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07:26 mrpeters @later tell jrshaw I don't think there is a newer VM available but installing OpenSRF/Evergreen is very straightforward with the great documentation available these days.  You could create your own VM quite quickly.
07:26 pinesol_green` mrpeters: The operation succeeded.
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09:14 paxed in http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.​3/_recent_staff_searches_2.html the resencd searches list in the image show only the actual search term, none of the depth() or subject: or others. is that a config option or has it changed?
09:15 paxed s/recencd/recent/
09:16 paxed (or is the library that image is from using some local changes?)
09:22 Dyrcona Always a fun way to start your morning: Could not authenticate with Jabber server
09:24 Dyrcona Ah. Stupid network changes... I believe I'm going to have to use -l from now on.
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09:32 rjackson-isl dbs++ for response to max children yesterday - the errors/warning are gone from the 1 brick of 5 sip servers where opensrf.xml was modified
09:33 Dyrcona rjackson-isl: Yeah, we found several of the defaults were too low for our environment initially.
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09:34 rjackson-isl Ours I think are from growth pains - they were marked higher than default
09:38 mrpeters rjackson-isl: what'd you find?
09:38 mrpeters they needed some increasing?
09:38 rjackson-isl cstore was running out of children
09:39 mrpeters ah, wonder if thats what caused your resource starvation yesterday
09:39 mrpeters nice work
09:39 mrpeters hows your system running today?  loads down?
09:39 rjackson-isl work in progress more like!
09:39 mrpeters well either way, good catch
09:39 rjackson-isl right - the holds targeter is caugt up as well - same issue on utility server
09:39 rfrasur (it doesn't help that our isp is giving us issues)
09:40 mrpeters out of cstores on utility?
09:40 rjackson-isl right
09:40 rjackson-isl bumped in config last night
09:40 mrpeters interesting...how many libraries added recently?
09:40 rjackson-isl not many - but suspect rfid devices and increased SIP usage as well
09:40 rfrasur rjackson-isl
09:41 mrpeters ah, yeah
09:41 rjackson-isl plus 260 g db and 256 g memory
09:41 rfrasur rjackson-isl++ #even
09:41 rfrasur mrpeters: a bunch of libs just recently added freegal
09:41 mrpeters rjackson-isl: yeah, i heard that
09:41 rjackson-isl adjusting the rest of the configs for SIP tonight
09:41 csharp okay - so I'm back to working on bug 1190279 regarding the ubuntu targets...
09:41 pinesol_green` Launchpad bug 1190279 in Evergreen "Modularize Makefile.install" (affected: 1, heat: 6) [Wishlist,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1190279
09:42 csharp apparently, the order of deb vs. cpan installation matters (unless I'm overlooking something, which is very likely)
09:43 rfrasur (seriously Comcast? you can't get someone here before Friday?  how much do we pay you?)
09:43 csharp so when I run the modular version for ubuntu-precise (see http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working​/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/​user/csharp/ubuntu-per-distro-makefile ) and cpan installation craps out on SOAP::Lite (IIRC)
09:44 csharp the deb lists between the modular version and the current Makefile.install are identical, but the modular version installs all debs first
09:45 rfrasur (that's what I thought...see you this afternoon :p)
09:45 csharp the CPAN list for the modular version (based on berick's wheezy target) includes Safe, which is not in the current Makefile.install
09:45 csharp but those are the only differences I see
09:45 csharp Ubuntu 10.04 worked fine in my test
09:51 berick csharp: odd, maybe the debs are installing a version of something some other cpan module doesn't like.
09:51 berick that when done in reverse, cpan never has a chance to complain
09:52 berick because it just installs its own dependencies, finding none already there
09:52 mrpeters rfrasur: business class?
09:53 csharp berick: that's my working theory too
09:54 csharp I'll run it again and pastebin the output - hopefully others will see something I'm missing ;-)
09:54 berick csharp++
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09:54 mrpeters rjackson-isl: you guys should give some thought to doing a pg_dump > pg_restore to see if that clears out some of the cruft in the database from migrations and stuff
09:54 mrpeters i also tried to sweet talk dbs into updating his blog article on heating the cache to include some of the new tables of interest ;)
09:55 rfrasur mrpeters: sorry, yes.
09:55 mrpeters man, they should be out there same day
09:55 mrpeters i would be barking hard
09:55 rfrasur mrpeters: they'll be here at noon
09:56 mrpeters :) nice work
09:56 * rfrasur barks loudly when necessary
09:56 bshum mrpeters: I recently got about 20+ GB of space back last Sunday by deleting old auditor table contents out of copy, call number, and biblio. It made me happy.
09:56 mrpeters bshum: yeah, for sure...i think rjackson-isl may alreayd have a mechanism for purging old auditor stuff
09:56 bshum mrpeters: And then we dropped some old migration schemas with legacy data and got another 10 GB or so, and that was nice too.
09:56 rfrasur mrpeters: I should say, it's fantastic service when it works which is very nearly all of the time.
09:56 mrpeters yeah, same here rfrasur...i have it as well at home
09:56 bshum mrpeters: Ah, that's a big database :D
09:57 * rfrasur is mildly infatuated w/ real broadband - another downside of living in the country (along w/ tractors, mice, dust and meth)
09:58 mrpeters i <3 my comcast -- http://stage.results.speedtest.c​omcast.net/result/275493412.png
09:59 csharp @nick pinesol_green
09:59 pinesol_green` csharp: Error: You don't have the admin capability. If you think that you should have this capability, be sure that you are identified before trying again. The 'whoami' command can tell you if you're identified.
