[Koha] Problem when creating koha instance

2016-06-03 Thread Johnstone Selemani
Dear All, I am installing koha on ubuntu 14.04. But when creating instance the error below pops. dmilibrary2016@dmilibrary:~$ sudo koha-create --create-db dmilibrary awk: fatal: cannot open file `/etc/mysql/koha-common.cnf' for reading (No such file or directory) Could you please assist. Thank

Re: [Koha] Problem when creating koha instance

2016-06-03 Thread Brendan Gallagher
Are you using stable or oldstable? On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Johnstone Selemani wrote: > Dear All, > > I am installing koha on ubuntu 14.04. But when creating instance the > error below pops. > > dmilibrary2016@dmilibrary:~$ sudo koha-create --create-db dmilibrary > awk: fatal: cannot open

Re: [Koha] Problem when creating koha instance

2016-06-03 Thread Johnstone Selemani
Dear All, Am using old stable, Thanks, Johnstone On 6/3/16, Johnstone Selemani wrote: > Am using old stable > > On 6/3/16, Brendan Gallagher wrote: >> Are you using stable or oldstable? >> >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Johnstone Selemani >> wrote: >> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I am installin

[Koha] Handling student worker accounts

2016-06-03 Thread Eric Phetteplace
Hi all, First of all, we are right now starting to migrate to Koha so I'm probably going to ask a lot of questions on this list in the coming weeks. Bear with me. If you have low-level employees who perform basic circulation work—e.g. work study students, volunteers—how do you handle their accoun

Re: [Koha] Handling student worker accounts

2016-06-03 Thread Doug Dearden
Hi Eric, From a system admin viewpoint I never create generic logins for users. The reason is that if you have to investigate something after the fact, and a log file indicates that "Librarian1" was the username you don't know who that is if it is shared amongst several people. Better to crea

[Koha] Debian packages for 16.05.00

2016-06-03 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, The Debian package for Koha 16.05.00 is now available in the Koha Apt repository debian.koha-community.org. The 16.05.x package occupies the 'stable' slot. To install Koha, you would set your Apt source to: deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha stable main Note that if you were running

Re: [Koha] Handling student worker accounts

2016-06-03 Thread Eric Phetteplace
Hi Doug, Thanks—Duplicate looks quite handy. I hadn't seen that. I doubt we'll go the way of creating a second account for each work study student, that seems kind of the worst of both worlds as now it's more work to set up than a shared login *and* it's a fake account. I'm not too concerned abou