Re: [Dspace-tech] srb/s3/etc and lucene

2007-05-04 Thread Mark H. Wood
does Lucene, as used in DSpace, locate and gain access to the files it indexes? If it doesn't go through the DSpace storage layer or something equivalent then indexing is screwed. Ouch! I hadn't thought about these at all. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL

Re: [Dspace-tech] Getting dspace started in at bootup.

2007-05-24 Thread Mark H. Wood
ault' suffices to get it started at boot time. It just works. (Shutdown is another story.) What OS(/distro) are you using? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he mea

Re: [Dspace-tech] psql restoring a dump

2007-05-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
m crontab on one of my production DSpace hosts, showing how I do the nightly database dump: 00 02 * * * /usr/bin/pg_dump -Ft -U tomcat -b dspace | gzip -9 > /opt/dspace/db.tar.gz (A system backup job comes along later and copies the dump to tape.) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Progra

Re: [Dspace-tech] Postgresql datase issues--resolved

2007-05-30 Thread Mark H. Wood
the PG documentation recommends) to keep this straight. I upgraded to 8.1 another instance of PG not used for DSpace, I didn't follow the advice as to version of pg_dumpall, and the resulting script didn't run cleanly until I'd edited it a bit -- fortunately that instance is ju

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace Dublin Core DTD or Schemas | Where are they?

2007-06-08 Thread Mark H. Wood
Would this help? http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/ -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpABqoivG9Ao.pgp Description: PGP

[Dspace-tech] Ordering bitstreams on the item detail page

2007-06-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
s? In one case I would argue that the "item" is really a collection, but others are not so easy. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpFKh5EQOziv.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace installing-db ident authentication failed problem???!

2007-07-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
27;, 'crypt', 'password', or 'pam'. Those methods should ignore Tomcat's username and depend on the DBMS username and password that you configured in 'dspace.cfg'. I run Tomcat under the username 'tomcat', install and configure DSpace to use t

Re: [Dspace-tech] Flash files in DSpace

2007-07-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
SMIL document which points to it. This requires that the client know what to do with an 'application/smil' document. RealPlayer and Quicktime understand these, but I don't recall whether they understand Flash. Depending on your specific needs, another AV format might serve bet

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: Automatic scheduled backup for DSpace using open source backup software

2007-07-30 Thread Mark H. Wood
las, it doesn't have such an agent. If you *do* have such an agent available, that's probably a better approach than mine. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a prod

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: Automatic scheduled backup for DSpace usingopen source backup software (testing)

2007-08-01 Thread Mark H. Wood
The first thing I would check is that the postmaster (the service that mediates access to the database cluster) is running. "Connection refused" sounds like nothing is listening on port 5432 (or whatever port you use for PostgreSQL). -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reply-To Header missing - list misconfigured?

2007-08-01 Thread Mark H. Wood
e List-Foo: headers are not disabled. In Mutt I can hit "L" to reply-to-list and not send multiple copies to the O.P. as "g" would. (I hate receiving duplicates -- another religious issue.) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software

[Dspace-tech] Coding special characters for batch ingestion

2007-08-21 Thread Mark H. Wood
stead. However, character entities such as mdash and sect are rejected as "referenced but not defined". Where would I find the rules? Where would I find the code defining the rules? We're running stock 1.4.2 (plus heavily customized Manakin, but Manakin shouldn't be involved he

Re: [Dspace-tech] Coding special characters for batch ingestion

2007-08-27 Thread Mark H. Wood
Thanks, all -- that helps a lot. One additional problem I face is that I've been given no idea of which encoding(s) were used. What fun. Ever seen an Icelandic capital "Eth" used as a dash? :-/ -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a softw

Re: [Dspace-tech] different database on the same server

2007-09-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
box with three DSpace instances, and a development-environmnent box with, oh, probably a dozen by now. I was hesitant at first, but it works well. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he mea

Re: [Dspace-tech] bulk load communities/collections

2007-10-04 Thread Mark H. Wood
cessary integrity rules, and it should be more isolated from future changes in the schema and so should remain useful to others over time. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exa