09:59 csharp @quote add * rfrasur is mildly infatuated w/ real broadband - another downside of living in the country (along w/ tractors, mice, dust and meth)
09:59 pinesol_green` csharp: The operation succeeded.  Quote #60 added.
09:59 * rfrasur squelches real feelings of jealousy
09:59 bshum I got it.
09:59 csharp bshum++
09:59 mrpeters hehe rfrasur...whats yours look like?
10:00 csharp @quote random
10:00 pinesol_green csharp: Quote #47: "< Dyrcona> The latest Perl is dying post I've seen is in a discussion thread in the Emacs community on G+." (added by csharp at 03:11 PM, March 27, 2013)
10:00 rfrasur how do I check it using the same thing?  just speedtest.comcast.net?
10:01 rfrasur and did you go tthrough chicago?
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10:01 rfrasur http://stage.results.speedtest.c​omcast.net/result/275494462.png
10:02 mrpeters not bad
10:02 mrpeters yes, through chicago
10:02 rfrasur yours is better
10:03 rfrasur (stupid obsolete infrastructure)
10:07 rfrasur good to know that I can check speed there though...since I'll need it for annual report (and it's better than advertised...just not as awesome as 100+ mbps)
10:10 mrpeters yeah, im on their Extreme package, its like $99.95 a month but Emerald covers it for me so I have a reliable and fast connection.
10:10 mrpeters they recently doubled it from 50Mbps to 100Mbps
10:10 Dyrcona Lovely.... None of my bookmarks or anything work for my development VM from the LAN.....I have to use the IP address....
10:10 rfrasur hmm, I'll ask about that.  We pay just over $100...but that includes a static IP and a few other things.
10:11 mrpeters yeah they'll getcha for the static IP
10:11 Dyrcona Stupid NAT!
10:12 csharp @blame NAT
10:12 pinesol_green csharp: NAT stole csharp's ice cream!
10:12 rfrasur it's not terribly bad...I think $18 or something a month.  Honestly, our internet isn't bad for an institution...and generally as/more reliable...and as/more fast....er
10:12 Dyrcona There's a way to configure it so it works, but the CISCO configuration agent refuses to run on my computers.....
10:12 Dyrcona I would rather have an OpenBSD firewall, but I'm out voted on that front.
10:12 csharp cisco--
10:12 rfrasur (at home - we have wireless...the new crap sold out of the back of a truck along with oranges and stump removal services)
10:14 * paxed thought "stump removal? don't you need prosthe ... ooohh."
10:14 rfrasur paxed++
10:15 rfrasur my work here is done
10:15 paxed (not that i think there's any illegal surgieries done in the back of trucks over there ...)
10:18 rfrasur paxed: one never knows
10:29 rfrasur oh man...I love it when my past self was smarter than my current one.
10:29 * rfrasur thanks past self
10:34 paxed hm. looks like i'm going to be temporarily laid off.
10:35 paxed 3 weeks sometime between Aug and the end of the year.
10:39 rfrasur paxed: reason?
10:39 rjackson-isl sorry - was not following - yes mrpeters we still have the audit purge monthly in place and it dropped about 20g on the 1st
10:39 mrpeters awesome
10:40 mrpeters maybe need to do it even more often
10:40 mrpeters im not sure that box can take anymore RAM
10:40 mrpeters unless you bought all new RAM in larger quantities
10:40 rjackson-isl and the migration schemas are dropped regularly after a migration is proven to be sane
10:41 paxed rfrasur: in short, my employer needs to save a lot of money this year due to their largest owner (the city) saying so.
10:41 rfrasur paxed: is it possible for them to allow you to pick when to take the layoff?
10:43 paxed yes
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10:49 mrpeters sorry for your misfortune paxed
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10:50 paxed mrpeters: i'm taking it as "o hay, moar vacay time"
10:51 mrpeters good :)
10:51 * rfrasur ponders three weeks off...would it be better to have it contiguous or a bit here and there?
10:52 rfrasur I think I might find that I enjoyed my own time TOO much if it was all at the same time.
10:53 paxed i'm saving some of my vacay (and "vacay") until winter... last winter i spent helping a friend run dog sled rides for tourists.
10:54 rfrasur you do realize just how cool that is, I hope
10:54 * rfrasur misses snow....REAL snow...and FUN winter
10:54 rfrasur Indiana is good for just about everything but winter which is just ugly and sad
10:55 paxed http://bilious.alt.org/~paxed/img/dogs_jatuni.jpg
10:55 Dyrcona rfrasur: Considering he does this in the North Karelia, it is down right frigid.
10:55 rfrasur Cold I don't mind so long as there's slow and a lot of it.
10:56 rfrasur hmm s/slow/snow
10:56 rfrasur and maybe some slow too
10:56 * rfrasur shrugs
10:56 Dyrcona sloe gin....
10:56 rfrasur those are cool dogs
10:56 rfrasur hah!  cold dogs
10:56 Dyrcona I see what you did there.
10:57 rfrasur multitalented with the word play and all that...er.  okay, it was lame.
10:58 rfrasur It that right up against Russia?
