[Koha] RE: Koha Digest, Vol 19, Issue 42

Joshua M. Ferraro jmf at liblime.com
Thu May 31 23:53:23 NZST 2007


Hi Khaliq,

You can simply delete:

/usr/local/koha
/etc/koha.conf
/etc/koha-httpd.conf

and remove any line you added to your apache configuration.

Cheers,

-- 
Joshua Ferraro                       SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
President, Technology       migration, training, maintenance, support
LibLime                                Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS
jmf at liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

----- "Khaliq Yar Haidary" <khaidary at auaf.net> wrote:
> Can anybody tell me how to remove / unstall Koha from Fedora Core 6.
> 
> With thank
> Khaliq Yar
> khaidary at auaf.net
> 
> 
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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: Overdues notices and fines: what scripts are supposed to
>       work? (Kyle Hall)
>    2. Re: Overdues notices and fines: what scripts are supposed	to
>       work? (Kevin O'Rourke)
>    3. Re: Overdues notices and fines: what scripts are supposed	to
>       work? (Kevin O'Rourke)
>    4. Re: Overdues notices and fines: what scripts are supposed to
>       work? (Joshua M. Ferraro)
>    5. Re: Overdues notices and fines: what scripts are supposed	to
>       work? (Kevin O'Rourke)
>    6. Re: data entry and barcode generation (Steven F.Baljkas)
>    7. Re: "Purchase Suggestion" Form Available but does not work
>       (Joshua M. Ferraro)
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 09:21:55 -0400
> From: "Kyle Hall" <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Overdues notices and fines: what scripts are
> 	supposed to	work?
> To: "Kevin O'Rourke" <lists at caboose.org.uk>
> Cc: Koha Mailing List <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Message-ID:
> 	<aa4e12320705300621s3854a02ak4fa03057312fa11e at mail.gmail.com>
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> 
> If you are interested, I've written alternative fines and overdues
> generators that are part of koha-tools (
> http://kylehall.info/index.php/projects/koha-tools/ ).
> 
> The fines generator creates fines for an item upon the return of an
> item, rather then generating fines each night. That means that each
> item will only have one fine listed that totals the amount due,
> rather
> than a fine for each day overdue. This more closely emulates our
> previous ILS and our librarians preferred it.
> 
> The overdues generator allows you to specify the period of
> 'overdueness' and allows one to create a shelf list to check for
> items
> that might have been accidentally shelved without first being
> returned, and also a pdf of nicely formatted notices to mail out.
> 
> Both of them are written in PHP rather than Perl, and that's why I've
> kept them in a separate project rather than as part of the Koha
> repository.
> 
> Kyle
> 
> On 5/30/07, Kevin O'Rourke <lists at caboose.org.uk> wrote:
> > I've just started looking into emailing overdue notices to our
> members.
> > I tried out the overduenotices.pl script but it doesn't seem to be
> > working.  I don't get any output when I run it with the -n parameter
> (no
> > email, output to stdout) but I also don't get any errors.  Does
> anyone
> > have this working correctly in 2.2.9 (Debian Sarge)?
> >
> > The documentation at kohadocs.org seems to suggest that since
> version
> > 2.2 none of the scripts for calculating fines work.  Is this true?
> >
> > --
> > Kevin O'Rourke
> > ICT Coordinator, National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria
> > 062 316972
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Koha mailing list
> > Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> IT Tech
> Crawford County Federated Library System
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:46:59 +0100
> From: Kevin O'Rourke <lists at caboose.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Overdues notices and fines: what scripts are
> 	supposed	to work?
> To: Koha Mailing List <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Message-ID: <465D8053.7020709 at caboose.org.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> Kyle Hall wrote:
> > If you are interested, I've written alternative fines and overdues
> > generators that are part of koha-tools (
> > http://kylehall.info/index.php/projects/koha-tools/ ).
> >
> > The fines generator creates fines for an item upon the return of an
> > item, rather then generating fines each night. That means that each
> > item will only have one fine listed that totals the amount due,
> rather
> > than a fine for each day overdue. This more closely emulates our
> > previous ILS and our librarians preferred it.
> That sounds very interesting.  Having to run cron jobs for things like
> 
> fines is one of the parts of Koha that seems unnecessarily complicated
> 
> to me.
> > Both of them are written in PHP rather than Perl, and that's why
> I've
> > kept them in a separate project rather than as part of the Koha
> > repository.
> I'm a little bit concerned about adding separate things like this to
> our 
> Koha setup, especially when the download is only possible from a 
> Subversion repository.
> 
> I can deal with all these things, but I'm only here until September so
> 
> I'm trying to keep the system as easy to deal with as possible.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Kevin O'Rourke
> ICT Coordinator, National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria
> 062 316972
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:20:39 +0100
