Two things are required to get elog (tested with 2.8.1) to compile on OpenBSD (tested on OpenBSD 4.8):

Step 1 - Patch Makefile:

--- Makefile~ Mon Jan 24 21:38:09 2011
+++ Makefile Mon Jan 24 21:42:57 2011
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@
 RM = /usr/bin/rm -f
 endif

+ifeq ($(OSTYPE),OpenBSD)
+LIBS += -lcrypto
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(OSTYPE),Darwin)
 OSTYPE=darwin
 endif

Step 2 - Use "gmake" instead of the standard "make" to build.

--- Makefile~ Mon Jan 24 21:38:09 2011
+++ Makefile Mon Jan 24 21:42:57 2011
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@
 RM = /usr/bin/rm -f
 endif

+ifeq ($(OSTYPE),OpenBSD)
+LIBS += -lcrypto
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(OSTYPE),Darwin)
 OSTYPE=darwin
 endif

Thanks, I added your patch to the distribution. 

 Hi!

I have attached a small script which can process an e-mail and submit this e-mail as a log entry. This is alpha at the moment but if you have suggestions or find bugs please let me know. 

The easiest way to process this is to use the ".forward" file in unix. If this file contains the line:

| "/usr/bin/python /home/tardis/elogmail/process.py --log /home/tardis/elogmail/mail.log -r -u http://localhost:8080/TARDIS -a Category=email -a Type=Log"

This will pipe the incoming mail to the e-log running on the localhost with the experiment TARDIS. Attributes can be set using the "-a" switch like in the elog command line utility. To get help with all the options please run the script with the command:

python process.py -h

which will give help.

Any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me, and I will do my best to help.

Thanks again to Stefan for a great application.

Best wishes,

Stuart

A very simple backup utility for elog logbooks.
If you want to recover your logbook from corrupted entries, an incremental backup comes in handy:
you can just replace the corrupted files with the previous versions.
Below is a very simple wrapper to create backups of the logbook into some local directory (/logbooks_backup in
the example script). The second wrapper lists the files in a given ".tar" archive.

You would run the backup from a cron job with the line:
1 0 * * * /usr/local/elog/elog_backup_daily

This will create daily backups of modified logbook and config files and a weekly backup of the password file
/usr/local/elog/passwd.txt (if you wonder why: our passwd.txt file has more than 1 MByte and of course it
changes with every login).

elog_backup_daily (copy to /usr/local/elog) script to create tar file and remove tar files older than 90 days
exclude-logbooks  (copy to /usr/local/elog) list of files to be excluded in backup (thumbnails, etc.) 
elog_backup_listfiles (copy to /usr/local/bin) shows content of a given tar file (omits directories in list)

Our server runs on local time, however, we require log entries to be in UTC (-0800hrs) - is there a command to achieve this?

Your assistance will be much appreciated

Thanks

Have you tried

Subst <attribute> = $utcdate

Probably you need a dedicated attribute of type "datetime" and have to play with the "Date format" options.

I`ve edited-prepared new default.css
It`s very simple but maybe will for someone useful.

Have a nice day.

regards
Branislav