10:58 rfrasur huh, tis
10:58 paxed rfrasur: in that picture, that's Sweden on the other side of the river
10:59 Dyrcona Oh, my mistake, then. I thought you were in the North Karelia.
10:59 paxed i am.
10:59 Dyrcona OK, then. I just assumed that is where the sledding took place, then.
11:00 paxed :)
11:00 paxed http://goo.gl/maps/5Fl7r where i am. where the picture was taken: http://goo.gl/maps/1H3Y1
11:02 Dyrcona Either way, that says "cold" to me. ;)
11:02 rfrasur meh...you just need insulation and fire
11:03 rfrasur and snow shoes are helpful (and cross country skis)
11:03 paxed triple glazing is good.
11:03 rfrasur triple_glazing++
11:03 rfrasur truth
11:05 rfrasur so, I have a question about Xulrunner...not a technical one though.
11:06 rfrasur First, am I right in assuming that it was initially developed by Mozilla and has something to do with Firefox?
11:06 rfrasur (hah...A question...a series of questions)
11:06 paxed yes
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11:07 rfrasur Next, did I read correctly that they're going to phase out support for it or updating?
11:09 paxed not really, as firefox runs on top of it. but, iirc, in newest versions they've turned off remote XUL (which EG relies on).
11:09 rfrasur so, does that mean that EG will need to rely on something else?
11:10 rfrasur and, if so, is there something else yet?
11:10 paxed assuming we start using the newer xulrunner, then something has to be done about it.
11:11 paxed in theory we could always fork xulrunner
11:11 paxed (but that wouldn't be practical)
11:11 rfrasur but then we'd need more developers to deal with that...or demand more from the ones we have
11:11 rfrasur right?
11:11 paxed yup
11:11 phasefx tsbere already worked around the no remote xul limitation, with a hack creating an oils:// protocol, but it's still going to be a battle going forward trying to stay on the latest version
11:12 Dyrcona So, we ditch xulrunner. I think that is the only viable long term solution.
11:12 jeff that is the approach which i am interested in spending my time on.
11:12 rfrasur Dyrcona: and do what?  is there a logical other way to go?
11:12 phasefx I think so, have to either ride the mainstream wave or pick a more stable platform
11:12 rfrasur jeff: the ditching approach?
11:13 jeff the orderly transition to more web-based staff interfaces.
11:13 paxed rfrasur: rewrite the xulrunnery parts in tpac/dojo/whatever
11:13 rfrasur not to oversimplify...but that seems like a fairly huge undertaking
11:14 jeff there are known challenges, which have been discussed with some alternatives proposed -- such as offline support (html5 offline apps, local storage) and receipt printing (local helper application to handle printing, and added support for network receipt printers)
11:14 Dyrcona rfrasur: Whatever choice is made it will be a huge undertaking. Even sticking with xulrunner.
11:14 Dyrcona Right now, we can really go past XulRunner 14 without major work to the code.
11:14 Dyrcona s/can/can't/
11:15 Dyrcona The farther from 14 you get, the more work is needed.
11:15 rfrasur Dyrcona: if it's a constant race to keep up with xulrunner...seems like spitting into the wind.  At least from my "no-knowledge" standpoint
11:16 rfrasur and an expensive race at that
11:16 Dyrcona rfrasur: Right, that's why alternatives to xulrunner are being sought.
11:16 phasefx rfrasur: and if we don't try to keep up with xulrunner and stick with xulrunner 14; it'll eventually bitrot as the environment around it evolves
11:17 rfrasur phasefx: yes, of course.
11:17 rfrasur Dyrcona: is there any kind of timeline as far as when a decision will HAVE to be made?
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11:18 paxed not really. i'd guess we could coast along for a year or two just fine.
11:18 jrshaw @mrpeters 7:26:15 Sorry to disappoint but I have to disagree with you. The install is not “straightforwardâ€� and the documentation is not “greatâ€� according to my personal experience and a friendly local Linux users group who had the opportunity on Saturday (6/29) to pour over an attempted but unsuccessful install. That being said, how does one improve this? Notice I didn’t say fix. For to those who use this everyday itâ
11:18 pinesol_green jrshaw: I see nothing, I know nothing!
11:18 jrshaw I from the outside am finding the overlooked holes. I want to help the project out. I want to contribute and work out the rough edges that otherwise would force me and others to look elsewhere. I know in my heart this is a sound package when running. But for someone without the knowledge and expertise of experience, there is a disconnect with the installation documentation. So let’s work together to improve upon that.
11:18 jrshaw So give me some patient and sage guidance on how I can work within the system to contribute my “lack of knowledge” to improve the online install documentation so that others behind me who are just kicking the tires--don’t quickly run into roadblocks that dissuade them from Open Source in General and OpenSRF/Evergreen specifically.
11:18 jeff_ jrshaw: your message was truncated at "who use this everyday it"
11:19 jrshaw Rats, I was trying to keep them just under the limit...
11:19 jrshaw ... Notice I didn’t say fix. For to those who use this everyday it’s not broken.
11:20 rfrasur we know :-)
11:20 jrshaw So how can I help?
11:20 rfrasur jrshaw++ #for wanting to help and articulating it
11:20 rfrasur have you done a successful install, jrshaw?
11:21 jrshaw Newbie here. Please translate:  jrshaw++ #for
11:21 jeff_ jrshaw: The installation of OpenSRF and Evergreen, while it has improved greatly over the years, can still be challenging. If you're interested in helping, specific feedback is helpful, as are contributions along the lines of changes or patches. How you contribute depends a lot on what you are comfortable with.
