Nigeria
by George Eromosele 22 May '13

22 May '13

The University of Ilorin, is interested in joining your forum because we have started using Koha and we want to benefit from the information other libraries benefit from being a member of the forum. You can access our koha web link with www.unilorinlibopac.org.ng:8001 George Eromosele Systems Analyst University of iLorin Library Nigeria

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add marc record-workflow
by clint.deckard 22 May '13

22 May '13

Greetings, I have been unable to find a solution to a workflow request; at the 'add marc record' screen the 'change framework' dropdown box defaults to the default framework, is there a way to make it default to the Books, Booklets, Workbooks framework? This seems as if it should be easy, have I missed something? Many thanks for your collective wisdom, Clint.

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Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD
by Lars J. Helbo 21 May '13

21 May '13

Hi, I am trying to promote Koha here in Denmark. We have a large number of small private schools for whick Koha is just great. However, often they do not have a lot of knowhow on Linux terminal (or nothing at all). Here the Live-DVD is really great. Starting with that, I try to make step-by-step guides (on my site koha.dk) to help people without any preconditions to get started. One of the major remaining obstacles is the need to change the master password katikoan. I have made a guide on this and I think most people should be able to handle it. However, it made me wonder, if this obstacle could be avoided? One possibility would off course be to let people enter their own password during the installation from the live-DVD, but that would probably complicate the installation proces and I like that to be as simple as possible. Therefore I had another idea, but I dont know, if this is at all possible. Could the "scope" of the users be limited? What I would like was, if this master-user (with password katikoan) would only work, if you sit and log in directly at the server (not across any network). Then you would install koha on the server, log in there and create at least one admin-user. Then you could use this to log in from somewhere else and continue from there. In this case there would be no need to change katikoan, because nobody from outside could use it. Maybe this could be extended. When you create admin-users, you may give them different permissions. Maybe these could be dependent on whether you log in at the server, from the local network or across the Internet. I think this could increase the general security? At least I could easily imagine cases, where a user should have admin-rights only, when sitting inside the house at the local network. -- Venlig hilsen Lars J. Helbo Borgergade 44, Sall DK-8450 Hammel tlf+fax: (+45) 8696 9315 lars(a)helbo.org www.helbo.org

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SQL Report Update
by Cab Vinton 21 May '13

21 May '13

* Report edited so that it now works :-) Non Circulating Items Developer: Nicole C. Engard, ByWater Solutions Module: Circulation Purpose: List items that have never circulated Status: Complete SELECT b.title, b.author, i.barcode, i.itemcallnumber FROM items i LEFT JOIN biblio b USING (biblionumber) WHERE i.itemnumber NOT IN (SELECT itemnumber FROM issues WHERE itemnumber IS NOT NULL) AND i.itemnumber NOT IN (SELECT itemnumber FROM old_issues WHERE itemnumber IS NOT NULL)

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Re: [Koha] Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD
by Vimal Kumar V. 21 May '13

21 May '13

Dear Lars, I appreciate your efforts to promote Koha in Denmark. Now Koha 3.12 version Live DVD is in progress. Please listen about are login settings with this Live DVD, I have done post installation steps of Koha (e.g. sample news etc.) I have not created Library Branch. In my experience most of the librarians like to assign their own code for library branch. So, after installation of Live DVD, librarian has to login using master login details and need to create a normal user and assign super librarian privileges for daily login. I assigned master user name is "koha_library", password is "koha123". And all details including passwords mentioned in Readme file, which put in desktop. This arrangement is friendly for newbies? Otherwise, we have to create a branch with code "MAIN" and assign a super librarian with password. Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.info Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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