Hello

Was playing with elog. I send mail to the persons involved with a elog entrie. This mail produces something like this ( rather default) .

 Logbook: Accelerator  Message ID: 4    Entry time: 05/10/09 21:48:25     In reply to: 3

When I am logged in into elog , clicking on the Message ID 4 or 3 from the mail client , elog is started with the logged in user at that time and it's permissions.  So instead of starting a new elog session ( and getting the guest permission ) I get the permission of the currently logged in user.( Could be the administrator / root) . The process will function correctly i no one is logged in into elog. I've tested this on a local machine, so I cannot say if the same happens when multiple  machines are used. So, maybe it's a bug, maybe it's my testing  configuration. 

Do not know if i explained  the problem clear enough, but is seems something that could be examined.

By the way : thanks for this great and free program.

This is not a bug, this is a feature! Once you log in to ELOG, your credentials are stored in cookies of your local browser. If you access a logbook entry, like via the link you in your email, you still use that credentials. If you clear all cookies of your browser, or log out explicitly from ELOG, then of course you will only get guest access. 

 Thanks Stefan

This was probably a buggy bug report. Was just testing things out on a local machine and cookies were send to the local machine. so the mail was using these cookies also.

In Practice this could never happen. 

Hi,

when i try to send a form after edit or create an entry i got this message : Connection closed by remote server

is there any idea

thanks

I have my site running under apache. I don't have a /elog/ directory.

for example most would do http://www.example.com/elog/ to visit elog

but my site loads at http://www.example.com/

The site is private so it's password protected. Everything works fine except

if I click the "Forgot Password" link it does nothing.

but if I go to one of the log books...

http://www.example.com/open/

The forgot password link works.

Is there anyway to fix this? I have nothing else running on the server, it's dedicated to only ELOG.

That's why I don't want to have it running under /elog/ in the url.

Thanks for reporting this bug, I fixed it in revision 2197 which you can load from the SVN server.

Thanks for the fix. I tried out 2197 and when I click the "Forgot Password" link it causes elog to crash. I've attached my cfg file.

The problem was the password recovery in conjunction with "Bottom text", thanks for supplying your configuration file. I fixed that in revision 2198.

 That did the trick, thanks for the fix!

Submitted as a question because some folks may consider this a bug in IE (but not MS obviously because IE8 does the same).  When you upload a new open XML attachment (Office 2007 file extension, docx, ppts, xlsx, etc) the attachment is not recognized properly in IE and it tries to download as a zip file (since the OOXML is actually is a zipped set of XML docs).  This is something that is widely recognized on the Internet ( http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=docx+internet+explorer+zip&aq=1&oq=docx+internet ) but is typically resolved by adding the mime extensions at the web server level. 

Are there any plans to add the new mime extensions to the elogd.c source? (Instead of forcing users to use FireFox or Right click, save-as and rename?

http://www.bram.us/2007/05/25/office-2007-mime-types-for-iis/

Regards,

rbsterli

   {
   ".AI", "application/postscript"}, {
   ".ASC", "text/plain"}, {
   ".BZ2", "application/x-bzip2"}, {
   ".CFG", "text/plain"}, {
   ".CHRT", "application/x-kchart"}, {
   ".CONF", "text/plain"}, {
   ".CSH", "application/x-csh"}, {
   ".CSS", "text/css"}, {
   ".DOC", "application/msword"}, {
   ".DVI", "application/x-dvi"}, {
   ".EPS", "application/postscript"}, {
   ".GIF", "image/gif"}, {
   ".GZ", "application/x-gzip"}, {
   ".HTM", "text/html"}, {
   ".HTML", "text/html"}, {
   ".ICO", "image/x-icon"}, {
   ".JPEG", "image/jpeg"}, {
   ".JPG", "image/jpeg"}, {
   ".JS", "application/x-javascript"}, {
   ".KPR", "application/x-kpresenter"}, {
   ".KSP", "application/x-kspread"}, {
   ".KWD", "application/x-kword"}, {
   ".MP3", "audio/mpeg"}, {
   ".OGG", "application/x-ogg"}, {
   ".PDF", "application/pdf"}, {
   ".PNG", "image/png"}, {
   ".PS", "application/postscript"}, {
   ".RAM", "audio/x-pn-realaudio"}, {
   ".RM", "audio/x-pn-realaudio"}, {
   ".RM", "audio/x-pn-realaudio"}, {
   ".RM", "audio/x-pn-realaudio"}, {
   ".RPM", "application/x-rpm"}, {
   ".RTF", "application/rtf"}, {
   ".SH", "application/x-sh"}, {
   ".TAR", "application/x-tar"}, {
   ".TCL", "application/x-tcl"}, {
   ".TEX", "application/x-tex"}, {
   ".TGZ", "application/x-gzip"}, {
   ".TIF", "image/tiff"}, {
   ".TIFF", "image/tiff"}, {
   ".TXT", "text/plain"}, {
   ".WAV", "audio/x-wav"}, {
   ".XLS", "application/x-msexcel"}, {
   ".XML", "text/xml"}, {
   ".XSL", "text/xml"}, {
   ".ZIP", "application/x-zip-compressed"},

 Ok, I added the MIME extensions in ELOG Rev. 2196. The forum runs already the updated version, so can you try with the demo attachments from your entry?

