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Koha on an Ubuntu server with an Apple server
by Joe Ellis 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

I need someone knowledgeable about networks to check my thinking on a problem I am having. I installed Koha using a Live CD on a Macintosh Mini running Ubuntu 9.1 server for a small private school library. The school uses an Apple server for their school network, I believe it's running Apple's OS 10.4 server software. When I connected the Mini into the school's ethernet network it obtained a dhcp address 192.168.1.60. I entered this address into the Librarian's browser at her disk and got the KOHA login page. But after entering the user name and password the browser couldn't load subsequent pages. I think it's because koha refers back to "localhost" to call scripts. To test this, I brought the Mini home and installed it on my network where I have OS 10.6 server running on another Mini and in fact saw the same result. I then entered the Ubuntu servers name and ethernet address into the DNS server as a sub-zone of my network and like magic, I can log on and run Koha fine. What I need to know is: Is the cure to my problem a simple matter of adding a sub-zone record in the school's DNS server record; or will doing that cause other problems. Any advice would be appreciated. Joe Ellis Canterbury, CT

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Anonymizing circulation history at patron-level?
by Cab Vinton 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Am I correct in assuming that it's all or nothing with the tool to anonymize checkout histories? It occurs to me that ideally patrons would be able to choose for themselves whether to have the system remember their reading histories, following full disclosure of the potential implications. (In our state at least, circ records must to be turned over pursuant to subpoena, court order, etc.) At present, I believe our only option is to manually anonymize everyone's records on a schedule of our choosing. Cheers, Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH

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Importing and saving records, field not filled
by Essi Isola 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

I’m cataloging serials by running a Z39.50 search. The import of records is successful; however Koha doesn’t allow to save the records because the subfield a Extent (v.:) in tab 3 (physical description) is not filled. I wonder what’s the best way to solve this? Best regards, Essi -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Importing-and-saving-records%2C-field-not-filled-tp27… Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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wordpress, collectiveaccess or iMis
by Beth Heller 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Thanks for all the wonderful responses to my last question. We are still considering our options and I've got a few more questions. The library is embedded in the American Alpine Club, and concurrent to a new library catalog the AAC is looking at a new website and cms, probably Wordpress. We use iMis as the membership database. The library is also looking at CollectiveAccess for our archives material and club-wide information access. Is anyone working on integrating Koha with any of these three: CollectiveAccess, iMis, Wordpress? Thanks! Beth Heller Preservation Librarian The American Alpine Club 710 Tenth Street, Suite 15 Golden, CO 80401 Phone (303) 384-0110 x13 bheller(a)americanalpineclub.org http://www.americanalpineclub.org http://aaclibrary.wordpress.com

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Koha 3.2 alpha tarballs available for download
by Galen Charlton 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Hi, Tarballs of Koha 3.2 alpha are now available for download. Two versions are available; the first is a compact version that includes the PO files for translations but doesn't expand them into koha-tmpl, while the second version is the traditional full package that includes every language. Because the full package is ten times larger than the compact one, please download the compact one unless you absolutely require the full version with the translations already expanded. Compact, preferred distribution: http://download.koha.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha.tar.gz (the package itself) http://download.koha.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha.tar.gz.MD5 (checksum) http://download.koha.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha.tar.gz.MD5.asc (signed checksum) http://download.koha.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha.tar.gz.sig (signature of tarball) Version with all translations expanded: http://download.koha.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha-all-translations.tar.gz (the package itself) http://download.koha.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha-all-translations.tar.gz.MD5 (checksum) http://download.koha.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha-all-translations.tar.gz.MD5.asc (signed checksum) http://download.koha.org/koha-3.02.00-alpha-all-translations.tar.gz.sig (signature of tarball) In order to expand all translations from the compact package, after expanding the tarfile, do cd koha-3.02.00-alpha/misc/translator ./install.pll Then run the normal installation process. To expand a particular language, e.g., fr-FR, do cd koha-3.02.00-alpha/misc/translator ./install-code.pl fr-FR As a reminder, as with any alpha release, this is not recommend for use in a production setting. To report bugs in the alpha, please visit http://bugs.koha.org/. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcharlt(a)gmail.com

