[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Error with autogen script

[Dan Scott]

2009/6/23 Victoria Bush <vbush at ilstu.edu>:
> As I recall, if you look at the installation instructions, step 3 under
> "starting Evergreen" says:
>
> As the opensrf user, generate the Web files needed by the staff client and
> catalogue and update the organization unit proximity (you need to do this
> each time you change the library hierarchy in config.cgi):
>
> (emphasis added)
> You have to set up the hierarchy and organization units for your library,
> then regenerate the web pages using the autogen script. In theory, it should
> start up with the generic hiearchy and OUs, but I saw a few problems that
> went away after I set these up via the config.cgi script.
> It's a thought.

That's rather magical. I suspect some other factor was to blame for
your problems.

My fear with directing users to touch the hierarchy before running
autogen.sh is that they are much more likely to introduce other
problems (like org units at the wrong depth). I think it's far better
to get the out of the box system up and running, keeping as many
defaults as possible, and then start to carefully tweak one variable
at a time.

-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University