My logbook kept crashing whenever I tried to reply to an existing entry. I found that the percent sign "%", when used in the subject line, will crash the elogd service when you try to reply to the entry. This appears to only happen with windows installations. I tested this on your Linux logbook and it didn't crash.

Here is the message taken from the Windows event viewer after the crash:
An unhandled win32 exception occurred in elogd.exe [5224].

Thank you for Elog, you have done a good job with it.  It is a great logbook.

Mike

I could not reproduce your problem. I tried the very simple config file:

[Demo]
Attributes = Author, Subject

and the problem did not occur (see attachment). Can you try the most recent version (elog280-4.exe) with this simple configuration. Maybe you have a more complicated configuration which causes the problem. In that case please send it to me, so that I can reproduce the problem.

[Demo]
Attributes = Author, Subject

 Thank you Stefan for your help on this. I am using version 2.8.0 built Aug 2, 2010 rev 2312. I tried your configuration file and the problem did not occur. Using my config file the elogd crashes using the % sign in the subject when replying to the entry. So the problem is something in my config file. After checking through my config file and remming out individual lines and testing, I found that the following statement is causing the problem:

Preset on reply subject = Re: $Subject

I was using this to put the "Re:" on the replies.

The only problem now is I don't get the "Re:" in the subject on replies. Am I doing something wrong to cause this? My config file is attached.

Thanks,
Mike

[Demo]
Attributes = Author, Subject

Thanks for your detailed report. Actually the problem only happens if you have Re: $Subject and a '%' in the subject line. So you were the first one encountering this situation. I fixed it in release elog280-5 which you can download now.

Hi, 

I am playing with the elog automatic subscription script, but somehow I am failing in submitting an entry. 
I am using a syntax as this:

echo test | elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 8085 -d /usr/local/elogbooks/Elog -l "Sub Elog" -a "Type=MyType" -x -u user passwd

and I get a message which says: 
"cannot get host name: Success"

which seems contradictory and also there is no entry submitted. 

The command is executed on the host where the elog is running, the port and directory are taken from the cfg File. 

What is my mistake, where is my misunderstanding of the documentation?

Any hints appreciated. 

Erik

> Hi, 
> 
> I am playing with the elog automatic subscription script, but somehow I am failing in submitting an entry. 
> I am using a syntax as this:
> 
> echo test | elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 8085 -d /usr/local/elogbooks/Elog -l "Sub Elog" -a "Type=MyType" -x -u user passwd
> 
> and I get a message which says: 
> "cannot get host name: Success"
> 
> which seems contradictory and also there is no entry submitted. 
> 
> The command is executed on the host where the elog is running, the port and directory are taken from the cfg File. 
> 
> What is my mistake, where is my misunderstanding of the documentation?
> 
> Any hints appreciated. 
> 
> Erik

The "-d" option is certainly wrong. This is only used when running elog under Apache. But otherwise it should work. I 
tried it myself and it went fine. Try to add a "-v" flag to see verbose output.

Is it possible to include more than one style attribute in a "Cell Style" directive?

For example, if I want to change the background color and text color for a given cell:

Cell Style Status Fixed  = background-color:green;color:white

If so, what is the proper way to encode it?

Thanks,

Terry

Your syntax is correct. If you try a big font for example

     Cell Style Status Fixed  = background-color:green;font-size:40px

it will work. The problem here is that the text decoration is defined differently since it's a link. The CSS defines these style via

/* standard link colors and decorations */
a:link { color:#0000FF; text-decoration:none }
a:visited { color:#800080; text-decoration:none }
a:hover { color:#0000FF; text-decoration:underline }
a:active { color:#0000FF; text-decoration:underline }
a:focus { color:#0000FF; text-decoration:underline }

 I have server with SunOS 5.11:

uname -a

SunOS *** 5.11 snv_134 i86pc i386 i86pc

when I try to compile ELog I get error:

gmake

gcc  -DHAVE_SSL -w -c -o crypt.o src/crypt.c

gcc  -DHAVE_SSL -I../mxml -o elog src/elog.c crypt.o -lsocket -lnsl -lssl

Undefined                       first referenced

 symbol                             in file

MAX                                 crypt.o

MIN                                 crypt.o

mempcpy                             crypt.o

_ast_strtoul                        crypt.o

_ast_realloc                        crypt.o

ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to elog

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

gmake: *** [elog] Error 1

The crypt.c file is not from me, so there might be some issues on other OSes. I defined now at least MIN/MAX by hand, and also removed mempcpy. The new version is attached. Can you try again to compile it? The strtoul and realloc are nomal C functions, maybe you have to add some other libraries for linking, but I'm not an expert for SunOS. 

 Hi,

In version 2.6.5-1844 we received email like picture below.

 Een ouder bericht is op vlap05.nmlan.net gewijzigd:

02-11-2010
.\SenN\Proclib\Server Windows 2008 R2 role IIS toevoegen v01.doc
-----------------------------------------------------
05-11-2010
Server Windows 2008 R2 role IIS toevoegen v02.doc: De wijzigingen betreffen het verplaatsen van Inetpub van c:\ naar e:\
Op VLIS27 en VLSQL05 staat de inetpub nu op e:, op de VLSQL04 (NMLITE Testserver) staat de inetpub nog op c:

When upgraded to version 2.8.0-2331 we receive the email like below whitout the frame:

Een nieuw ELOG bericht is bezorgd:  Logboek: NMLAN  Bericht ID: 927    Geef de tijd op: 5-11-2010 23:07:40 Author: Marty Jansen  Type: QuickChange  Category: Software  Subject: Elog - Update

Vanwege verbeterde mogelijkheden in de editor (fckeditor), ELOG geupdate van versie 2.6.5-1844 naar versie 2.8.0.-2331

ELOG V2.8.0-2331

Any idea how to get the HTML format email back?

Marty

 Sat Nov 6 14:47:16 2010

It looks strange but when I copy and past the message, like I did here,  the HTML format is OK, but not when I receive the email in Outlook. This used to be OK with the previous version.

Nothing has changed in Outlook

The email notification contains the basic HTML code and an (external) reference to the underlying CSS. I use for example Thunderbird instead of Outlook, and this program asks me if I should "show remote content". Only if I click yes, then the external CSS is loaded. Outlook might also have an option "view as web page" or so. The old format did not use full HTML and therefore was displayed correctly. This can be changed with the email encoding = ... option.

Is there a way to add a button to the elog interface which would execute a python command?

No, there are only the options

execute new = ...

execute edit = ...

execute delete = ...

though which you can execute external scripts. Maybe this is enough? 

We have multiple users for a single elog.  Aside from making an entry only editable by the author, is there a way to secure the entry if it is being edited so that only one user may edit a particular entry at one time?

Also, is there a way to auto-submit entries after x minutes?

Your help and support are appreciated.

Harley

You can use

use lock = 1

as described in the documentation. Auto-submission is on the wishlist and will be implemented in the not-so-far future. 

Nasty nasty. I prepared a longish post and only because I forgot to click an Icon of choice, all my message is lost.

Thus in short:

openssl/ssl.h isn't there.

I assume I got to get it from openssl.org.

But where do I put it in the compilation tree?

--

Christoph

 Replying to my own post: libdev-ssl wasn't installed.

--

Christoph