11:21 rfrasur you got karma points :D
11:23 jeff_ jrshaw: $variable++ is a common programming convention for saying "take this variable and increment it by one" -- on irc, nickname++ is often used to show appreciation -- there are sometimes bots which track such increments as "karma"
11:23 jeff_ @karma jrshaw
11:23 pinesol_green jeff_: Karma for "jrshaw" has been increased 2 times and decreased 0 times for a total karma of 2.
11:26 jrshaw I do not have a successful install. I've started working backwards through the 2011 developers server VM and will continue to be documenting along the way. I just want to make sure that I can get some help as I step through this thing. I get the sense that I have your good ears. I think this will work and all will benefit...
11:27 rfrasur jrshaw: have you also been added to the listservs? better to have too many communication avenues than not enough.
11:28 jrshaw I'm on a few... looking up specifics...
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11:31 DPearl Question: What piece of code updates the asset.uri table when the underlying marc is changed in a record_entry?
11:31 jeff_ jrshaw: i would not recommend working with a virtual machine image from 2011 -- very little of that is likely to be relevant for today
11:33 jrshaw Here is what I have so far. I didn't want to overwhelm myself. You guys probably know some of the better and more important ones to augment these...  open-ils-documentation@list.georgialibraries.org open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org   open-ils-dev@list.georgialibraries.org
11:33 jeff_ DPearl: a database function, biblio.extract_located_uris which is called by biblio.indexing_ingest_or_delete which is attached to a trigger on biblio.record_entry
11:33 rfrasur actually, those are your best shots at this point.
11:34 DPearl jeff_: That's just what I was looking for!  jeff_++
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11:35 rfrasur jrshaw: I'd recommend popping in here first, generally, and then if you're not getting/finding the info you need, shoot an email to a list.
11:35 paxed where does the cvx.search_ccvm() used in coded_value_selector.tt2 come from?
11:35 rfrasur and, up front, you should know that I know nothing of value
11:35 rfrasur but others do
11:35 paxed ctx.search_ccvm()
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11:36 csharp jrshaw: can you provide specifics about what you're not finding in the installation documentation?  as mentioned before, the docs assume a good deal of Linux knowledge
11:38 jeff paxed: that's an autogenerated editor method defined in Open-ILS/src/perlmods/lib/Op​enILS/Utils/CStoreEditor.pm -- see "sub runmethod" and the comment above it, and "sub initialize" for where the stub functions to runmethod are created
11:38 jrshaw @rfrasur OK. That works for me. I’ll start stepping through the process and ask questions along the way…  @csharp you hit on a key element here--little but growing Linux knowledge. I hate robot commands: commands that one inputs into the command line with no knowledge or background as to why one is doing them. So when something blows up…
11:38 pinesol_green jrshaw: Leave me alone, I'm busy right now.
11:38 yboston on the topic of our installation instructions, I have always wanted to add a few "cd /path/to/osrf/installationfiles/" to a few spots in the instructions so that makefile related commands work after the user is asked to move to a different directory right before
11:39 yboston or instead create an installation FAQ that warns beginners about little things like that
11:39 csharp jrshaw: the @ prefix triggers the bot in this channel -FYI
11:39 Dyrcona jrshaw: Just type the user's name. the '@' confuses the bot
11:39 paxed jeff: hmph. no wonder i couldn't find it by grepping.
11:39 csharp ~bot
11:39 pinesol_green Hi, I'm pinesol_green, the #evergreen channel bot.  I do several useful things like log the channel (see http://evergreen-ils.org/irc_logs/), track @karma, save messages for @later, and have several useful factoids like this one (factoid usage: http://ubottu.com/devel/wiki/Plugins#Using).
11:40 Dyrcona @quote random
11:40 pinesol_green Dyrcona: Quote #15: "<Dyrcona> maybe Mnesia, I forget." (added by jeff at 03:29 PM, September 08, 2011)
11:40 Dyrcona pinesol_green is picking on me......
11:40 pinesol_green Dyrcona: Zoia knows how to make fusilli.
11:40 pinesol_green Dyrcona: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :)
11:40 Dyrcona Talking to it confuses it, too. :)
11:41 jrshaw Sorry folks. I'm bringing over some syntax from other communications methods. Thanks for the help. I'll learn and get this figured out...
11:42 rfrasur @blame pinesol_green
11:42 pinesol_green rfrasur: itself broke Evergreen.
11:42 Dyrcona heh.
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11:46 rfrasur (I LOVE it when I want software to do something I didn't know it could do, and it does it)
11:46 rfrasur egils++
11:47 jrshaw So taking this from the top. I’m doing a clean 2.4 install on VirtualBox running under Windows 7Pro-64. I’ll plod along, document my steps and ask for help nudges when things blow up or don’t work. Q1: Ubuntu or Debian?
11:47 * paxed uses both
11:48 jeff jrshaw: either, as long as it is a version of debian or ubuntu which is supported by Evergreen 2.4
11:50 mcooper jrshaw: i've always used ubuntu, if only because of familiarity with it from running web servers, and from the desktop
11:51 mrpeters jrshaw: sorry to hear that
11:51 jrshaw OK, but which is preferred? Which is easier to learn/use for those coming over from MSW? Which is most used in the Evergreen community?
