Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Possible Bugs in Circulate.pm (1.6)

2010-01-13 Thread Dan Wells
indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open source license(s) involved. Signed-off-by: Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu On 1/13/2010 at 10:03 AM, Bill Erickson erick...@esilibrary.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Database Error with /cgi-bin/usr_group-setup.cgi

2010-01-10 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Bradley, Glad you got it working. Did you end up needing to use the IndexData repository? Just curious. As for the usr_group-setup.cgi, in my experience it doesn't work any more. There is a newer interface to this in the Staff Client admin menu, so I think that is your best bet going

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Possible Bugs in Circulate.pm (1.6)

2010-01-08 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, With the help of Jason and Dan S., it was determined that an error our library was getting when trying to circulate items with a status of 'Reserves' only happens when using in-db circ rules. After some troubleshooting, I found at least two separate issues are at the root of this.

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Administration Questions

2010-01-07 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Here are a few basic question for other Evergreen admins. First, what is the relative safety of restarting the various major stack components (router, Perl, C) during business hours? Which, if any, are likely to result in information loss? Second, what is a good log rotation

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Administration Questions

2010-01-07 Thread Dan Wells
robert.soulli...@mohawkcollege.ca Tel: 905-575-1212 X3936 libr...@mohawk Connect * Learn * Succeed brain.mohawkcollege.ca -Original Message- From: open-ils-dev-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Wells

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Successful Migration

2009-12-21 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I am happy to officially report that Hekman Library at Calvin College has successfully migrated to Evergreen! Circulation functions, our last major piece, went live on Friday afternoon with nary a serious incident. It is still very much a work in progress, but we now have no doubt

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] LDAP Authentication Ideas

2009-12-03 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Dan, Thanks for bringing this up again. I would love to get some feedback on this code, especially considering we plan to go live with it in less than a month :o Dan On 12/2/2009 at 5:21 PM, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: A question about LDAP authentication just came up on IRC

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Trivial Patch - ue_config.js

2009-12-02 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Working at a college with a large Dutch population, we have an extremely large number of last names with spaces in them (Van X, Vander X, De X, etc.). Unfortunately, the user editor would not allow them. The attached patch fixes that, and I also believe it provides the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] direct_ingest.pl, biblio_fingerprint.js and Unicode chars

2009-12-02 Thread Dan Wells
the overall correctness of these records! Dan On 11/30/2009 at 7:25 PM, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: 2009/11/30 Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu: Hi Dan, I am still listening, and would be quite happy to see this resolved somehow. I also want to note that the marc2bre.pl changed back

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re: direct_ingest.pl, biblio_fingerprint.js and Unicode chars

2009-11-30 Thread Dan Wells
Hi Dan, I am still listening, and would be quite happy to see this resolved somehow. I also want to note that the marc2bre.pl changed back to using composed characters here: http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/changeset/12985/trunk/Open-ILS/src/extras/import/marc2bre.pl When doing my lastest

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] MFHD Touch Up Patch

2009-11-25 Thread Dan Wells
with it, including my sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open source license(s) involved. Signed-off-by: Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu MFHD_touch_up.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] MFHD Patch - Third Try

2009-11-21 Thread Dan Wells
. Signed-off-by: Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] MFHD Patch - Third Try

2009-11-21 Thread Dan Wells
Hello David, As another alternative, if you don't want to bother with installing OpenSRF, it seems likely that this OpenSRF dependency will be removed soon for portability reasons anyway. Because generate_predictions() is the end-of-the-line (so to speak), you can safely comment out from

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] MFHD Contribution - Non-whitespace Patches

2009-11-13 Thread Dan Wells
(including all personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open source license(s) involved. Signed-off-by: Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu On 11/13/2009 at 10:17 AM, David Fiander da

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] MFHD Contribution Preparation - Whitespace Patch

2009-11-12 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Sometime later today or tomorrow I intend to submit a fairly extensive patch which adds new functionality to the MFHD components in EG. In preparation of that, attached are some whitespace-only patches of the files involved. The files in question were run through 'perltidy -ce' as

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] LDAP Authentication Ideas

2009-10-23 Thread Dan Wells
be wonderful. I would prefer it if there isn't a separate password in Open-ILS, as we have a lot of centralized services that authenticate against LDAP and it would be so nice to allow Evergreen to do the same. -Vicki On Oct 12, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Dan Wells wrote: Hello all, I am in the process