Re: [Dspace-tech] Academic SRB support

2007-10-26 Thread Mark H. Wood
right within DSpace? We're trying to see the roadmap here. Well, I have been tinkering with an EMC Centera assetstore backend built atop Richard Rodgers' storage refactoring work, and I want us to contribute it to DSpace if it works out. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Dspace-tech] Blocking a malicious user

2007-11-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
c policies, libwrap, xinetd host restrictions, listen() address scope, and application access controls (defense in depth, you know), finding a network connectivity problem can be bad for one's blood pressure. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a softwa

Re: [Dspace-tech] Email SSL trouble

2007-11-09 Thread Mark H. Wood
ght be able to negotiate the use of unencrypted SMTP from your specific host as an exception to the general rule. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpbLzcdPnCD5.pgp

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals (was: ETDs & Dspace - Best Practices)

2007-11-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
e-work per DSpace release after we've ported our JSPUI changes to XMLUI. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpOrnzPVugDZ.pgp D

[Dspace-tech] OpenSearch support?

2007-11-15 Thread Mark H. Wood
There's interest here in adding OpenSearch support to our DSpaces. I found some two-year-old pages suggesting the possiblity of such, but the author seems to have moved on. There's no mention of OpenSearch on the DSpace Wiki. Has this been done? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals

2007-11-16 Thread Mark H. Wood
ng should not be difficult. In any case they would be usable as-is. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposit

Re: [Dspace-tech] OpenSearch support?

2007-11-19 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 06:30:18PM +, James Rutherford wrote: > Mark H. Wood wrote: > > There's interest here in adding OpenSearch support to our DSpaces. I > > found some two-year-old pages suggesting the possiblity of such, but > > the author seems to have mov

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals

2007-11-19 Thread Mark H. Wood
ore often need it when they are taking up the task, not whenever it is available -- there's too big a time gap between the lecture and the lab., so to speak. I think that written material is probably more effective here, and I applaud those who are creating it. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System P

Re: [Dspace-tech] streaming video?

2007-11-23 Thread Mark H. Wood
I've tinkered a bit with storing an item consisting of a SMIL document that points at the actual stream. I got it to work but we haven't used this in production yet. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is

Re: [Dspace-tech] streaming video?

2007-11-26 Thread Mark H. Wood
ed. We're setting one up now. We've looked at using another unit's streamer, but that service is really for more ephemeral stuff and I don't think it's considered a serious alternative at this point. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pdf protected

2007-11-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
idenote that speaks to the ease of avoiding the security. I wish. I frequently receive email full of stackdumps from the filter cronjob when it trips over a PDF that someone's forgotten to unlock. It's a pain having to write those "if you want your document indexed..." letters

Re: [Dspace-tech] Status of Pluggable Storage Interface

2007-12-07 Thread Mark H. Wood
Oh, good. Chicken/egg problem: I've tinkered with an application of this, but sort of lost momentum while waiting to see if and when the work my code depends on will be taken up. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a produ

Re: [Dspace-tech] why vanilla?

2007-12-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
s. Regularly moving released mod.s to a "released projects" page would help to make it clear what you can just plug in now and what you may be able to help develop, which is an important distinction depending on your needs and resources. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Dspace-tech] example: a Manakin Aspect to modify the breadcrumb trail

2008-02-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
it from the particular presentation you use. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgp1rPT4DHrZA.pgp Description: PGP signature ---

Re: [Dspace-tech] Two instances on one server

2008-02-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
effect is that each can be at the root of its own URL local-part. The handle resolvers are listening on separate addresses, so the standard ports don't conflict. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says t

Re: [Dspace-tech] RE : RE : DSpace stability with large number of bitstreams

2008-02-07 Thread Mark H. Wood
27;t have the code in front of me, but it's something like SHA-1 over the file's content concatenated with the current date/time. I wouldn't spend much time worrying about this case. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says

Re: [Dspace-tech] Install DSpace on Ubuntu

2008-02-20 Thread Mark H. Wood
ou may find useful clues in the log files written by Tomcat. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgp5hWIyENvkQ.pg

