-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Hedges [mailto:shedges@skemotah.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:34 AM To: Bruffey, Mark Cc: koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Koha-devel] request bulkmarcimport assistance Mark, I could be wrong about this (and if I am, I hope someone corrects me quickly!), but if you have two installs, I assume you have two different paths to Koha: something like /usr/local/koha and /usr/local/koha2. ### This is correct. This gives me two bulkmarcimport.pl files, each in a different directory. So if you change the PERL5LIB environment variable accordingly, you should be able to control where the data goes, because Koha will grab the appropriate "context" from the path you specify. You might do: # export PERL5LIB=/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules to load records in one install, and # export PERL5LIB=/usr/local/koha2/intranet/modules to load records into the other install. ### Or, perhaps I could place the correct ../modules statement in each of my two separate bulkmarcimport.pl scripts, and run the desired script for the desired database? However, it appears to me that when bulkmarcimport.pl runs, even if the modules directory is identified correctly, something is causing the data to go to /var/lib/mysql/"anydir" whereas I want it to go somewhere else of my choosing. How do I set that path and how do I enable koha to locate it? You'd need to take out any "use lib "/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules";" statement that you might have added to bulkmarcimport.pl Stephen Bruffey, Mark said:

Thanks for your assistance Stephen. The routine ran fine, but, since I

have two installs I am trying to keep separate, I need a way to designate where the data will go. It appears that the data path defaults to /var/lib/mysql/variablename. I need to designate two separate data paths, preferably not as a subdir of /var/lib/mysql, and

have my two instances of KOHA be able to find the right set of data. Is this possible? If so, what do I need to do to implement this change? Sincere thanks, Mark

-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Hedges [mailto:shedges@skemotah.com] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 8:08 AM To: Bruffey, Mark Cc: koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] request bulkmarcimport assistance

Mark, could it be that your perl can't find the Koha C4 directory? (Although that usually produces a different error.) Try this:

Before you run "./bulkmarcimport.pl", export the directory where C4 resides: # export PERL5LIB=/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules (that's the normal directory for most installs, change it if yours is different.)

Or if you use bulkmarcimport a lot, add this line to the list of "use"

statements at the beginning of the script: use lib "/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules";

Stephen

Bruffey, Mark said:

...

I'm getting the following error when attempting to run bulkmarcimport.pl:

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./bulkmarcimport.pl line 10.

It seems like I had a similar problem when I imported records some months ago, but, of course, I do not appear to have documented the solution to it . . . .

Sincere thanks for any assistance.

Mark

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