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] 1.6 Bugs

2009-10-13 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I have been working in a fresh 1.6RC install for the last couple weeks and found the following behaviors which I believe to be bugs: 1. The cgi-bin version of the User Group Hierarchy Setup (/cgi-bin/usr_group-setup.cgi) is still listed but doesn't work. The staff client

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** ***SPAM*** Re: 1.6 RC1 (and 1.4 and probably before)subject searching

2009-10-12 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Dan, Working at a library hoping to migrate straight to 1.6, I think it would be great if this made it in there. I agree that the current subject search feels broken. Dan On 10/12/2009 at 10:58 AM, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: 2009/9/17 Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net: The

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] LDAP Authentication Ideas

2009-10-12 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I am in the process of implementing a basic LDAP authentication layer for my library for the catalog 'My Account' features. I currently have two working proof-of-concepts and am seeking input about further development of one or the other. The overall approach is common to both and

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Taking the Plunge, Org Units

2009-09-03 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Well, after a few years of hanging around and helping where I could, I am pleased to announce that Calvin College is now officially committed to making the switch to Evergreen! At one time it seemed that it would never happen, and suddenly it seems to be happening too fast :) We

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] OpenSRF and Ubuntu 9.04

2009-07-29 Thread Dan Wells
Wow, great work everyone. Bill, I have tested trunk on 9.04 with ejabberd 2.0.3 and it worked without a hitch. I have not gotten as far as installing the OpenILS services yet, but the basic OpenSRF setup now starts properly and functions properly with the math service. Thanks for taking care

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] cannot see any data on opac

2009-06-23 Thread Dan Wells
Hello, If you haven't already, try this: http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:importing:bibrecordss[]=import#making_electronic_resources_visible_in_the_catalogue By default, records with no items attached do not show up in the catalog. DW Gloria Sena s...@wrlc.org

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Debugging OpenSRF installation

2009-06-19 Thread Dan Wells
install before charging ahead :) DW Dan Scott deni...@gmail.com 6/19/2009 6:55 AM 2009/6/18 Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu: Hello Victoria, The default Evergreen install has many services running on the public interface, so I think you will be fine. In fact, that is almost certainly the reason

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Debugging OpenSRF installation

2009-06-18 Thread Dan Wells
doubt that). Victoria, try doubling the service line as I have, restart the stack, and see if the public math interface works for you. Good luck, DW Victoria Bush vb...@ilstu.edu 6/16/2009 10:59 AM On Jun 15, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Dan Wells wrote: Hello Victoria, I kinda hate to suggest

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Debugging OpenSRF installation

2009-06-12 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Victoria, Though I think it is designed to test a full Evergreen install, running the settings-tester.pl script may help identify problems with just OpenSRF as well. To quote the wiki: As the opensrf user, run the settings-tester.pl script to see if it finds any system configuration

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] OPAC Search - Current and Future Directions

2009-05-27 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I have been tracking Evergreen for several years now in the hopes of using it to replace our aging Sirsi system. After giving it a serious amount of consideration, we have come to realize that the primary thing we dislike about our current system is the OPAC. It basically stunk

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] JSON Character Encoding Problem (direct_ingest.pl)

2009-05-12 Thread Dan Wells
Hello, I am getting the following error on just a handful of records when running direct_ingest.pl: Couldn't process record: invalid character encountered while parsing JSON string, at character offset 115 [\x{8}derschaft],,q...] at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/OpenSRF/Utils/JSON.pm line 126.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Postgresql Load Speed

2009-05-12 Thread Dan Wells
the indexes on metabib.real_full_rec allowed the load to finish in just a few hours. DW Mike Rylander mrylan...@gmail.com 5/5/2009 11:45 AM On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Dan Wells d...@calvin.edu wrote: Hello all, Well, summer is almost here, and in the academic world, that means more time

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Postgresql Load Speed

2009-05-05 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, Well, summer is almost here, and in the academic world, that means more time for side projects like Evergreen :) After failing in years past for various reasons, we are determined to load our entire catalog into Evergreen in order to get a realistic evaluation environment. Having

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] problem regarding bulk imporing

2008-10-29 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Vijay, A few things to note: 1) Last I knew, MARC::File::XML does not support namespace prefixes (marc: ). You can tell MarcEdit to leave them out by selecting Tools-Preferences, select the MARCEngine tab, then uncheck Use Namespace and apply. 2) If you are not trying to preserve

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Bugs in marc2bre.pl?

