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daemon failing to insert into marc_breeding
by Harry Jackson 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

I am assessing Koha 2.0.1RC1 for use here and I am in need of some pointers. First thing I need to get working is the import facility. I have got as far as getting the daemon working and downloading a marc record and updading the z3950results table. Having searched throught the daemon source I was under the impression that the ImportBreeding method would then insert the record into the marc_breeding table but this does not appear to be happening. Any pointers on where abouts in the source to look would be helpful. The output from the daemon is as follows (looks fine to my untrained eye) 1 starting loop 2 starting loop 3 starting loop 4 29114/37 : Processing isbn=0470846747 at LibraryOfCongress z3950.loc.gov:7090 Voyager MARC21 (1 forks) 5 29114/37 : 2 >> 6 29114/37 : creating and 29114/37 : working on results entry 73 7 29114/37 : connected to LibraryOfCongress 8 29114/37 : LibraryOfCongress : 1 records found, retrieving them (max 80) 9 29115/37 : Processing isbn=0470846747 at ION.SLV.VIC.GOV.AU 192.190.180.3:7090 voyager MARC21 (2 forks) 10 29115/37 : 2 >> 11 29115/37 : creating and 29115/37 : working on results entry 74 12 29115/37 : connected to ION.SLV.VIC.GOV.AU 13 29115/37 : ION.SLV.VIC.GOV.AU : no records found 14 29115/37 : 192.190.180.3:7090 search done. And to answer the question at: 185 # and connect to z3950 server 186 #FIXME: why do we need $dbi ? can't we use $dbh ? in the daemon source. The reason you are unable to use the handle created before the fork is because you cannot share database connections across process's. Cheers, Harry

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RE: [Koha] Questions on data security, liability and RFP issues
by Brenda Chawner 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Steven, I'm afraid I've being a bit slow on the uptake of this one. The responses so far have been very sensible, and I agree that good system administration practices are the best approach to security. Your question about accountability and legal liability for open source software isn't something I've looked at so far.. The GPL (which is what Koha uses) explicitly states that the software is offered with no warranty (to my knowledge it is the most commonly used free software licence). If you know a lawyer, you might want to find out how that clause of the license might be interepreted in Manitoba. I know that there have been a couple of books published recently on open source licensing, and if you have access to a copy of either one, you might like to see if they say anything about this. They are Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing by Andrew M. St. Laurent and Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law by Lawrence Rosen. Like you, I've come across the attitude that we want to buy things from a big company so that we can sue them if necessary, and think it's a sad comment about people's perspective (and a possible indicator of a future problem). You might be fighting an uphill battle with that one, as I think that free software is more easily adopted by people who are sympathetic to the concept. FirstMonday recently published an article about open source development and education, and you might find some helpful arguments there. You can find it at: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_8/hepburn/index.html -- Brenda Chawner School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington P O Box 600 Wellington NEW ZEALAND (04) 463 5780 fax (04) 463 5446 brenda.chawner(a)vuw.ac.nz

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I think theres a Bug in new 2.2 Koha release
by Harry Jackson 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Global symbol "$context" requires explicit package name at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 110. Global symbol "$context" requires explicit package name at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 111. Global symbol "$context" requires explicit package name at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 112. Global symbol "$context" requires explicit package name at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 113. Global symbol "$context" requires explicit package name at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 189. Global symbol "$context" requires explicit package name at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 190. Global symbol "$context" requires explicit package name at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 191. Global symbol "$context" requires explicit package name at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 192. Global symbol "$context" requires explicit package name at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 193. To fix Add the following line: my $context = C4::Context->new("/path to/koha.conf"); to /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue The line needs to go before the first use of the $context variable. Replace "path to" with the directory of where your koha.conf file is. Harry

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New Koha document
by Stephen Hedges 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

I'm pleased to announce that Baiju M's document detailing the process of migrating from the CDS/ISIS system to Koha is now available on the Sourceforge Koha site (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/koha/koha-doc/en/sysadmin/migration/) You'll find the "official" XML source as well as an HTML conversion there. -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Koha 2.2.0RC1 is out...
by Paul POULAIN 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

All informations here : http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=283087 PS : help is needed for bug hunting, of course... -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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koha user manual
by Belendia Abdissa 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi We were planning to develop software for our library system. But we search on the internet we get Koha and it fulfills all our requirements. There fore we decided to use it. But we can�t get a user manual in order to train our librarians. So would you please send as the user manual immediately? --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! � Get yours free!

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Fedora core 2 install
by mike re-v 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

hi YES fc 2 runs Koha 1.2.3 and 2.0.1 fine $uname -a kernel 2.6.5-1.386 build may 04 #/usr/sbin/apachectl -v server 2.0.49 mysql>show attributes; mysql 3.23.58 re-v __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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koha on fedora core 2 and not to make run with apache/2.0.52
by Christian Calle 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

Greetings to all. Considered profit not to make run koha2.0.1, in fedora with apache/2.0.52 !! please I request aid to them! If it runs to me with the previous vers. of apache...! thanks;) Atte. Christian Calle

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koha on fedora core 2 and not to make run with apache2 - httpd-2.0.50
by Christian Calle 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

Greetings to all. Considered profit not to make run koha2.0.1, in fedora with apache2 httpd-2.0.50.? please I request aid to them! If it runs to me with the previous vers. of apache...! thanks;) Atte. Christian Calle

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Test Records
by Bigwood, David 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

I have made our catalog of MARC records available for anyone who wants them for testing. The file contains about 22,000 records containing about 53,000 items. It has the holdings in field 856. The records are pretty clean but it is the actual catalog of our collection, so it is not perfect. I just finished doing some clean-up on the catalog. Using MarcEdit and MARC RTP I was able to spot incorrect or obsolete fields and subfields and change them. I've replaced the file in our FTP site with the cleaned-up version. There are readme files there that explain the file in greater detail. For anyone interested the URL is: ftp://www.lpi.usra.edu/pub/outgoing/bigwood Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood(a)lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml Cataloging News http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com

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