>  
> > Hi Kenzo,
> > I think it would help me to understand your problem, if you would provide a minimal configuration file with two
> > logbooks.
> > 
> > There is no ELOG internal feature to propagate data from one logbook to another; 
> > using a shell script is the only method I know.
> > But you could easily put your script into the background: 
> > ELOG can handle multiple parallel request, by handling one request after the other.
> > 
> > Kind Regards, Andreas
> 
> Hi Andreas
> 
> Im using python to do the scripting. Everything works fine until it comes to submitting the entry to my logbook.
> The extractTable.py file is the one running the command to submit to elog.
> I see now that im starting a subprocess in my python script (subprocess.call) and thats why its not finishing.
> Could you perhaps suggest how I would go about doing this by putting my scripts in the
> background? I might have to look at multiprocessing in python as well. The reason im using python is because im
> doing alot of file processing as well. I do have to add that this method works perfectly when i just run the python
> on its own. As soon as i run it by submiting an elog entrie from the browser it hangs on the subprocess.call method.
> 
> Regards, Kenzo

Hi Andreas

I sorted my problem out, I had to use threading in python such that I can time the submissions to the elog server.
Everything works fine now. Thank you for the assistance.

Regards
Kenzo