• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 16.02

Description:
The z39 server does not start automatically. We had to start it manually to get it to work.

It was disabled in the aleph_start configuration file so that the system does not hang.

Resolution:
The aleph_startup.log shows that it is only getting as far as "starting z39_gate". It should also be doing: "starting z39_gate", "starting oclc_server", and " starting library batch queues"....

We have found that, at least sometimes, you need to have an "&" after the "dev/null" in aleph_startup. The z39_server and z39_gate lines were lacking this, so I saved the existing file as aleph_startup.beforejschange, and added the "&" at the end of each of these lines:

csh -f $aleph_proc/z39_server $l_z39_server_port >& /dev/null &

and

csh -f $aleph_proc/z39_gate $l_z39_gate_port >& /dev/null &