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Koha 3 from nozebra to zebra, if at all possible...
by Marty 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

While I really do like Koha, I have now run into something I don't seem to be able to solve. The issue is that while I managed to get Koha 3 running without Zebra, it is very sluggish, to a degree that it is barely workable, but I don't seem to be able to get it running WITH zebra. Each and every search results in 'no results found'. Yes, zebra is running (ps -ef | grep returns: biblios@debian:~$ ps -ef | grep zebrasrv koha 2442 1 0 11:55 ? 00:00:00 daemon --name=koha-zebra-ctl.koha --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 koha 2444 2442 0 11:55 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/zebrasrv -v none,fatal,warn -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml biblios 3278 3173 0 13:25 pts/0 00:00:00 grep zebrasrv) Yes, I have done rebuild_zebra.pl (which ALWAYS ends with zebraidx[3185] [warn] Record didn't contain match fields in (bibl,Local-number) , is it supposed to? ) I also restored the kohastructure.sql on somebody's advice. No gain there. I have a backup file from my nozebra box, but no matter what I do, after restoring it, it never runs with zebra. Backup files are made with mysqldump Koha > date_koha.sql from the nozebra box, then restoring it with koha < date_koha.sql. This obviously does restore my database, but also includes all nozebra settings. koha error logs: biblios@debian:/var/log/koha$ cat koha-zebraqueue.err 20100116 19:32:48 koha-zebraqueue-ctl-koha: client (pid 28978) killed by signal 15, stopping 20100116 21:36:12 koha-zebraqueue-ctl-koha: client (pid 2413) killed by signal 15, stopping 20100203 10:30:58 koha-zebraqueue-ctl-koha: client (pid 2384) killed by signal 15, stopping 20100203 11:54:49 koha-zebraqueue-ctl-koha: client (pid 2387) killed by signal 15, stopping biblios@debian:/var/log/koha$ cat koha-zebraqueue-output.log DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'koha.zebraqueue' doesn't exist at /usr/share/koha/bin/zebraqueue_daemon.pl line 123. DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_hashref failed: fetch() without execute() at /usr/share/koha/bin/zebraqueue_daemon.pl line 124. apache2 error logs (truncated); [Wed Feb 3 13:18:49 2010] install.pl: Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 126. [Wed Feb 3 13:18:49 2010] install.pl: Use of uninitialized value $string in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 411. [Wed Feb 3 13:18:49 2010] install.pl: Use of uninitialized value $current_language in string eq at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 288. [Wed Feb 3 13:18:49 2010] install.pl: Use of uninitialized value $current_language in string eq at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 288. [Wed Feb 3 13:18:49 2010] install.pl: Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 294. [Wed Feb 3 13:18:49 2010] install.pl: Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 295. [Wed Feb 3 13:18:49 2010] install.pl: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Languages.pm line 306. [Wed Feb 3 13:21:44 2010] install.pl: INSERT Version at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Installer.pm line 518. So, maybe I am not too bright and miss something obvious, but I CANNOT find it. Please help me figure this one out, thanks, Marty __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.

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Re: [Koha] Budgets in 3.2 Acquisitions
by Nicole Engard 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

That is how it used to be - but we do have another level - a 'sub-budget' -- I do think Budget & then Fund makes sense since that was the language used before - but where does the 'sub-budget' go - does it become a 'sub-fund'? On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Lenora Oftedahl <OFTL(a)critfc.org> wrote: > What about Budget for the entire monetary mass a library has to spend. > Fund for each section of the budget? > > Or account? > > Lenora > Just tossing ideas of words I vaguely remember from acquisitions class and previous positions > > Lenora A. Oftedahl > StreamNet Regional Librarian > Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission > http://www.fishlib.org > > > > >>>> > From: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt(a)gmail.com> > To: Garry Collum <gcollum(a)gmail.com> > CC: "koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz> > Date: 2/3/2010 8:55 AM > Subject: Re: [Koha] Budgets in 3.2 Acquisitions > > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Garry Collum <gcollum(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I talked with our Acquisition's Librarian. She thought that both >> 'root' and 'source' are programmer's terms. 'Source' is better than >> 'root.' She preferred 'Main' or 'Material's Budget.' > > I agree that 'root' and 'source', both of which refer to the tree > structure of the budgets, could be viewed as programmers' terms, but > 'Materials Budget' seems a little too book-centric - i.e., a source > budget could in fact be a budget for materials, but a top-level budget > could also be for electronic databases licensing. > > That said, either "Source Budget" or "Main Budget" works for me, > though the latter only as long as there's no confusion caused by the > fact that you could have multiple "main" budgets. > > Regards, > > Galen > -- > Galen Charlton > gmcharlt(a)gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > >

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can't get zebra to index
by Zachary Spalding 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

I am working with the 3.2 alpha release from git://git.librarypolice.com/git/koha-rm.git and I can't seem to get Zebra to index. It will export the records and that is it, is there a way for me to get some more verbose or logging information to figure out what is going wrong? This is what I am seeing root@tigger:/var/log# /usr/local/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -v -b -a Zebra configuration information ================================ Zebra biblio directory = /var/lib/koha02032010/zebradb/biblios Zebra authorities directory = /var/lib/koha02032010/zebradb/authorities Koha directory = /usr/local/koha02032010/intranet/cgi-bin BIBLIONUMBER in : 999$c BIBLIOITEMNUMBER in : 999$d ================================ ==================== exporting authority ==================== Records exported: 0 ==================== REINDEXING zebra ==================== ==================== exporting biblio ==================== 201.................................................................................................... Records exported: 211 ==================== REINDEXING zebra ==================== ==================== CLEANING ==================== -- Zachary Spalding Systems Manager Southeastern NY Library Resources Council 21 S. Elting Corners Rd Highland, NY 12528 Phone: 845-883-9065x13 Fax: 845-883-9483 Email: spalding(a)senylrc.org

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Budgets in 3.2 Acquisitions
by Joann Ransom 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Hi all, I am probably jumping the gun here, but I am trying to understand the logic behind the new acquisitions module so I can load in our budgets in the most effective way. I understand that a 'root budget' is for a fixed period of time, and has sub-budgets. So is the thinking that you would create 1 root budget for 2009-2010 financial year, and then sub-budgets within that for each spending area ie Fiction, LargePrint, DVDs etc. Or, would you create a Root Budget for 'Fiction 2009 - 2010', and then another for 'Largeprint 2009 - 2010' and then another for 'DVDs 2009 - 2010', and then add sub-budgets to those. So for example 'DVDs 2009-2010' could have sub-budgets for 'Adult DVDs', 'Teen DVDs' & 'Junior DVDs.' Cheers Jo.

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Ubuntu LiveCD with Koha, DSpace,PKP Harvester, and dbWiz
by Vimal Kumar 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Another Koha live cd from India. Dr. ARD Prasad announced an Ubuntu based live cd which contain Koha, Dspace, PKP Harvester and dbWiz. Here is the full view of announcement appeared in Digital Library Research Group. Dear All, If you are interested in a Ubuntu-9.10 based Livecd, pre-configured with 1) DSpace, 2) PKP Harvester (OAI harvester based search engine for digital repositories) 3) Koha, and 4) dbWiz (a federated search engine for online Journals/databases) You may download from http://sf.net/projects/liblivecd OR http://liblivecd/sf.net NOTE: Though sourceforge.net shows the size of the file as 712 MB, the actual size is 680 MB. After downloading the ISO file, you may cut a CD (700 MB capacity) as ISO file. DONOT copy the ISO file on to the CD!!! For people who never used a liveCD: Once you have the CD, you may boot your system with the CD. LiveCD will not write anything to your Hard Disk. You can work from the CD itself and try testing DSpace, PKP harvester, Koha, and dbWiz. If you wish to have the Ubuntu Operating system along with these Library related software, you may click the "Install Ubuntu-9.10" icon. Take more care while partitioning your hard disk. You may use even multi-boot with the existing operating systems on your system. -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.vimalkumar.co.nr Blog: http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in OK Society Volunteer. http://oksociety.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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