[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Documentation Request

[Dan Scott]

Hi Chris:

2008/6/30 Sharp, Chris <csharp at georgialibraries.org>:
> Hello all,
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> I've been working for a couple of months (on and off) with a virtual
> installation of the Evergreen server.  I've followed the "How to Install an
> Evergreen Server on Debian" instructions several times, but could never get
> it up and working until now, and this was with the VMWare image.  The
> problem was that when I started the EG server with the "osrf_ctl.sh" script,
> the command wasn't recognized.  This was solved by putting the /openils/bin
> directory in my $PATH variable (which has been addressed on this list
> before) and putting the /openils/lib/perl5 directory in the PERL5LIB
> environment variable.   I think adding these steps (which would be obvious
> to more seasoned Unix users) to the main installation instructions would be
> a big help!  Everything worked very well once I got that sorted out!

Interesting - that's what step 19 is for (setting these variables in
.bashrc) - but it is possible if your opensrf user's shell isn't bash
to not get these variables set, and to run into trouble as a result.
I'm especially interested on the VMWare image, which should work out
of the box - how were you becoming the opensrf user?

To help out in those situations where things might have gone wrong,
I'll add a debug step right after step 2 of the "starting evergreen"
section that tells you what to do if you receive an error about
command not found or Perl library not found. Thanks for the feedback!

-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University