11:52 mrpeters ubuntu lucid or debian squeeze are used by the biggest EG installations
11:52 jeff_ mrpeters: can you clarify that statement, or be more specific?
11:52 mrpeters which statement?
11:53 jeff_ mrpeters: the one immediately prior -- "ubuntu lucid or debian squeeze are used by the biggest EG installations"
11:53 mrpeters i didnt mean lucid....i meant precise
11:53 mrpeters by biggest, i'm thinking pines and EG-IN given my experience with them
11:53 jeff_ mrpeters: thanks.
11:53 mrpeters i would say Ubuntu would be easier for a Windows user to adpt to
11:54 jrshaw And mrpeters, I assume that snark was for my VM host system. I know I know. But this is where I am starting from. As I wrote last night in another forum, I have purchased my last non-open system.
11:54 rfrasur I'd agree w/ mrpeters on the adaptability from my own limited experience
11:55 jeff_ jrshaw: i don't think mrpeters was offering snark, but offering a delayed response to your long messages earlier where you voiced a differing opinion on the quality of the install documentation. :-)
11:56 jrshaw Sorry for the misunderstanding
11:58 Dyrcona jrshaw: I'd recommend using Ubuntu 12.04, but that's because that is what I use in production and development.
11:58 jrshaw I have Ubuntu 12.04 server and ubuntu desktop installed. Yellow pill or green pill? :-)
11:58 Dyrcona jrshaw: server.
11:59 Dyrcona rfrasur: The copy of This Film is Not Yet Rated that I requested last week showed up today.
12:00 Dyrcona rfrasur: I find it amusing that the cover of a DVD about censorship is censored.
12:00 jrshaw Can I at least layer something like LXDE on top of it so I can get a better sense of the file structure and get a scrolling terminal window?
12:01 Dyrcona jrshaw: I wouldn't. I do everything via command line. You can if you want to.
12:01 rfrasur yay!  Ours should be shipping soon from Amazon.  Dyrcona, I thought that was pretty ironic as well.
12:01 Dyrcona rfrasur: I believe it was the distributor who did the censorship, too, not the creators.
12:02 rfrasur yeah, I think you're right.  On the one hand, I'm glad...since it'll sit on a public shelf.  On the other hand, I think it's a pile of pants
12:02 Dyrcona pants would be better than a black rectangle. :)
12:02 rfrasur though I suspect it'll be a pretty high circulating item
12:02 mrpeters jrshaw: no snark intended, sorry if it came off that way
12:03 jrshaw Dyrcona: I've already had instances during the install where critical info scrolled off the screen particularly important stuff like responses to help commands!
12:03 rfrasur well...it's a girl...so I don't care what she's wearing :p
12:03 mrpeters jrshaw: you could use "screen" during the install proccess
12:03 mrpeters it will let you scroll back up through scrollback
12:04 Dyrcona jrshaw: If a graphical terminal helps, then do install lxde or xfce or whatever you like.
12:04 Dyrcona I forget that I install over ssh from a GNU/Linux workstation, so my local terminal has scrollback builtin.
12:04 Dyrcona rfrasur: me, neither. ;)
12:05 Dyrcona Maybe that didn't come out right?
12:05 Dyrcona Anyway, lunch time!
12:05 rfrasur no...it did.  Have a good lunch :D
12:05 mrpeters same here, Dyrcona
12:06 jrshaw mpeters: where can I read documentation on how to use SSH? What is the equivalent in the Windows environment? This is my first experience with VMs so I'm still getting my head wrapped around a machine inside a machine inside a...
12:06 Dyrcona I'll spend my lunch on G+ and here.
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12:07 mrpeters PuTTy is a great SSH client for Windows
12:07 rfrasur and free
12:07 Dyrcona kmlussier: Welcome back!
12:07 mrpeters apt-get install openssh-server (i think) on ubuntu
12:07 Dyrcona kmlussier: My development VM is working again.
12:07 mrpeters and then use putty to connect to the IP of your server with the credentials you've already got set up
12:07 Dyrcona kmlussier: You can't ssh to it from outside the firewall, yet.
12:08 kmlussier Dyrcona: Not back yet. Still in Indiana.
12:09 rfrasur oooo...where?
12:09 jrshaw Putty it is. So I can get to the Ubuntu VM by talking from my Windows machine through PuTTy as long as I don't have to cross a firewall?
12:11 kmlussier Dyrcona: Thanks! I may try to resume some testing over the next couple days.
12:11 jrshaw PuTTy - a telnet client. This takes me back a couple of decades...
12:12 kmlussier rfrasur: Mishawaka. At the in-laws house.
12:13 rfrasur kmlussier:Excellent!  Well...other than the "in Indiana" (although...welcome) and the "in-laws" part
12:13 rfrasur I hope our state is nice to you and the weather behaves at an acceptable level :D
12:14 yboston rfrasur:  you might want to check the help forums for what ever software you are using for virtualization on how to connect with ssh/PuTTY because you also need to know what IP address is assigned to your VM by your virtualization software (if DHCP is being used) or if you need to pick an internal static IP address to your VM so you can connect to it from windows with PuTTy
12:15 Dyrcona yboston I think you meant jrshaw
12:15 yboston oops, bad auto coplete
12:16 yboston jrshaw: you might want to check the help forums for what ever software you are using for virtualization on how to connect with ssh/PuTTY because you also need to know what IP address is assigned to your VM by your virtualization software (if DHCP is being used) or if you need to pick an internal static IP address to your VM so you can connect to it from windows with PuTTy
12:16 kmlussier Every other time I've come to IN in July, it's been unbearably hot, so I'm happy with the cool temps. :)
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12:16 jrshaw Thanks. caught them both...