Re: [Dspace-tech] Poor response time in DSpace 1.4.2

2008-02-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
out and stable for many months. On the java side I'm using the postgresql JDBC driver v8.1-404. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Poor response time in DSpace 1.4.2

2008-02-28 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:55:59AM -0600, Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[NCI INFORMATION SYSTEMS] wrote: > What do you have the buffers set at in postgreSQL.conf? shared_buffers = 1000 Everything else is commented out, using defaults. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Dspace-tech] Suggestion for Manakin install documentation

2008-03-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
7;s really unfortunate that there doesn't seem to be a standard-conforming way to pass per-instance configuration data into a webapp at startup time, instead of tinkering with the interior of the app. at build time for each distinct configuration. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [

[Dspace-tech] Google Webmaster Tools

2008-03-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
page comes back with status 200 instead of 404, and I'm not quite sure how to set up a verification META tag in a Cocoon app. I'm hoping to point Google's sitemap harvester at our site's associated PMH service, but need to verify to Google my control of the site first. -- M

Re: [Dspace-tech] utf8 and dspace

2008-03-07 Thread Mark H. Wood
Let's turn the question around. Is UTF-8 a problem for you? why? What would you need to make it no longer a problem? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pg

Re: [Dspace-tech] utf8 and dspace

2008-03-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
ll the sections, em-dashes, accents, and silly "smart"quotes. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpxwhtqXuwhc.pgp Description: PGP signature --

Re: [Dspace-tech] Upload large group of files easily

2008-03-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
e an additional webapplication, the Lightweight Network Interface, which could be used to build batch loading tools, and support for something called SWORD which seems to be a similar approach. I do not know of any published tools which use these interfaces, but I have not yet gone looking for any. -

Re: [Dspace-tech] Automatic system alert when tomcat is down.

2008-03-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
it can be improved. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. #! /usr/bin/perl -w # ping-servers -- check web servers for life and wellness # Copyright 2005 Indiana University

Re: [Dspace-tech] Stats Question

2008-03-20 Thread Mark H. Wood
Permission problem? What account owns the logs? What account runs the stat. job? What permissions are on the logs? Does it say anything in addition to "failed to read log?" Perhaps you could post the entire attempt verbatim. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL

Re: [Dspace-tech] Oracle and DSpace 1.5 and "ILIKE"

2008-03-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
E eperson_id = ? OR LOWER(firstname) LIKE ? OR LOWER(lastname) LIKE ? OR LOWER(email) LIKE ? if dbquery is guaranteed to be lowercase already. Possibly these queries would be slightly slower than what we have now, but I would suggest that this is a place where a PGism should be s

Re: [Dspace-tech] Older versions of Dspace?

2008-03-26 Thread Mark H. Wood
View Older Releases from the DSpace Stable package. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpk8DvfypRvN.pgp Description:

[Dspace-tech] Mapping page elements -> stylesheets in XMLUI?

2008-04-01 Thread Mark H. Wood
there any shortcut around starting in dri2xhtml/structural.xsl and pretending to be an XSLT processor until the affected template is found? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exac

Re: [Dspace-tech] Regarding Video Content Support in DSpace

2008-04-02 Thread Mark H. Wood
ocument as the item's primary bitstream, and having that point to a streaming server which supplies the actual video. The problem I ran into is that SMIL support in popular browsers was poor to nonexistent at that time. I haven't retested for a while, so the situation may have improve

Re: [Dspace-tech] Regarding Video Content Support in DSpace

2008-04-03 Thread Mark H. Wood
read-only access directly to DSpace bitstreams. It makes a lot more sense to me than building a whole new e.g. streaming subsystem for DSpace. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means

[Dspace-tech] Offtopic: place for general XSLT discussion?

2008-04-03 Thread Mark H. Wood
ent but is pulled in by the theme in the middle of processing, I don't think I can index it using a key element because the nodes I want to index don't exist at the point that the key element is processed. Grrr, my first serious foray into a new technology *always* turns into one of t

Re: [Dspace-tech] Offtopic: place for general XSLT discussion?

