Thanks John, I have a little Linux & Unix admin experience, not nearly enough I think, but have never built anything like this,
All good wishes, bryan Bryan A. Low Systems Support (Part Time) ALIS Headquarters 01651871225 Normal Hours: Monday 9:00am - 1:00pm Tuesday 1:00pm - 5:00pm Wednesday 8:30am - 12:30pm & 1:00pm - 5:00pm Friday 8:30am - 12:30pm 1:30pm-5:00pm |------------> | From: | |------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |John Hudson <[email protected]> | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |------------> | To: | |------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |[email protected] | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |------------> | Date: | |------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |23/11/2011 19:09 | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |------------> | Subject: | |------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] newbie evergreen server build | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |------------> | Sent by: | |------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |[email protected] | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| <Bryan.Low@...> writes: > Am about to start an attempt at building an evergreen server in > Aberdeenshire, and would welcome any recommendations/advice/feedback. > > I haven't settled on anything yet but was thinking about using Ubuntu > server as a platform and picking my way throughthe online How-To install > from the evergreen site, would be glad of any advice. I'm a relative beginner with Linux and assume you're more experienced than I am. I only managed to get a basic system working on my third attempt (starting with a clean OS each time) and after a great deal of frustration. I still haven't managed to get the UK localisation to work and am posting separately about that issue. So, initially I would say you need lots of patience and some Linux expertise. I spent many hours over a period of weeks installing Ubuntu, then Debian (on two different PCs) and going through the installation procedure, encountering errors each time. Pay particular attention to the changes of user. There are several of these in the instructions and I found it was easy to miss one unless I marked the user in the margin before following the instruction. For this reason, I was more comfortable with Debian than Ubuntu, because Ubuntu out of the box makes you use 'sudo' instead of 'su', which I find more fiddly. (I know Ubuntu can be configured to allow 'su' but I didn't want any more complications.) You need to do a certain amount of reading between the lines because sometimes the instructions make assumptions, or miss things out. For example, in http://open-ils.org/documentation/install/README_2_1_0.html, I've pencilled in "Change back to directory above" before the installation instruction for MAKE_STAFF_CLIENT_STAMP_ID - this initially gave me a "Not found" error. There are a few cases where the instructions refer to "your user" and I was confused about which user was meant. Good luck! **************************************************************************** This e-mail may contain privileged information intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please accept our apologies and notify the sender, deleting the e-mail afterwards. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the e-mail's author and do not necessarily represent those of Aberdeenshire Council. www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk ****************************************************************************
