> > 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.

Anything I could send you to help 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

Ok, i see, the problem for me now is that this attribute name has been in use for 
half a year or so by me. So now I have 100's of logbook entries with the old name 
in them, if I change it's name then all old logbook entries will show up with that 
field blank. I'm not sure if there's an easy way to change that attribute's name in 
100's of entries in 10's of logbooks, because I wouldn't want to try doing that by 
hand.. Any ideas? (i'm no good at scripting something like that 4 sure)

Thanks,
G.