2008-04-07 Thread Mark H. Wood
wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Mark H. Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there some good place to ask questions about XSLT in general? > > Try the XSL mailing list Mulberry Technologies runs: > <http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/>. That led me to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Hardware used in DSpace repositories

2008-04-09 Thread Mark H. Wood
your DBMS monitor with enough buffer space to work efficiently, either. (Another topic I need to pursue more diligently. )-: -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposit

Re: [Dspace-tech] Error during compling the dspace source code after adding Statistics addon 1.1

2008-04-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
when I upgraded from 1.4 to 1.5 and then 1.5 to 1.6. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpsspWAjzNax.pgp D

[Dspace-tech] Lots of sites pursuing streaming hacks -- how to coordinate?

2008-04-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
number of people are interested in this, it seems. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpo3V4VGL2Zi.pgp Descri

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2008-04-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
TOday! -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpPJxhJKKN3z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Dspace-tech] Lots of sites pursuing streaming hacks -- how to coordinate?

2008-04-11 Thread Mark H. Wood
I've made a page on the wiki to collect ideas about A/V material: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/The_Challenge_of_Audio_and_Video Please add to it! -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive&quo

Re: [Dspace-tech] View but not saveable

2008-04-15 Thread Mark H. Wood
circumvent these markings, and there is open-source software out there which can easily be hacked to do this. Consider it equivalent in power to the spring lock on a diary, no more -- a reminder, not an enforcement tool. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 manual- reviewers needed

2008-04-17 Thread Mark H. Wood
A couple of points: o Word? What makes you think we have Word? ODF, please. o Uh, 1.5 is released, and the manual is in the docs directory. Is this something different? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is

Re: [Dspace-tech] creating multiple instances with Manakin

2008-04-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
each is using a different database and a different assetstore. In the former case I'd expect that the wrong .war files were being deployed, since UI changes will be in files packed into the .war. Anyway, please tell us more details of how the three instances fail to differ as expected. --

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace database creation error

2008-04-21 Thread Mark H. Wood
PostgreSQL documentation on Ident authentication is probably the best place for help. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpvx3hgBFDXg.pgp Descri

Re: [Dspace-tech] Creating database problem

2008-04-23 Thread Mark H. Wood
earch I found that I should edit the file pg_ident.conf. > But what should I edit? Did anyone face a similar problem? May I ask why you're using Ident authentication? I think this is the first use of it that I've ever heard of. I've used MD5 authentication whenever I grant

Re: [Dspace-tech] user statistics

2008-04-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
to run the statistical scripts, you may have permission problems. In addition to the modification mentioned in a previous reply, you may want to add $! to the error message so you see *why* the file could not be opened. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when

[Dspace-tech] Tangent: *configuring* user statistics

2008-04-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
on that? While I'm at it, I might suggest making the start_year and start_month commandline parameters to stat-initial and stat-report-initial. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive&quo

Re: [Dspace-tech] Tangent: *configuring* user statistics

2008-04-30 Thread Mark H. Wood
That should do nicely. Thank you! -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpkwkeXyutzt.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Dspace-tech] Run time error with 1.5

2008-05-21 Thread Mark H. Wood
I *was* running 1.4.1/1.4.2 on Tomcat 5.5. They're now running on Tomcat 6. I had no special problems with either one. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.

[Dspace-tech] Manakin 1.1a returns wrong status code with page-not-found page

2008-05-23 Thread Mark H. Wood
use. I think this is the last hurdle for getting Google's Webmaster Tools to work on XMLUI sites. They test for proper not-found status as part of verification. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is &quo

Re: [Dspace-tech] Manakin 1.1a returns wrong status code with page-not-found page

2008-05-23 Thread Mark H. Wood
BJECT); + response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND); } } -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpDS9gz5RVGv.pgp Description

Re: [Dspace-tech] Handle server startup fails - looking for InnaKlimbovskaia, Rafa Carreres or Mathias Hjelt

2008-06-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
wrote: > Now if I could just figure out how to add a new page to > http://wiki.dspace.org ... anybody? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_create_a_new_page.3F -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is &quo

[Dspace-tech] Specify dimensions of a textarea in input-forms.xml?

2008-06-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
ract box bigger but leave other 'textarea's be. DSpace 1.4.2 + Manakin 1.1a. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Specify dimensions of a textarea in input-forms.xml?