12:21 mrpeters its goregous here this week kmlussier
12:21 mrpeters only 73 right now, considering opening window in my room here at home
12:25 rfrasur yboston: thanks though :-)
12:26 * jrshaw goes to lunch
12:26 rfrasur @weather 47346
12:26 pinesol_green rfrasur: The current temperature in Hagerstown, Hagerstown, Indiana is 76.5°F (12:25 PM EDT on July 03, 2013). Conditions: Partly Cloudy. Humidity: 66%. Dew Point: 64.4°F. Pressure: 30.08 in 1018 hPa (Steady).
12:33 rfrasur Hmm, I'm searching in the patron search screen, just bringing up a list of user accts based on permission settings.  It worked just fine for "staffcard" but is pulling in strange results for "staff"
12:37 rfrasur it's pulling in "staff," along with some other permission types
12:38 mmorgan rfrasur: Could the other permission types you're seeing be children of "staff" in the permission tree?
12:38 rfrasur mmorgan: I'm checking.  I know that "staff" is a parent
12:40 rfrasur mmorgan: no, the resulting permission types are children of another parent...and all the children of that parent aren't being pulled.
12:40 rfrasur at least from what I can see.
12:40 rfrasur jboyer-isl: rjackson-isl: can you see something else?
12:43 rfrasur also, I'm cleaning our patron files (rather than preparing for the board meeting...because it's boring)...and I have patrons that I can't get rid of because someone/something gave them the "staff" permission level which requires a global-admin or someone with server side access to delete.
12:43 rfrasur :p
12:43 * rfrasur calls no one in particular a moron
12:46 * paxed grumbles something unprintable
12:46 csharp jrshaw: you may have to set up a bridged networking device on your vbox vm to be able to reach it from your windows host
12:47 csharp (just fyi)
12:48 paxed bah. tracking where the hell cstore searches go is like trying to find an underground river by dowsing.
12:48 * paxed needs a proper technical documentation.
12:49 rfrasur lol....I hear the sound of crickets with regard to my "problem" - of course, it's not much of a problem since I can't fix it anyway.
12:58 bshum Hmm, we can start to process offline circ transactions and then close the window to do other things?
12:59 bshum I have this feeling starting the process does something on the DB and the client will just get updates when it finishes.
12:59 rfrasur bshum: yes...we do that.
12:59 rfrasur get it running and move on.
13:00 Dyrcona bshum: The transactions are uploaded first and then processed.
13:00 Dyrcona bshum: Staff can upload offline transactions from all of their circ workstations, and then tell it to process them all.
13:01 bshum Dyrcona: That's kind of what we're planning towards again.  We have staff upload from their workstations to a session and then HQ staff process things.
13:01 bshum But we're trying to figure out if we can begin to process and then switch client logins to the next library to process a different library.
13:01 bshum That said, then we wouldn't know that the process was done or not till we logged back in anyways.
13:02 Dyrcona bshum: We let library staff do it all.
13:02 rfrasur hmm, we can't see sessions from other libs here...maybe it's diff there?  since we're just a spoke of the wheel and all that.
13:02 rfrasur and each individual library does their own, like Dyrcona
13:02 Dyrcona rfrasur: When you know the tricks, you can login as any library if you have the permissions.
13:02 mmorgan bshum: One of our libraries had a problem logging out of the client while the transactions were processing. Once the authenticated session was gone, the remaining transactions didn't process.
13:03 mmorgan We were on 2.2 at the time. Not sure if anything has changed in that regard.
13:03 rfrasur even if I knew the tricks, I don't have permission
13:03 bshum mmorgan: Eww, gotcha.
13:03 bshum That's the situation I was afraid of.
13:04 mmorgan Closing the window, or going to another tab was ok, I think, but not logging out.
13:04 Dyrcona bshum: You should call in sick whenever your vacation is over.
13:04 bshum Yep, that helps a lot.  mmorgan++ #thanks for the warning.
13:05 bshum Dyrcona: I'm back from vacation.  And I was thinking about taking a sick day today.  Haven't slept well this whole week :(
13:12 rfrasur this is why I hate reports - because they show all the bad data that has to be fixed to get accurate friggin reporting
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13:28 Dyrcona Seems I am not the only one fond of quoting Doctor McCoy in my error messages: https://support.google.com/chrome/a​nswer/1270364?p=e_deadjim&amp;rd=1
13:30 rfrasur lol, it seems that you're not.
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13:46 kayals what is the best way to edit staff-client index.xhtml. I would like to edit some text and provide external link. I checked the index.xhtml file and it includes locale /openils/var/web/opac/locale/en-US/lang.dtd
13:48 paxed depends. if you're making internal changes, so they're not of any use to others, you might aswell just put the text in there as is.
13:48 kayals its internal
13:48 kayals i am new to dtd
13:49 kayals the  easiest way is to add a text to the index.xhtml file and hyperlink
13:49 kayals but is there a way to insert the link viz dtd entity
13:50 kayals via*
13:50 rfrasur gmcharlt++
13:50 paxed just consider the index.xhtml as a normal html file then. unless your users need other than en-US languages too.