2008-09-29 Thread Dan Wells
it certainly wouldn't be the first time. Thanks, DW Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/27/2008 4:44 PM On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Dan Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have been playing around with record loads of various shapes and sizes over the last week or two, and have come

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Simplifying Ubuntu install documentation (was:Installing on Ubuntu7.10 - ejabber problem)

2008-07-28 Thread Dan Wells
as possible. Thanks, DW Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/26/2008 11:52 AM Hi Dan Wells: 2008/7/26 Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Faiz: 2008/7/26 Faiz Ishaq [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello! Totally new to Evergreen, I am trying to get it to run on Ubuntu. Started with Edubuntu 7.10 install and carried out

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] problem during Evergreen installation

2008-07-22 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Vijay, 1 2 You can put the downloaded/extracted files anywhere where your user has write permissions and which is convenient for you. The wiki page suggests /eg-srcs within your home directory. It appears as though you have done this, so maybe I am misunderstanding the questions? 3

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] problem during evergreen installation

2008-07-21 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Vijay, From the looks of it you have mistaken the Evergreen/Ubuntu virtual machine download for the Evergreen source download. The link to the latest source is: http://open-ils.org/downloads/Evergreen-ILS-1.2.2.3.tar.gz as linked on: http://open-ils.org/downloads.php under Evergreen

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Postgres speed issues

2008-07-02 Thread Dan Wells
Dan Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/30/2008 9:40 AM Hello all, I have been spending the last few weeks trying out different methods for loading a batch of around 100,000 records. I have had varying degrees of success with getting the load to work, including copy level information, but the last few loads

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Postgres speed issues

2008-06-30 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I have been spending the last few weeks trying out different methods for loading a batch of around 100,000 records. I have had varying degrees of success with getting the load to work, including copy level information, but the last few loads seem to have somehow developed a search

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] RE: Postgres speed issues

2008-06-30 Thread Dan Wells
Please hold any replies, I think I may have cracked it. I will report back. Thanks! DW

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Bugs in marc2bre.pl?

2008-06-27 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, I have been playing around with record loads of various shapes and sizes over the last week or two, and have come to the conclusion that marc2bre.pl is a bit discombobulated in its current state. It boils down to a consistent state of confusion within the code between the record id

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Stuck on Evergreen client authentication

2008-06-23 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Dale, I am sorry this problem still plagues you. Your OpenSRF log has no errors at all in it, so it seems the problem is occurring at a higher level than that. My hunch would be possibly something amiss with Apache. Are there any significant entries in your httpd error log? Are you

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] SPAM: Error loading libdbi driver

2008-06-17 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Frances, Sorry, I did not run into this problem. I did do my LD path stuff differently, though. Here is what I did: 1) Create a file named /etc/ld.so.conf.d/evergreen.conf with the following lines in it: /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/dbd /openils/lib 2) To make this ld setting

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen Staff Client login network/server failure

2008-06-10 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Charlene, I have definitely seen a similar JSON error when I left out a couple Perl module dependancies. Try running this script: http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/src/support-scripts/settings-tester.pl and let us know the results, or simply try to install any

RE: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] FW: Problem with autogen

2008-06-06 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Frances, The settings-tester script is a HUGE help when getting started. Just one small tip: if you are running the latest 1.2.2 release tarball, it still has an opensrf_core.xml.example file with a deprecated domains tag around the first domain tag in the file. This will cause the

RE: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG client login error

2008-04-30 Thread Dan Wells
PROTECTED] 4/30/2008 8:43 AM Dan, I followed the directions below but still got error messages when doing the finalize step. The logs are attached. Thanks for the help. Tom Patterson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Wells [EMAIL

RE: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG client login error

2008-04-29 Thread Dan Wells
:osrf_router_main.c:83:] Router adding trusted server: epworth-eg router 2008-04-29 07:34:00 [INFO:15935:osrf_router_main.c:86:] Router adding trusted client: epworth-eg Thanks, Tom Patterson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Wells

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] libdbi-drivers 0.8.3-1 compilation configuration bug

2008-04-29 Thread Dan Wells
Hello all, After some recent mucking around, I seem to have found a bug in the configure script for the relatively recent libdbi-drivers version 0.8.3-1. Basically, they made linking against libdbi the default option (a good thing around here), but in the process, they broke the old