2008-06-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
h nicer if the field element had dimensional attributes or children which passed through to the DRI document. I see code in structural.xsl looking for @rows and @cols attributes that seem to have no way of getting there. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically w

[Dspace-tech] Tapping into user registration flow from my own aspect

2008-06-24 Thread Mark H. Wood
URI through the current (EPerson) sub-sitemap. Will Bad Things happen if I change these to absolute paths, to send them through the complete sitemap tree? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he

Re: [Dspace-tech] About DSpace and LDAP synchronization

2008-06-24 Thread Mark H. Wood
Space really needs or ought to "know" about an LDAP-authenticated EPerson is the DN. The EPerson class should ask the directory for any other identity datum required of it. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is

[Dspace-tech] Repository for Manakin 1.1 patches?

2008-06-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
Where should one send patches for Manakin 1.1? Yeah, we should be moving to DSpace 1.5 with integrated XMLUI, and we will, but right now I'm busy stamping out fires to clear time for bigger changes. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software v

Re: [Dspace-tech] Tapping into user registration flow from my own aspect

2008-06-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:01:38PM -0400, Mark H. Wood wrote: > Trouble is, eperson.js is passing relative URIs to sendPageAndWait(), > which evades my other-aspect code by only processing the URI through > the current (EPerson) sub-sitemap. Will Bad Things happen if I change > these

Re: [Dspace-tech] Batch Import document

2008-07-21 Thread Mark H. Wood
. Recommendation noted, but what *are* the Foundation's documentation processes? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgp3HQwQlq52

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Batch Import document

2008-07-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
e for a number of reasons. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpZbt9DA5wDi.pgp Description: PGP signature --

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Batch Import document

2008-07-24 Thread Mark H. Wood
wer. What is the process *today*? Write it down, please, so we can all use it, and so we can all help to improve it. One of the hallmarks of successful open-source development is that *everything* takes place in the open, including the evolution of processes. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Program

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Batch Import document

2008-07-24 Thread Mark H. Wood
this morning. How do contributors get copies of the current working document, so that they can know what they are contributing to? Where is this documented? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive&

Re: [Dspace-tech] Batch Import document

2008-07-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:04:42AM -0400, Bradley McLean wrote: > On Jul 24, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > > Well, I hope to contribute code, so of course I need to document my > > work. If I need to learn DocBook to do that, I'll learn it -- I want > > to kno

Re: [Dspace-tech] FW: U Handles and URLS in 1.5

2008-07-30 Thread Mark H. Wood
tml Sorry, I haven't tried this myself; I'm just passing along stuff I've seen while pursuing other questions. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact oppos

Re: [Dspace-tech] Eclipse and Maven

2008-08-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
ime watching seemingly endless rebuild cycles and torrents of errors until I figured out that the builder was mixing different working sets. When I got that straightened out, the builder stopped freaking out and I could get some work done. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ty

Re: [Dspace-tech] Author sorting

2008-08-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
experiment, completely unconnected with DSpace, and got the same result: "b" sorts before some "," and after others...or, more likely, the data are returned in entry order regardless of ORDER BY. I've tested both CHAR and VARCHAR and they both do this. INT columns are ordered pr

Re: [Dspace-tech] pstgresql password question

2008-08-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
ll out to PAM for authentication if you want to go that route. All of these are more complicated to configure than the methods mentioned above, and I wouldn't recommend them until you are more familiar with running PostgreSQL. Authentication is set up in the file pg_hba.conf in the database

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problems with modjk2 and dspace 1.5

2008-08-07 Thread Mark H. Wood
/foo/'. BTW mod_jk2 was abandoned some time ago and most of its important changes folded back into mod_jk. If you ever have trouble with mod_jk2 you'll have trouble finding help until you replace it. If you're running HTTPD 2.2.x you could also use mod_proxy + mod_proxy_ajp (I think) i

Re: [Dspace-tech] Postgres password expired

2008-08-11 Thread Mark H. Wood
7;psql' you use the command '\h' or '\h VERB'. The backslash is not exactly obvious, but that's how you give 'psql' one of its internal, non-SQL commands. '\q' exits. '\h' describes an SQL command. '\?' lists and briefly des