13:50 kayals ok
13:51 kayals i guess I will edit the index file
13:51 kayals thanks
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14:04 Dyrcona kayals: You know how to use HTML entities, like &amp; ?
14:10 * paxed repeats himself.
14:10 Dyrcona heh.
14:10 Dyrcona I just thought that I'd offer to confuse things. ;)
14:10 paxed in http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.​3/_recent_staff_searches_2.html the resencd searches list in the image show only the actual search term, none of the depth() or subject: or others. is that a config option or has it changed?
14:11 * paxed repeats himself, with typos!
14:12 Dyrcona paxed: I don't know. I've never really paid attention to that interface.
14:12 * jeffdavis opens gettext manual, quails, reads Wikipedia page on gettext instead
14:13 paxed jeffdavis: oh?
14:14 jeffdavis seeing some minor weirdness that may be locale related, just trying to wrap my head around how i18n stuff works in EG which I've avoided delving into before
14:15 paxed jeffdavis: ask, i may know something.
14:15 jeffdavis paxed: thanks! will do as soon as I know how to formulate the question :)
14:15 paxed so what's the weirdness?
14:17 jeffdavis well, one part of it is that we're getting an XML parse error on /openils/var/web/xul/server/locale​/en-CA/multiclass_search_help.html
14:18 jeffdavis the file appears to actually be a po file rather than html, and i'm not clear if that is supposed to be the case
14:18 jeffdavis also seeing a mismatch between web/reports/fm_IDL.dtd on different servers which is causing errors, and I'm not sure where the mismatch snuck in
14:19 jeffdavis so more to do with our build/install process probably, but I don't know the i18n stuff well enough to be sure what is/should be going on
14:20 paxed hm. yes, that file appears to be a po-file, indeed. and no, i don't think it should be.
14:23 sidion dbs i have been informed that you recently upgraded to 2.4, much like we did, and that you may have gotten Novelist to be working?  If so am i correct in my understanding that the authentication method changed from 2.2 and that i'm going to have to get that new auth info from novelist?
14:23 * paxed decides to call it a day.
14:24 paxed oh hey, a new humble ebook bundle.
14:26 paxed with pretty good books too... https://www.humblebundle.com/
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15:06 dbs sidion: we don't use novelist, so what I did was to prevent errors from being thrown if you're not a novelist site
15:06 dbs paxed: yeah, jumped on that immediately :)
15:07 sidion ah that makes sense, i was looking at the code and it looks like it will error no matter what, as it looks like there is a variable being used as an object but its the only instance of that var in the entire source code but there might be some magic somewhere i'm missing that defines it if the right env variables are set
15:08 Dyrcona sidion: The variables used for authentication have changed.
15:08 Dyrcona I believe it is in the release notes.
15:08 * Dyrcona checks.
15:09 sidion yes there is a new password and user env that wasn't there before
15:09 dbs jeffdavis: fm_IDL.xml gets converted to entity format, if the i18n is not up to date, then the fm_IDL.dtd will be missing definitions for some entities and bad things will happen
15:09 dbs jeffdavis: short, brutal workaround is to replace /openils/var/web/reports/fm_IDL.xml with a copy of /openils/conf/fm_IDL.xml (which is non-entityized)
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15:10 Dyrcona sidion: You'll need to get the password from EBSCO.
15:12 sidion right, that makes sense. thanks Dyrcona
15:25 bshum sidion: If I recall, I figured out what our user/pass credentials were based on our URL variable from prior to 2.4
15:26 sidion i have the url and profile but no clealy defined pass in the previous url env
15:26 bshum Oh, that's weird.
15:26 bshum Ours was clearly showing as part of it with &pwd=...
15:26 bshum Where that was the password
15:26 bshum Before the next &cfg=Y
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15:27 bshum Sorry, good luck with figuring it all out then :(
15:27 bshum @eightball Will tomorrow be uneventful?
15:27 pinesol_green bshum: About as likely as pigs flying.
15:27 sidion we also have some with multiple profiles set, so i am getting into contact with novelist to get them to send us the values so i know they are proper
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15:39 Dyrcona @eightball Will thing be better in Chicago?
15:39 pinesol_green Dyrcona: What are you asking me for?
15:39 Dyrcona heh
15:39 rfrasur that sinking feeling that your 18 yr old child may not be telling you the entire truth about plans w/ the girlfriend and the realization that there's little that can be done about it.
15:39 rfrasur @eightball Is the eldest feeding me a line of crap?
15:39 pinesol_green rfrasur: You're kidding, right?
15:40 rfrasur nice noncommital answer
15:41 rfrasur @blame pinesol_green
15:41 pinesol_green rfrasur: itself broke Evergreen.
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16:04 jrshaw I tried configuring the VM for SSH and PuTTy but my Vm and network knowledge was insufficient to overcome the configuration obstacles. So I settled on an LXDE installation on ubuntu server 12.04 which is working...
16:05 jrshaw On to the OpenSRF install...
