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Rachel Hamilton-Williams | 13 Jul 2000 02:26
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RE: Query

hi Sue - I hope you don't mind, but I forward your questions and reply to the 
mailing list so everyone could see the answers - I'm sure it's what everyone 
wants to know :-)

> .... just about 'everything'
> but for a start....

> What hardware is required to run it?

Horowhenua have 2 linux  boxes that comprise Koha. 

 One is an AMDK6/500 with 256 Mb of Ram and 2 x 15GB hard drive - it runs 
the OPACs and Issue and Returns machines  which at horowhenua are 
dumb diskless 486's, so this machine is running lots of copies of Netscape 
and telnet.  Cost was approx $2000 (without screen or keyboard).  This 
machine is also the HLT server for staff to use - so it has all the usual mail 
and home directories etc, and it functions as a dial in server for the  
branches - so there are a couple of modems in it for them to use.

The second machine is running the actual database, and webserver   - it is 
an Athlon 650, 256 MB Ram, 2x 15GB hard drive - running MYSQl and 
Apache. Cost was Approx $2100 (without screen or keyboard). The double 
hard drives are so that the main disk can be mirrored nightly for backup.

The actual database is only about 80mb on disk, (15 GB were cheep that 
week :-)

If all your clients are "real" PC's that have enough ram etc to run interent 
explorer you don't actually need to have the first machine. However if you 
have a lot of old gear, then spending $2000 in an extra server is probably
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Simon Blake | 13 Jul 2000 02:41
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Re: RE: Query

Hi all.  I'd add an extra point - we developed Koha on the Katipo
development server, which is a Pentium II 233 with 256Mb of RAM, that does
a bunch of other stuff as well (hosts ~60 other websites, runs mail, usual
ISP type stuff), and it works fine on that.  

Sizing is likely to be dependant largely upon how many concurrent users
you're going to have, and how heavily they're going to be using the system
- for only a couple of users, you could easily get away with a Pentium
with 64-96Mb RAM, with > 50 users you would probably want to go to a
bigger box, with plenty of RAM.  It's also relatively modular, so that you
can run the web server, telnet clients and database on different machines,
if you need to.  In a real sense, it's just a standard dynamic website
with a database backend, so a lot of the material on the 'net about sizing
servers with apache and mysql is probably applicable here as well.

I should also add that the config below supports about 30 concurrent
clients - about 7 opacs, and the rest staff machines and circulation.

Cheers
Si

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote:

> hi Sue - I hope you don't mind, but I forward your questions and reply to the 
> mailing list so everyone could see the answers - I'm sure it's what everyone 
> wants to know :-)
> 
> > .... just about 'everything'
> > but for a start....
>
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Rachel Hamilton-Williams | 17 Jul 2000 08:19
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FAQ: Overdues and fines

HI,

Have had a question about overdues and fines in Koha, and thought you may 
all be interested in the answer.

QUESTION - Does koha have functionality to automatically record overdues 
$$ and other penalties and  print o/d notices? 

Yep it does - the library fills in a schedule matching itemtype and borrower 
type to a loan length and a fine amount as part of the setup, and then Koha 
calculates the fines based on that. Librarians can write of fines if they need 
too.

for a demo see

http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/cgi-bin/koha/moremember.pl?bornum=11250

Fines owing comes up when you're issuing a book, and it won't let you issue 
if the borrower owes more than $5.

You could change that amount if you wanted to.

It doesn't automaticaly  prints over due notices right now, although it collects 
them, and we have been doing work with talking technologies to get the 
overdue notices going to the auto phone system - so we have a text file that 
is output at the moment, but it could easily be output to the printer rather 
than the phone system.

Hope that's what you need to know
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Rachel Hamilton-Williams | 21 Jul 2000 07:07
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Download available if feeling brave

Hi all,

Well Chris has made his first set of files ready to be downloaded.  They do 
assume a pretty high level of familiarity with loading systems in Linus - but 
you're welcome to sign your techies up to this list and they can ask for help:-)

http://www.koha.org/download/

Cheers
Rachel
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