> I have been running ELOG on FreeBSD no problem for a year now,
> but this new version 2.5.8-x doesn't seem to wanna work, it compiles fine 
> with a few warnings (see attached logs).
> But has issues with password files, now it shows message "Can't open 
> passwords.pwd" for all my logbooks. It did convert the password files to 
> xml format. I had a good hard look at file permissions and config file with 
> no luck. So I went back a version and compiled 2.5.7-1 which works just 
> fine with old password files. So something with XML & FreeBSD?...

Hard to say. The simplest would be if I could debug this.

> Version 2.5.7-1 (maybe this has been fixed in 2.5.8?)
> When I run a ./elogd -C http://elog.blah.here:88 it clones the config file 
> just fine, also seems to copy over all logbook entries.
> But once I look through them there's a fault with one of the fields it 
> copies over, so entries never show up.
> 
> It should be:
> ========================================
> Date: Tue Mar 01 19:41:29 2005
> In reply to: 24
> Work done by: someuser
> Work done at (dd/mm/yy hh:mm):  1/03/05 3:30pm
> Downtime duration: 0 min
> Planned: Yes
> Reason: Normal work
> Attachment:
> Encoding: plain
> 
> But once cloned it looks like this:
> ========================================
> Date: Tue Mar 01 19:41:29 2005
> In reply to: 24
> Work done by: someuser
> Work done at (dd/mm/yy hh: m):  1/03/05 3:30pm
> Downtime duration: 0 min
> Planned: Yes
> Reason: Normal work
> Attachment:
> Encoding: plain
> 
> 
> For some reason it looses the "m" so line 4 instead of having
> "hh:mm" has "hh: m"

Your problem is that the attribute "Work done at (dd/mm/yy hh:mm)" which
contains a ":". This character is not allowed in attributes. Unfortunately I did
not document this (and even didn't know this until now... (;-) ). So you should
use the new option

Type Work done at = datetime

this gives you at the entry mask fields for day/month/year/hour/minute to fill
out, so you don't have to write it directly into the attribute. Another option
would be to use 

Comment Work done at = Please enter as (dd/mm/yy hh:mm)

which just displays a comment below the attribute in the entry mask.

- Stefan