Hello,

I am using ELOG 2.5.2. I had a real need for a simplified almost text-only version of the application.  For me 
personally, I like simple, minimalist and text-only as much as possible for the tools I use.  I personally found 
the layout with all the colors to be distracting from the content of each log entry.  Again this is ONLY my 
personal preference, NO offense meant. :-)

I took the default.css and modified it to achieve what I needed.  I am uploading here, the .css file.  It uses 
"blue" for some of the things such as attribute fields on single page view, etc.  but overall it's all clean, 
plain-text.

I don't know if this css will work on newer versions of ELOG (since I know i'm using an old one.)  But it's my 
hope that others like me, will find this modification very useful.

Thank you Stefan, and community -- this is an awesome tool, that I use in my business.  It's amazing how simple 
tools are always the most powerful and scale-able!  Fantastic, excellent job on this app.

Very often this happens if an entry is deleted AFTER someone already replied to it. Normally that is no problem, but in some cases you might get infinite loops and that causes ELOG to hang. The script is not checking for loops, but wrong references might give you a hint where to look.

The script will print duplicate entries as well, if the referenced entry exist more than once.

Cheers, Andreas

PS: never include the string "$ @ MID @ $:" without spaces in an ELOG entry: apparently ELOG cuts off all text from that token on.

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.

The original theme is from Francois Cukier but I have change a some color 
and font.

Francois Cukier  said : "Uncompress "Bubble.zip" in your Elog default 
folder if you want to replace the original elog theme. Otherwise, if you 
decompress it in another folder, you will need to modify your elogd.cfg 
file as described at this adress: http://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html"

Do it at the same ;o)

I want to thanks Francois Cukier and Stephan Ritt for their works, so 
THANKS a lot !

I wait your comments :o).


-UPDATE------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/08/1 : Alexander Sheremet correct CSS bug thanks to it, archive re-uploaded

Hello all,

I became aware of the usefulness of Elog while working at Brookhaven National Lab. Since that time, I have developed a version of Elog that can be used as a log book for observations in Astronomy (my longtime hobby). Attached is my default.css theme and replacement icon files that match the theme. The color scheme is chosen to minimize bright lights and preserve night vision

To install, just place the default.css file in the default theme directory and copy over the icon files into the default theme directory and replace the default ones. 

Comments and suggestions welcome!

Thank you

The attached script was used by the Debian package (which is no longer maintained) to start/stop elogd. I have changed it based on some comments in the forum (see script) to add some more functionality. As there is no mainatined elog package for Debian anymore, I'm placing it here in the hope that it might come in handy for users who want to run elog under Debian.

This script needs to be placed in /etc/init.d and expects elogd to be installed as /usr/sbin/elogd (can be changed, of course).