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• ....

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• Integration with your existing Linux mailserver
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When installing or migrating from KnowledgeTree (Document Management System) version 3.0.6 to 3.0.7.2 on CentOS using the KnowledgeTree universal installer one might run into the following issue:

None of the Scheduler's tasks get executed correctly. 

All the tasks exit with the following errorcode:

[db_error: message="DB Error: extension not found" code=-25 mode=return level=notice prefix="" info="Array"] 

You can test this manually:

# /usr/local/zend/bin/php /usr/share/knowledgetree-ce/search2/bin/cronDocumentProcessor.php
[db_error: message="DB Error: extension not found" code=-25 mode=return level=notice prefix="" info="Array"]

The problem here is that the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set correctly, causing the zend php binary not being able to find the correct database module.
Let's try setting this variable manually:

# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/zend/lib/
# /usr/local/zend/bin/php /usr/share/knowledgetree-ce/search2/bin/cronDocumentProcessor.php
#

Fixed! Now, this only fixes the problem in our current shell, how do we make this fix persistent system wide? By creating a file in /etc/profile.d/ setting the variable system wide:

# vi /etc/profile.d/kt.sh

With the contents:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/local/zend/lib/

Now, lets make this file executable:

# chmod +x /etc/profile.d/kt.sh

Now, all that's left to do is restart KnowledgeTree so that it reads the new content of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable and our problem is solved.

Bug reported to KnowledgeTree: http://issues.knowledgetree.com/browse/KTS-4576

When installing OpenERP on CentOS for my new company Open-Future I noticed that the documentation on the OpenERP website is a bit out of date and mainly focuses on an installation on Ubuntu.

I decided to write a blogpost with a decent, up to date howto of how to install it on CentOS as I didn't find any online. Have fun installing, and.... Let's get started!

Let's make some things clear, text formatted like this are shell commands.

> echo "run this as a normal user"
# echo "run this as root"

This howto contains 2 parts:

• Installation and configuration of openerp-server.
  The server package
• Installation and configuration of openerp-web.
  The webclient GUI.

Let's start with openerp-server.

1. Installation
1.1 Installing the required packages

First, let's enable the EPEL repository, this repository, maintained by the Fedora Project contains most of the packages we need.

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

Now, let's install the required packages:

# yum install python python-setuptools python-ldap python-ldaphelper PyXML python-psycopg2 \
pychart pydot libxml2-python python-lxml libxslt-python pytz postgresql-python graphviz \
python-imaging python-devel postgresql-server openldap-clients python-dev

There is one more package that we need, but it's not in the repositories, so dowload it from rpmforge and install it:

# cd /usr/src
# wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/python-reportlab/python-reportlab-1.2...
# rpm -Uvh python-reportlab-1.20-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm

1.2 Download openerp-server

# cd /usr/src

Download from: http://www.openerp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18&Itemid=28

# wget http://www.openerp.com/download/stable/source/openerp-server-5.0.6.tar.g

1.3 Installing openerp-server

 # tar xvf openerp-server-5.0.6.tar.gz
 # cd openerp-server-5.0.6
 # python setup.py install

That's it really :-)

1.4 Run as a daemon

There is no init script available for openerp-server and it has no option to force it to the background. You could run it in screen but that's not necessary as I wrote an init script for CentOS for you to use ;-).

First, we need to add an openerp user.

 # adduser openerp

Now, download the openerp-server.txt init script from the file attachments and add it as a service:

# mv /path/to/openerp-server.txt /etc/init.d/openerp-server
# chmod +x openerp-server
# chkconfig --add openerp-server
# chkconfig openerp-server on

Do not start it yet! First see the openerp-server configuration section.

2. Configuration
2.1 Postgresql

First we'll need to configure postgresql to setup an openerp user and database.
Let's start postgres:

# service postgresql start
# chkconfig postgresql on

If your selinux is enabled and enforcing (RECOMMENDED!) there might be a problem launching postgresql. If so check your audit log
and create a policy for postgresql.