Re: [Dspace-tech] Not able to register as a new user

2008-08-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
"Internal System Error" means "the actual error message is elsewhere. Someone should inspect the DSpace and Tomcat logfiles to see what happened." Until that is done, it is difficult to help. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a softw

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace 1.5 cannot batch import

2008-08-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
to receive the material may be quite different. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpp3Tz

Re: [Dspace-tech] performance question

2008-08-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
The query optimizer is entirely within the DBMS. Rebuilding DSpace won't affect it. The queries will be unchanged; VACUUM ANALYZE just updates statistics within the database which the optimizer uses to decide, on the fly, how to execute a query most efficiently. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead S

Re: [Dspace-tech] Submission Error

2008-08-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
also will be fixed while 1_5_x continues to evolve. If you are running Maven over 1.5 release, you will not get any updates. (Well, Maven will update its *own* components all the time, like it or not, but that's a separate issue.) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Dspace-tech] Reusing bitstream sequence number

2008-08-15 Thread Mark H. Wood
plish? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpv5IYKb6Jai.pgp Description: PGP signature - Th

Re: [Dspace-tech] Changing DB Name ¿how?

2008-08-20 Thread Mark H. Wood
7;s > impossible to do that? db.uri completely specifies the type, location, and name of the database. In the first example you give: o the type is PostgreSQL; o the location is 'localhost' (127.0.0.1 or ::1) and the port is 5432; o the database is named 'dspace'.

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Question one: What's working and what isn't?

2008-08-20 Thread Mark H. Wood
thereof and post it to a mailing list or the wiki, so that it can be referred back to later or discovered by those not present in the chat. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opp

Re: [Dspace-tech] installation and data base connection problem

2008-08-21 Thread Mark H. Wood
/localhost:5432/dspace > > # JDBC Driver > db.driver = ${default.db.driver} > #db.driver = org.postgresql.Driver > > # Database username and password > #db.username = ${default.db.username} > #db.password = ${default.db.password} > #db.username = dspace ^ This is why it

Re: [Dspace-tech] Manakin and dspace.log (statistics)

2008-08-21 Thread Mark H. Wood
the meantime, you could read 2025998 to see where the log records should be produced by XMLUI, which might save you some time. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive"

Re: [Dspace-tech] Problem with headers/Footers

2008-08-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
s is a least-bad time for the stock stream to become discontinuous -- we have to work out new ways to do things anyway. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the e

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Week 3: Good Repository Software

2008-09-03 Thread Mark H. Wood
ion's information architecture, not just an isolated tool. It should use other components which are useful and strive to be useful to other components. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive&

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Week 3: Good Repository Software

2008-09-03 Thread Mark H. Wood
and which are easy to bind together make this approach workable. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpuhJcQDXskg.pgp Descri

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Week 4: Bitstream types

2008-09-08 Thread Mark H. Wood
IL to make a neat whole of it). This is really an extension of what we do in advising depositors about file formats that work well for long-term preservation. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" h

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] Week 4: Bitstream types

2008-09-08 Thread Mark H. Wood
Following myself up again, I don't know what I *would* recommend as a repository for AV files. Maybe we have an opportunity here. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the

Re: [Dspace-tech] css bitstreams

2008-09-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
dge the changes and implement any that seem appropriate. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgpwlcWdSWFji.pgp D

Re: [Dspace-tech] css bitstreams

2008-09-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
at happens if a site has already inserted a "new" type locally? What happens if a site has locally modified an updated type? Does the step error out? Do people panic when they see DB badness messages? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a softwar

Re: [Dspace-tech] assetstore across multiple partitions

2008-09-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
at new submissions go at any particular time. What do you want to accomplish by doing this? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite. pgp2KcB6BXvtg.pgp Descriptio

Re: [Dspace-tech] assetstore across multiple partitions

2008-09-16 Thread Mark H. Wood
om time to time change assetstore.incoming to the number of the assetstore you want new submissions to go into. Each change to assetstore.incoming will require restarting DSpace. DSpace will only fill one assetstore at a time. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically wh

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