> From: Kevin O'Rourke <lists at caboose.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Overdues notices and fines: what scripts are
> 	supposed	to	work?
> To: "Joshua M. Ferraro" <jmf at liblime.com>
> Cc: Koha Mailing List <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Message-ID: <465D8837.7020507 at caboose.org.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> Joshua M. Ferraro wrote:
> >>> The documentation at kohadocs.org seems to suggest that since
> >>>       
> >> version 
> >>     
> >>> 2.2 none of the scripts for calculating fines work.  Is this
> true?
> >>>       
> >> I'm still curious which fines script I should use.
> >>     
> > The fines module in Koha is a fine example of a feature that hasn't
> > been fully exposed to the system administration section of the
> admin
> > interface. For now, the assumption is that if you need to enable
> > fines and you're managing Koha yourself (as opposed to getting
> > commercial support from one of the available providers), you'll be
> > spending some time customizing the fines script and module to suit
> > your needs. That said, have a look at the fines2.pl in misc/ that
> > relies on C4/Circulation/Fines.pm, it's a good example of how to
> > start out with fines management in Koha.
> >   
> Thanks for the information.  So it looks like the documentation is
> wrong 
> and fines2.pl does work, but needs customisation.  I've had a look at
> it 
> and it's not pretty, there are far too many magic numbers in there. 
> For 
> example, there's a maximum fine variable buried in the code, set to 5.
>  
> However, here in Nigeria that's far too low (there are about 130 Naira
> 
> to the US Dollar).  If I had the time I'd rewrite it to read things
> out 
> of system preferences.
> 
> Would I be right in saying that for each "fine cycle" (7 days or 
> whatever) this will add an additional line item to the borrower's
> record?
> 
> Getting support from one of the available providers would be great,
> but 
> Nigerian educational organisations just don't have the money.
> 
> -- 
> Kevin O'Rourke
> ICT Coordinator, National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria
> 062 316972
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> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 09:59:05 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Joshua M. Ferraro" <jmf at liblime.com>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Overdues notices and fines: what scripts are
> 	supposed to	work?
> To: Kevin O'Rourke <lists at caboose.org.uk>
> Cc: Koha Mailing List <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
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> ----- "Kevin O'Rourke" <lists at caboose.org.uk> wrote:
> > > Joshua M. Ferraro wrote:
> > > The fines module in Koha is a fine example of a feature that
> hasn't
> > > been fully exposed to the system administration section of the
> admin
> > > interface. For now, the assumption is that if you need to enable
> > > fines and you're managing Koha yourself (as opposed to getting
> > > commercial support from one of the available providers), you'll
> be
> > > spending some time customizing the fines script and module to
> suit
> > > your needs. That said, have a look at the fines2.pl in misc/ that
> > > relies on C4/Circulation/Fines.pm, it's a good example of how to
> > > start out with fines management in Koha. 
> > Thanks for the information. So it looks like the documentation is
> > wrong and fines2.pl does work, but needs customisation. I've had a
> > look at it and it's not pretty, there are far too many magic
> numbers
> > in there. For example, there's a maximum fine variable buried in
> the
> > code, set to 5. However, here in Nigeria that's far too low (there
> > are about 130 Naira to the US Dollar). If I had the time I'd
> rewrite
> > it to read things out of system preferences.
> I'm not sure which documentation you're referring to, but yes, the
> fines stuff in Koha could definitely use a re-write.
> 
> > Would I be right in saying that for each "fine cycle" (7 days or
> > whatever) this will add an additional line item to the borrower's
> > record?
> > 
> > Getting support from one of the available providers would be great,
> > but Nigerian educational organisations just don't have the money.
> I understand completely. Lack of money is a challenge that us
> providers
> face as well :-). Since you've been given the opportunity to work on
> Koha, perhaps you'd be able to share your solutions with the
> community.
> It's exciting to hear that the educational organizations in Nigeria
> have
> decided to invest in the project, we're always looking for new
> programmers to join the effort. Welcome :-).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Joshua Ferraro                       SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
> President, Technology       migration, training, maintenance, support
> LibLime                                Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS
> jmf at liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:26:49 +0100
> From: Kevin O'Rourke <lists at caboose.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Overdues notices and fines: what scripts are
> 	supposed	to	work?
> To: Koha Mailing List <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Message-ID: <465D97B9.2060702 at caboose.org.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> Joshua M. Ferraro wrote:
> > I'm not sure which documentation you're referring to, but yes, the
> > fines stuff in Koha could definitely use a re-write.
> >   
