[Koha] new install: z3950 client not connecting to servers

[Baljkas Family]

Monday, November 8, 2004    20:30 CST

Hi, Christopher,

In answer to your question about connecting "manually" to the Library of Congress catalogues: yes, you can. In some ways, it is even preferable to go on a record by record basis, as one can evaluate different choices in record available that may occur.

BTW, the MARC record, when saved is a long alphanumeric string, beginning with a long set of mostly numbers. Do not be alarmed by this. It is normal.

If you are still having problems with the Z39.50 parameters and you are certain it isn't Koha-related, you might want to check through the specs at URL <http://www.loc.gov/z3950/lcserver.html>

Hope this has helped.

Cheers,
Steven F. Baljkas
library tech at large
Koha neophyte
Winnipeg, MB, Canada

 
> From: "Christopher M. Jones" <cjones at partialflow.com>
> Date: 2004/11/08 Mon PM 08:12:16 CST
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] new install: z3950 client not connecting to servers
> 
> Yes, I can get to the website, but there's something wrong. I installed
> Koha at home to play with it, and everything works fine out of the box
> on my home machine. When I go to z3950.loc.gov:7090 in mozilla from home
> I get an error message from Yaz. At school, it never finds the server at
> all. Is this an issue with kernel support, maybe? The only difference
> between Debian at school and Debian at home is the 2.6.8 kernel at home
> vs. the 2.4.x Debian kernel at school. And I do remember reading
> something about kernel dependencies with Debian. 
> 
> Are you able to connect "manually" to the LoC catalog at
> > http://catalog.loc.gov/ ?
> > 
> > Christopher M. Jones said:
> > > Here are my settings and some logfile stuff.
> > >
> > > File
> > > /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/z3950daemon-options
> > > contains the following:
> > >
> > > RunAsUser=www-data
> > > KohaZ3950Dir=/usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon
> > > KohaModuleDir=/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules
> > > LogDir=/usr/local/koha/log
> > > KohaConf=/etc/koha.conf
> > >
> > > I started the daemon with z3950daemon-launch.sh. 'ps -A'
> > > shows processz3950queue.
> > >
> > > z3950 log file shows the following:
> > >
> > > starting loop
> > > starting loop
> > > starting loop
> > > starting loop
> > > starting loop
> > > starting loop
> > > starting loop
> > > 1956/23 : Processing title=A Wrinkle in Time at ILLINOIS
> > > LIBRARY COMPUTER SYS$
> > > 1956/23 : no connection at ILLINOIS LIBRARY COMPUTER SYSTEMS
> > > ONLINE
> > > 1956/23 : illcso.illinois.edu:210 search done.
> > > Event: '?? Connection.pm:153' died and then $Event::DIED
> > > died with: Can't cal$
> > >
> > >  at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/Net/Z3950/Manager.pm line 256
> > > Event: '?? Connection.pm:153' died and then $Event::DIED
> > > died with: Can't cal$
> > >
> > >  at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/Net/Z3950/Manager.pm line 256
> > > Event: '?? Connection.pm:153' died and then $Event::DIED
> > > died with: Can't cal$
> > >
> > >  at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/Net/Z3950/Manager.pm line 256
> > > 1958/23 : Processing title=A Wrinkle in Time at BASHKIR
> > > STATE UNIVERSITY OF M$
> > > 1958/23 : no connection at BASHKIR STATE UNIVERSITY OF
> > > MEDICINE
> > > 1958/23 : http://www.bsmu.anrb.ru:210
> > > search done.
> > > 1955/23 : Processing title=A Wrinkle in Time at
> > > LibraryOfCongress z3950.loc.g$
> > > 1955/23 : no connection at LibraryOfCongress
> > > 1955/23 : z3950.loc.gov:7090 search done.
> > > 1957/23 : Processing title=A Wrinkle in Time at ACCADEMIA
> > > DELLA CRUSCA FIRENZ$
> > > 1957/23 : no connection at ACCADEMIA DELLA CRUSCA FIRENZE
> > > 1957/23 : biblio.crusca.fi.it:9909 search done.
> > > starting loop
> > > starting loop
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > >> cjones,
> > >> What are the settings for you Z3950 sever?
> > >>
> > >> Gerry
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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> > >>
> > > 12 at joimail.com
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >Just installed Koha on Debian Sarge (testing). Used the
> > >> >2.0.1 tarball from sourceforge. Looks good, except that
> > >> >searching for isbn or title using z3950 returns "server
> > >> not >responding" for all my biblio servers. I've checked
> > >> my >installation against all the docs I could find,
> > >> searched the >mail list, and I'm just not seeing the
> > >> problem.  >
> > >> >Not sure what other information you need. Can someone
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