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Scott Leighton — 2007-06-05T20:15:54-07:00

Linux Unable to Access Google using Lynx Symptom: Attempts to access using Lynx result in the error, “Google Error Bad Request” or “400 Bad Request”. Cause: Some Linux distributions ship with a large /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap file that Lynx is using to send a huge Accept: header and google doesn’t like it.

cats:bugfixes

Scott Leighton — 2007-02-07T22:10:39-07:00

:!: This Documentation Applies to CATS Version 0.6.1 :!: The CATS Team has since released new versions, the material documented here likely will not work on the new versions without modification. Bug Fixes/Mods to 0.6.1 Add session name This patch adds the session_name to the session cookies so CATS does not interfere with other PHP applications running on the same server. Without the session_name, those other applications can step on CATS saved session information, and vice versa.

cats:addconverters

Scott Leighton — 2007-02-07T22:09:58-07:00

:!: This Documentation Applies to CATS Version 0.6.1 :!: The CATS Team has since released new versions, the material documented here likely will not work on the new versions without modification. Add PDF, RTF, HTM Converters to CATS The patch below adds converters to handle PDF, RTF, and HTM format resumes by converting them to text for insertion into the candidate record. Obviously, for the patch to be useful, one must have the converters installed on the system;

cats:parseresumes

Scott Leighton — 2007-02-07T22:09:36-07:00

:!: This Documentation Applies to CATS Version 0.6.1 :!: The CATS Team has since released new versions, the material documented here likely will not work on the new versions without modification. Automatically Parse and Add Resumes to CATS Any new CATS installation with an existing inventory of candidate resumes will face the conundrum of how to get all those resumes into CATS. The thought of manually data entering thousands, or tens of thousands, of candidates with their associated res…

sphinx:search

Scott Leighton — 2007-02-07T22:09:11-07:00

:!: This Documentation Applies to CATS Version 0.6.1 :!: The CATS Team has since released new versions, the material documented here likely will not work on the new versions without modification. * Download the CATS Sphinx Search Module cats-sphinx.tar.gz * Extract the module to the /srv/www/htdocs/cats directory helphand:/srv/www/htdocs/# tar xzvf cats-sphinx.tar.gz cats/ cats/lib/ cats/lib/sphinxapi.php cats/lib/SearchRes.php cats/modules/ cats/modules/search/ cats/modules/search/…

sphinx:modifycats

Scott Leighton — 2007-02-07T22:08:41-07:00

:!: This Documentation Applies to CATS Version 0.6.1 :!: The CATS Team has since released new versions, the material documented here likely will not work on the new versions without modification. The following alteration to constants.php adds a new data item, resume, for use by the base CATS system in tracking saved searches from the new Search page.

cats:sphinx

Scott Leighton — 2007-02-07T22:07:58-07:00

:!: This Documentation Applies to CATS Version 0.6.1 :!: The CATS Team has since released new versions, the material documented here likely will not work on the new versions without modification. Sphinx Integration with CATS The base CATS package uses MySQL’s fulltext search capability for the Candidate Resume Keyword search. The author found the speed of this search unacceptable, taking 30 - 40+ seconds to return search results on a database of ~4,000 candidates. Testing with Sphinx o…

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Scott Leighton — 2007-02-07T22:07:24-07:00

:!: This Documentation Applies to CATS Version 0.6.1 :!: The CATS Team has since released new versions, the material documented here likely will not work on the new versions without modification. This documentation applies to CATS Version 0.6.1 available from the download section of Catsone. It documents changes made to the base package in order to add functionality required by the author of the changes, Scott Leighton. Although others are welcome to incorporate these changes into their …