Dear colleagues,

I am trying to use the elogd as a service with activated shell-execution. Invoking 'elogd -x' on the command line works fine, as well as 'elogd -install'. The option 'elogd -x -install' does not seem to be implemented, so I followed two ways to get this to work:

1) creating my own service with instsrv/srvany and registry editing: starting 'elogd -x' does not work (error 1053), the -D option has to be added, to start the service without time out. But then shell execution seems to be not working, because no input to the elog is generated, but also no message saying shell execution was not enabled!

2) using 'elogd -install' and modifying the registry entry by adding the -x option to the command line in the 'HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\elogd\ImagePath': This enables shell execution, but instead of piping the output to the logbook, some DOS boxes pop up executing the shell command and terminate. No entries are generated.

Has anyone an idea?

Best regards

 Robert

I could never get shell execution work when elogd is started as a service. This has probably to do with system permissions or so under Windows. If anybody has a clue, please let me know. Under Linux this works nicely, but this is probably not an option for you...

Running through a SQL database requires a major rework of the software. I'm planning this in the long run, but not for this year. I'm also not sure how much this would buy you. If you do a full-text search on 140k entries in a SQL database (not index search), this might also take some time.

But what you can do is to "archive" part of your logbooks. Since the files are named YYMMDDa.log, you can move all 09XXXXXa.log files into a separate "archive" which you then do not include in your search.  

Uh, thank you for teaching me that something like B.E. exists. I didn't know before. Unfortunately elog relied on the underlying operating system date functions. I guess you have to convince Windows or Linux to switch to B.E., then elog will do as well. 

Just use the charset = xxx option in the configuration file. 

Is it possible to automatically go back to the list view in summary mode after submitting a new message instead of displaying the new message?

I know it's possible to display a page from a file after submitting a new message  by using "Submit Page = <file>". 
It would be nice to be able to use a command like "Submit Page = <command>" where I could insert "?cmd=Back" as in the "Start page" command.

Thanks,

Mike

I just implemented a new flag "List after submit = 1" which does exactly this. It brings you to the summary page after the submission of a new entry. I needed the function myself. The change is SVN revision 2327 and will be contained in the next release. 

I found a bug there, but am not 100% sure if it fixed your problem. Can you please try the current SVN version 2331? I made a new intermediate release elog280-4.exe for you.