> http://www.kohadocs.org/command_line_scripts.html - lots of comments 
> about things not working in version 2.2.
> > I understand completely. Lack of money is a challenge that us
> providers
> > face as well :-). Since you've been given the opportunity to work
> on
> > Koha, perhaps you'd be able to share your solutions with the
> community.
> > It's exciting to hear that the educational organizations in Nigeria
> have
> > decided to invest in the project, we're always looking for new
> > programmers to join the effort. Welcome :-).
> >   
> We're just one of the teacher training organisations here, other 
> organisations are either implementing their own systems or none at
> all.  
> The typical college library in Nigeria has very few books and those
> are 
> usually kept in a locked cabinet to ensure no-one can spoil them :-)
> 
> -- 
> Kevin O'Rourke
> ICT Coordinator, National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria
> 062 316972
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:29:49 -0500
> From: Steven F.Baljkas <baljkas at mts.net>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] data entry and barcode generation
> To: naste dwoya <tichtektee at yahoo.com>, <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Cc: baljkas at mts.net
> Message-ID: <5s1ihs$5jf62f at wnpgmb02-c600c.mts.net>
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> Wednesday, May 31, 2007     10:22 CDT
> 
> Dear Naste Dwoya,
> 
> With apologies for the delay in responding, I can offer the following
> quick
> words of advice regarding cataloguing now ...
> 
> Koha developpers are still working away (tireless, dedicated bunch --
> applause for all!) on making a better MARC editor for Koha.
> 
> In the meantime, however, if you have to do data entry from scratch
> (i.e.
> starting from nothing), it may well be easier to use a simple MARC
> editor
> such as Terry Reese's MARCEdit, which is available for free off of
> the
> Library of Congress MARC Records, Systems and Tools page at
>     URL <http://www.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html>
> 
> In recommending this, I am assuming you have access to a Windows
> platform
> machine, because while some people have reported that MARCEdit works
> fine
> for them on a linux platform, it is not made to do so.
> 
> If you can make use of MARCEdit and want to go forward with my
> suggestion,
> please write back to me off listserv with an example of the kind of
> data you
> need to enter AND the kind of barcodes you wish to use (if possible)
> and I
> shall try to set up an example template for you to follow in data
> entry as
> soon as possible.
> 
> As for generating barcodes, I believe there are several answers to
> that
> problem in the Koha archives. Perhaps that part of the problem can
> wait
> until you have actual records to work with?
> 
> I hope that this information helps in the meantime.
> 
> In any case, best wishes as you continue your work with Koha and
> welcome to
> the Koha community!
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven F. Baljkas
> library tech at large
> volunteer cataloguer
> Koha neophyte
> Winnipeg, MB, Canada
> 
> 
> ============================================================
> From: naste dwoya <tichtektee at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2007/05/28 Mon AM 05:46:33 CDT
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: [Koha] data entry and barcode generation
> 
> Hi, i have successfully completed the installation of
> Koha, unfortunately i am unable to carry out the
> cataloging, can you please give me a step by step
> direction on what to do. i would also like to generate
> barcodes, unfortunately every time i try i receive an error.
> 
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:58:18 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Joshua M. Ferraro" <jmf at liblime.com>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] "Purchase Suggestion" Form Available but does not
> 	work
> To: bo at weavebrain.com.au
> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Message-ID:
> <4799327.41311180540698367.JavaMail.root at mail.liblime.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
> Hi Bo,
> 
> ----- "Bo Schafers" <bo at weavebrain.com.au> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The 'purchase suggestion' form can be accessed and filled in by all,
> 
> > even visitors who are not logged in...
> > 
> > However when submitting the form as an anonymous visitor the form
> > fails transparently, no error message, no confirmation. The patron
> might 
> > believe he's actually sent a request to a librarian when in reality
> > her well-researched and thoughtful  book suggestion has has fallen
> into a
> > boundless, digital vaccum -never to be seen again or heard of again.
> 
> > (Version 2.2.9)
> > 
> > Something for the devs...
> OK, there's a syspref called AnonSuggestions, you set that to the
> borrower number of the 'anonymous patron' and that should fix it for
> you.
> 
> However, you have uncovered a bug: if that syspref isn't turned on,
> the suggestions link should force the patron to log in before they
> can add a suggestion. Could you add a bug report to bugzilla for
> that?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Joshua Ferraro                       SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
> President, Technology       migration, training, maintenance, support
> LibLime                                Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS
> jmf at liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
> 
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