RE: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG client login error

2008-04-28 Thread Dan Wells
the 127.0.1.1 as the localhost. Does this make a difference on where memcache is listening? Tom Patterson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 11:11 AM To: open-ils-dev

RE: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG client login error

2008-04-28 Thread Dan Wells
]/opensrf.settings IS NOT CONNECTED TO THE NETWORK!!! Loc.: 103 OpenSRF::Utils::SettingsClient Loc.: /openils/lib/perl5/OpenSRF/Utils/SettingsClient.pm Time: Mon Apr 28 14:28:09 2008 Done Tom Patterson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Wells

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG client login error

2008-04-25 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Tom, I think a bug may have cropped up in the Ubuntu install instructions. I cannot be sure if this has changed, but it seems that memcached does not start up automatically when first installed. It should start on the next system boot, but short of that, you can start it most simply as

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Add memory vmware image

2008-04-17 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Ryan, This is what I would try. First, make sure your VM is shut down and not suspended. Then, in your VM's directory you should find a .vmx file. Open the file in a text editor and find the line which starts with memsize, then change it to read (in the case of one gigabyte):

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Installing a Evergreen System

2008-04-16 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Ryan, I haven't been very active on this list in recent months, but I am currently preparing an update to my Ubuntu VMWare image using Ubuntu 7.10 and Evergreen 1.2.1 (just in time for 8.04, I know :) . Anyway, I still try to keep up to date install instructions at

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] restoring evergreen to an empty state

2008-03-14 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Nella, I don't think it is time to throw in the towel yet. What are the contents of your .srfsh.xml file? You may want to re-copy the example file ( cp /openils/conf/srfsh.xml.example ~/.srfsh.xml ) and then edit it to match your ejabber domain/username/password and add a proper

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Outreach and trustee groups

2007-10-22 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Pierre, Thanks for pointing this out. Step #23 is fine and correct but Step #25 had not been updated to show the new command syntax for starting/stopping the system. I have added a New Step #25 to http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=installing_evergreen_1.2.x_on_ubuntu_7.04 which

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re:RE: Ejabberd and Ubuntu

2007-10-20 Thread Dan Wells
Pierre, This is great news, congrats. Seems there was something in that old config file that your machine didn't like after all. Even though you have it working, I will probably still poke at your old config file on Monday and see if I can figure out what the problem was. What can I say, I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re:RE: Ejabberd and Ubuntu

2007-10-18 Thread Dan Wells
Pierre, I am glad (yet also amazed) that the case change fixed your registration problem. I do not think you really needed to go through and change all your other files and settings, but it shouldn't hurt if it was done accurately. As for your recent issues, you almost certainly have some

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re:RE: Ejabberd and Ubuntu

2007-10-17 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Pierre, Well, this is getting interesting. This might sound totally bananas, and I am not sure why it would matter, but I think the capital 'TI' in your machine name is causing the problems. Domain names are typically 'down-cased' internally as they are supposed to be case insensitive.

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re: Ejabberd and Ubuntu (Dan Wells)

2007-10-15 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Pierre, I am glad you got ejabberd to work. As for your current question, the best answer I can give would be to read the Notice (esp. if using Ubuntu Server): near the top of the documentation page you linked. The most pertinent sentence is the first, which state Each place in these

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Ejabberd and Ubuntu

2007-10-12 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Pierre, From what I see there are a couple issues at play. First, ejabberdctl will always give the 'nodedown' message if not run with sudo. Try 'sudo ejabberdctl status' and see if you get better results. My guess is the server is running properly, you just don't know it yet :) You may

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] autogen.sh barfing on opac_visible?

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Wells
Hello John, Sorry for not helping out sooner, I somehow missed the fact that you were on Ubuntu. I try to do my best to help people through those instructions. The other Dan's advice is good, definitely recheck step #18 and make sure it has been followed completely, then see if the command

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Install 1.2 rc2, can not Finalize the OPAC

2007-07-31 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Michael, sudo -u opensrf ./autogen.sh ../conf/bootstrap.conf I am concerned to see a mention of bootstrap.conf in your email (though you also have the correct command below it?). This file is no longer used in the 1.2 branch. Please make sure you are following the 1.2 instruction

RE: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Newbie install question

2007-07-18 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Karen, I'd like to start by lavishing extreme amounts of praise for your extremely clear and thorough set of instructions. Thanks, but I cannot take all the credit. About half of the instructions were completed by someone else (Dan Scott, I think, before he jumped the Ubuntu ship for

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