[Koha-devel] Z3950 problems with fresh install of Koha 2.0.0RC3

[paul POULAIN]

William Holt wrote:

> Hello Paul,
>
> As I said, I'm very ignorant of libraries and perl so forgive
> me for my stupidity!
>
>> you probably forgot to enter an author, a title or an isbn BEFORE 
>> clicking on z3950 search.
>
> The two screens in question are
> cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbooks.pl
> and
> cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl
> right? 

yes.

> So in the addbooks.pl if I type a title and press go this
> title does not carry over to the addbiblio.pl and I need
> to re-enter the book title and then push z3950 hyperlink?
> To enter the book title I click on the [1] hyperlink, correct? 

yes.

> If I do this it still doesn't work, I get a new
> frame (window) with Still ?? requests to go. Do I
> need to reset something? 

that's what you should have.
The ?? becoming 4,3,2,1, then disappear. The number shows how many z3950 
server have not answered.
see below to understand why ?? stay as it.

> 2 notes :
>
>> * yes i agree it should be checked and not return an error. Enter a 
>> major bug in bugs.koha.org pls.
>> * yes it's poor that the isbn/title entered the screen before is not 
>> kept. Enter a normal bug in bugs.koha.org
>
> I've never done this before but I'm willing to try.  You
> are asking me to enter these two items as bugs, right? 

yes.

> Finally, one other issue.
> I'm using freeBSD and it appears that the syntax of the
> "su" command is different.
> In the script z3950-daemon-launch.sh
> su -s /bin/sh -c $KohaZ3950Shell - $RunAsUser &
> doesn't seem to work.
> Instead I am using
> sudo -u www ./z3950-daemon-shell.sh
> Could that be my problem, and is there a way to make
> this so it can work on linux as well as freeBSD? 

I don't know. I'm not a shell specialist.
to check, you can :
* open a console.
* launch ./processz3950queue in the console.
* see what happends. When a search starts, you should see a lot of infos 
saying "search started on XX server", "XX results to retrieve from YY 
server"...

> Best Regards and have a great weekend! 

Same for you

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)