# service postgresql start

Now, let's create a user for openerp:

# su - postgres
> createuser --createdb --no-createrole --pwprompt openerp

Now, let's create the postgres db:

# su - postgres
> createdb -O openerp openerp

To allow openerp-server to login to postgresql edit the following file: /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
Make sure it looks like this (insert lines marked with '>>' but opress the '>>' !! :

# !! NOT SHELLCODE, FILE CONTENTS ;-) !!
# TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
>> local   all         all                               trust
local   all         all                               ident sameuser
# IPv4 local connections:
>> host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          trust
host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          ident sameuser
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all         all         ::1/128               ident sameuser

2.2 openerp-server

Now that postgresql is configured, we can configure openerp-server.
We are going to start openerp-server with the -s parameter, this gives us a basic config we can edit to our needs.

# su - openerp
> openerp-server -s

Now, we can stop it again and edit the configuration file.
Let's edit it:

 > vi ~/.openerp_serverrc

And change the following lines:

 admin_passwd = ...
db_user = openerp
db_port = 5432
db_password = ...
db_name = openerp
db_host = 'localhost'

That's it!! OpenERP server is configured, you can now start it:

# mkdir /var/run/openerp
# chown openerp.openerp /var/run/openerp
# service openerp-server start

And go on with installation and configuration of openerp-web.

Let's continue: openerp-web!

1. Installation
1.1 Download openerp-web

# cd /usr/src

Download from: http://www.openerp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18&Itemid=28

# wget http://www.openerp.com/download/stable/source/openerp-web-5.0.6.tar.gz

1.2 Installation

# tar xvf openerp-web-5.0.6.tar.gz
# cd openerp-web-5.0.6/lib
# ./populate.sh
# cd ..
# easy_install -U openerp-web

Look for the config file and copy it to /etc/openerp-web.cfg

# cp /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/openerp_web-5.0.6-py2.4.egg/config/openerp-web.cfg \
/etc/openerp-web.cfg

1.4 Run as a daemon

An init script for openerp-web is available but sadly it only works for debian/ubuntu as the /etc/init.d/functions differ too much on Red Hat/CentOS. But not to worry, check the attachments and find the openerp-web.txt init script ;-).

Download the openerp-web.txt init script from the file attachments and add it as a service:

# mv /path/to/openerp-web.txt /etc/init.d/openerp-web
# chmod +x openerp-web
# chkconfig --add openerp-web
# chkconfig openerp-web on

Do not start it yet! First see the openerp-web configuration section.

2. Configuration

Just edit the configuration file to your needs:

# vi /etc/openerp-web.cfg

Basicly you need to change the following values:

 # Some server parameters that you may want to tweak
server.socket_host = "0.0.0.0"
server.socket_port = 8080

...

 # logging
log.access_file = "/var/log/openerp-web/access.log"
log.error_file = "/var/log/openerp-web/error.log"

Also, make sure the /var/log/openerp-web directory exists and is owned by openerp !

# mkdir /var/log/openerp-web
# chown openerp /var/log/openerp-web

...

 # OpenERP Server
[openerp]
host = 'localhost'
port = '8070'
protocol = 'socket'

...

 # will be applied on company logo
company.url = 'http://www.company.com'

You're done!

You can now start both services:

# service openerp-server start
# service openerp-web start

And go to http://your-openerp-server:8080 to log in as admin and do OpenERP stuff like enabling LDAP login, creating your company profile, customers, ...

Today I started at my new employer (Open-Future). http://www.open-future.be/

I'm quite happy with this new challenge and I hope I can have a nice future here.

Today,

I learned in this interesting post that gnome-do is an application written in Mono.
I won't elaborate on why I don't like this, there are enough flame wars all around the internet/community for any of you to read.

I'm only going to say: I'm sad. I really really like gnome-do, it's an awesome application and I certainly will keep using it. But if there seems to be an alternative that's not written in Mono. And it's nearly as good, I will switch to the alternative.

But no, I don't think Launchy gets to the gnome-do level, it won't do...

/dev/out sad :-(