 It looks good from here!  Thanks!!

Best Regards,

Rich

 Just like this site has Forum, Config Examples, etc.

Once you select another tab they are logged out of their logbook they just logged in to.

 Have a look at this thread Hal, worked well for me:  Link

 thanks Grant, but I dont see the solution.  your last entry still states users being logged out when switching logbooks.

Are you suggesting that every user within our orginization needs to be on the deny list of logbook1 if they have rights to logook2?

Can you try the following:

• Put your "password file = xxx" option from the [global] section in elogd.cfg into each individual logook, remove it from [global] 
• Remove all cookies from your browser
• Try again to log in to the individual logbooks

The login is handled through cookies. Once you log in, you get two cookies unm (for user name) and upwd (for user password). Each cookie contains a "path" which controls to which URL the browser sends that cookie. If you "password file = xxx" statement is under [global], then "path=/", meaning the cookie is sent for all logbooks. This confuses you if you have different rights for different logooks. If "password file = xxx" is however in each individual loogbooks configuration, then you get "path=/<lobook>". You can check that by inspecting your browser's cookies. In that case the login name and password cookies are only sent to the URL for that specific logbook. I have not tested that extensively (different browsers, with/without Apache proxy), but if it works reliably, I will put this into the documentation.

 This worked for us just fine!  thanks!

Ich möchte meine "lokale" ELOG Installation mit einem Server in der Firma synchronisieren.

Dazu habe ich in der entfernten Firewall ein Portmapping auf den ELOG Server in der Firma eingerichtet.

Wenn ich von meiner "lokalen" Maschine im Browser  http://meinedomain.dyndns.xx:PORT aufrufe, kann ich auf den ELOG Server zugreifen.

Ich habe in meiner "lokalen" Installation in der Section [global] den Mirror-Server = http://meinedomain.dyndns.xx:PORT angeben.

Beim Synchornisieren bekomme ich jedoch den Hinweis "Fehler beim Zugriff auf entfertes Logbuch".......

Please let's stick to English. Let me try to understand your configuration. You have one elog server running and want to synchronize with itself? That does not work of course, synchronizing is done between two servers (normally on different computers).

I have a logbook named "Centaur" (instrument name) for a problem log on an instrument and a logbook named "CentaurNewLot" for

a logbook (Database Like - ELOG format) where we would log reagent lot number changes for that instrument.

The problem is that when I name the logbooks, like I have, it screws up the formatting (List page) of the second log book.

If I rename the second logbook something totally unrelated to the first logbook my originally intended formatting returns.

I tried to reproduce your problem but without success. In my case the "CentaurNewLot" looks fine:

so what is different in your case? Can you try with the simple example logbook from the distribution and the add one option after the other to see which one causes the trouble?

Hi,

I am trying the Preset text option from the documentation: like:

Attributes = Author, Type
Options Type = Network check{1}, System check{2}

{1} Preset text = network.txt
{2} Preset text = system.txt

I have two questions:

1. Where are the preset text files searched from ? I guess I could put them in the logbook (and specify a relative path like in this example) but it appeared only to work when I specifiy an abcolute path. That is even better in my case.

2. How do I specify line feeds in the file ? I tried Linux and Windows new line characters - but I always end up with just  one line in my e-log. I would really like a multi-line form.

Soren

Attributes = Author, Type
Options Type = Network check{1}, System check{2}

{1} Preset text = network.txt
{2} Preset text = system.txt

 Dear Soren,

Just use HTML (and call the file network.html to remember).

Attributes = Author, Type
Options Type = Network check{1}, System check{2}

{1} Preset text = network.txt
{2} Preset text = system.txt

Without path, the file must reside in the "scripts" subdirectory.

For the multi-line form, it depends how you want to format your elog entry. If you format in "plain", the simple line breaks are sufficient. If you format in HTML, your preset file must be in HTML as well, so a line break has to be a <br> tag. If you format in ELCode, a simple line break again would be ok. 

Attributes = Author, Type
Options Type = Network check{1}, System check{2}

{1} Preset text = network.txt
{2} Preset text = system.txt

 Thanks for the hints on the "scripts" dir.  For the formatting, that's clear. I started with the sample "network.txt" file from the doc and the default encoding (HTML), so that did (of course) not render correctly (before inserting a few tags).

Soren