16:22 rfrasur :)
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16:41 jrshaw OK on a previous occasion  I’ve downloaded the 2.2.0 tarball, unpacked it in the opensrf directory, and ran the Makefile.install using ubuntu-precise as the OS name The config command blows up. I’m loggedin as user. ~$ sudo ./configure --prefix=/openils --sysconfdir=/openils/conf sudo: ./configure: command not found ~$
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16:42 jrshaw ~$ sudo ./configure --prefix=/openils --sysconfdir=/openils/conf
16:42 pinesol_green jrshaw: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :)
16:42 jrshaw Sorry. Put some errant sytax in ther...
16:42 rfrasur ignore the bot.  it prolly got triggered by the /
16:43 dbs jrshaw: don't type the "~$" part. for that matter, you probably shouldn't be using "sudo" to configure & make, either; just "make install"
16:44 rfrasur meh
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16:44 * dbs stares at http://evergreen-ils.org/documentati​on/install/OpenSRF/README_2_2_0.html
16:45 rfrasur jrshaw: you can check logs to see what you missed as well. http://evergreen-ils.org/irc_logs/evergreen/
16:45 jrshaw That was fun... Crashed Chrome. Lost last response. Looking up logs. Resuming...
16:46 rfrasur if I don't crash a computer every day, I think something bad's going to happen.
16:46 * rfrasur shrugs
16:47 jrshaw I thre the ~$ in there just to let you know I was at the dollar prompt. I'll leave it out next time.
16:47 jrshaw threw
16:48 dbs jrshaw: if "ls" doesn't show you that "configure" is in the list of files, then you're in the wrong directory
16:49 jrshaw I recall that it did not work at all without the sudo...
16:49 jrshaw found configure under the unpacked tartball diretor cding over there...
16:50 rfrasur jrshaw: where you located (roughly)?
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16:54 jrshaw Chrome rest again... I'm at home/opensrf/opensrf-2.2.0
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16:56 jrshaw reset^^
16:57 jrshaw So what is this configure trying to do and what are the switches doing? This is the part where if I knew what was trying to be accomplished I could learn something and not do some of these dumb inexperienced keyboard foibles...
17:00 phasefx jrshaw: configure is part of this http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/  It's really good at figuring out what shared libraries are present on your system and how to link them into Evergreen
17:02 jrshaw So I guess we are giving it a list of "default" or "common" directories so it knows where to look.
17:03 phasefx you're telling it where to install Evergreen or OpenSRF in this case
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17:07 jrshaw OK. got it to work. I was in the wrong directory and was missing a forward slash in from of the openils directory.
17:07 jrshaw in front of
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17:10 jrshaw The make blew up
17:14 jrshaw I thought I was going to be able to cut and paste out of the xterm window in the vm, but am unable to do so.
17:14 jrshaw should I have issued the make with the sudo prefix?
17:15 Dyrcona jrshaw: Which make?
17:16 Dyrcona you run three makes when installing OpenSRF or Evergreen typically.
17:16 jrshaw The one in the docs that follows the configure command
17:16 jrshaw ./configure --prefix=/openils --sysconfdir=/openils/conf make
17:16 Dyrcona no that one doesn't need sudo.
17:17 jrshaw sorry that last make should be on a separate line
17:17 Dyrcona did you do sudo make -f Src/extras/Makefile.install ubuntu-precise ?
17:17 jrshaw yes, because the first time it wouldn't work.
17:18 Dyrcona without know what the errors from make are, I'm not going to be able to help, much.
17:19 Dyrcona Which are you attempting to install at them moment OpenSRF or Evergreen?
17:19 jrshaw can I post screen shots on the evergreen pastbin?
17:19 Dyrcona jrshaw: I don't think so, but here's a place where you can: http://inky.ws/
17:23 jrshaw I'm going back to figuring out the network stuff so I can start logging all the keystrokes. Rolling back the vm to a clean install point...
17:23 jrshaw Thanks for your help guys. This will be a while...
17:24 * jrshaw is headed out to dinner
17:24 Dyrcona jrshaw: Good luck. I may or may not be on later. I go home from the office in about 5 minutes.
17:25 rfrasur (those lucky people who get to go home)
17:25 * Dyrcona could now work from just about anywhere.
17:26 jrshaw Hey, my home is my office so I never get to leave work... :-)
17:27 rfrasur Yeah, I can work at home 50% of the time also...
17:28 rfrasur but tonight is board meeting, so I'm here...plus my staff seems to like my face...or plausible deniability, at least.
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17:34 jrshaw The board gets to see my face when we teleconference. I have to figure out how to add in a green screen so I can put an office wall behind me while I'm broadcasting from the beach... :-)
17:35 rfrasur nice.  Well, we may have a diff working arrangement ;).  Someday when I'm not a lib director anymore, I fully plan to be offsite on a regular and extended basis.
17:43 rangi 9/ws 16
17:43 rangi heh
17:43 rangi its gonna be one of those doa
17:43 rangi days even
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17:49 rfrasur rangi: isn't your day over? ish?
17:49 rangi just starting
17:49 rangi 9.49am on thursday
17:50 rfrasur where are you?
17:51 rangi nz
17:52 rfrasur ahh...I was looking on the map but went east instead of west
17:52 rfrasur and you're not on the map anyway :D
17:52 * rfrasur has no work other than sitting and cooking tomorrow
17:52 rfrasur or...today for you
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18:24 * rfrasur time to make the donuts...er...doughnuts
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20:34 jeffdavis dbs: for our fm_IDL.xml issue, ldwhalen applied a workaround that is effectively the same as your "short, brutal" suggestion above; it's working for us for now
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