• A bug which has been fixed in meantime. If you can give a try to 2.6.2-1750 or so that could help. I'm not sure if this version is already in the Debian distribution since I'm not the maintainer there.
  
• A corrupted log file. If one of the YYMMDDa.log file get some garbage (maybe due to hard disk problems etc.) the elogd server can run into an infinite loop. In that case examine all log files to see if there is anything wrong. If so, edit it manually and restart elogd.
  
• Some not yet found bug. One never can exclude this of course, but at this forum I have elogd running under similar conditions like you, and it runs for months without problems.
  

Hello,

   Thank you for such a great software package!

   I would like to ask how I can display the Revisions field in the single entry view but not in the list view. I followed the FAQ instructions and added the following to my elodg.cfg:

   Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject, Revisions
   Locked attributes = Revisions
   Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions
$date by $long_name

   This configuration shows the Revisions field in both the list view and the single entry view. This was a problem because certain entries are changed a lot so they took up a lot of horizontal space in the list view. I tried to remove the Revisions field in the list view but keep them in the single entry view with the following:

   Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
   Show Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject, Revisions
   Locked attributes = Revisions
   Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions
$date by $long_name

   This took the Revisions field out of the list view and also the single entry view. However, the fields that were shown in the single entry view ended up as Author, Type, Category, Subject, Author (again).

   The last attempt were with the following configuration lines:

   Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
   Show Attributes = Revisions
   Locked attributes = Revisions
   Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions
$date by $long_name

   This showed Author, Type, Category, Subject in the list view but only the Author field in the single entry view.

   How can I configure Elog to show the Revisions field in the single entry view but no the list view?

Thanks,
   - Dan

Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Show Attributes = Revisions
Locked attributes = Revisions
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions $date by $long_name
List Display = ID, Date, Author, Type, Category, Subject

Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject, Revisions
Show Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject, Revisions
Locked attributes = Revisions
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions $date by $long_name
List Display = ID, Date, Author, Type, Category, Subject

Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Show Attributes = Revisions
Locked attributes = Revisions
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions $date by $long_name
List Display = ID, Date, Author, Type, Category, Subject

 I use Google Chrome for web browsing these days..  I've had serious issues with surfing some of the pages of our ELOG V2.7.5-2130 site.  For instance, I can surf directly to our url to create a new entry (http://changelog.company.com/Company+IT+Change+Log/?cmd=New) and see the page just fine.  But when I click on the header to go back to the main page (http://changelog.company.com/Company+IT+Change+Log/) I end up with this error:

This webpage is not available.

But when I visit the DEMO elog site (http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Linux%20Demo/) it pulls right up just fine..  My site also works in IE without problems.

Any ideas?  I run our ELOG on windows server.. maybe that has something to do with it..

> Any ideas? I run our ELOG on windows server.. maybe that has something to do with it.

I am running the server on kubuntu 8.x, and have the same issue with chrome 1.x.
Is is possible the corporate elog server is running behind apache or in some
other proxy config while the one you are having issues with is being connected
to directly by chrome?

-- rouilj

> > Any ideas? I run our ELOG on windows server.. maybe that has something to do with it.
> 
> I am running the server on kubuntu 8.x, and have the same issue with chrome 1.x.
> Is is possible the corporate elog server is running behind apache or in some
> other proxy config while the one you are having issues with is being connected
> to directly by chrome?
> 
> -- rouilj

So, is your kubuntu elog server internal only, as well?  My elog server on windows is an internal only server.. 
and there is no proxy or firewall between chrome and the elog server.. I didn't set it up, but I think elogd runs 
it's own web service.. probably apache within the win32 port.

It's good to know someone else has the issue, at least.  I'd like to find a publicly available elog server so 
that the elog developers could recreate the issue and thusly fix the issue.  Or at the very least send the broken 
URL to Google Chrome developers to see if it's a bug in the browser or not.

I ran wireshark to capture what happens at the ethernet level, and it seems that the HTTP response doesn't come 
through properly.  My response packets to the TCP response packets seems to be:

"Acknowledgment number: Broken TCP. The acknowledge field is nonzero while the ACK flag is not set"
My system never receives enough TCP packets to reassemble it to a properly formatted HTTP response.


The stream goes like this:
GET /Company+IT+Change+Log/ HTTP/1.1 
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) 
Chrome/1.0.154.42 Safari/525.19 
Referer: http://changelog.Company.com/Company+IT+Change+Log/?cmd=New 
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,bzip2,sdch 
Cookie: unm=Name; upwd=amhpbGoijoihbmQ=; urem=1 
Accept-Language: en-US,en 
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,*,utf-8 
Host: changelog.Company.com 
Connection: Keep-Alive 
 
HTTP/1.1 200 Document follows 
Server: ELOG HTTP 2.7.5-2130 
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 
Set-Cookie: elmode=Summary; path=/Company+IT+Change+Log; expires=Tuesday, 09-Jun-20 12:31:45 GMT; 
 path=/Company+IT+Change+Log; 
Connection: Keep-Alive 
Keep-Alive: timeout=60, max=10 
Pragma: no-cache 
Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT 
Content-Length: 24455 
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<title>ELOG Company IT Change Log</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.png" type="image/png" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ELOG Company IT Change Log" href="elog.rdf" />
</head>
<body>
<form name="form1" method="GET" action=".">

<table class="frame" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><!-- show_standard_title -->

<tr><td class="tabs">
<span class="sltab"><a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/" title="Company 
TI">Company&nbsp;IT&nbsp;Change&nbsp;Log</a></span>
</td></tr>

<tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td class="title1">&nbsp;&nbsp;Company TI, Page 1 of 272&nbsp;</td>
<td class="title2">Logged in as "My Name"</td>
<td class="title3"><img border=0 src="elog.png" alt="ELOG logo" title="ELOG logo"></td>
</tr></table></td></tr>

<tr><td class="menuframe"><span class="menu1">
&nbsp;<a href="?cmd=New">New</a>&nbsp;|
&nbsp;<a href="?cmd=Find">Find</a>&nbsp;|
&nbsp;<a href="?select=1">Select</a>&nbsp;|
&nbsp;<a href="?cmd=Import">Import</a>&nbsp;|
&nbsp;<a href="?cmd=Config">Config</a>&nbsp;|
&nbsp;<a href="?cmd=Logout">Logout</a>&nbsp;|
&nbsp;<a href="?cmd=Help">Help</a>&nbsp;
</span></td></tr>

<tr><td class="menuframe">
<table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="menu2a">
&nbsp;<a href="?mode=full">Full</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;Summary&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="?
mode=threaded">Threaded</a>&nbsp;</td>
<td class="menu2b">
<a href="?new_entries=1"><img align="middle" border="0" src="new_entry.png" alt="Show only new entries" 
title="Show only new entries"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<select title="Select period" name=last 
onChange="document.form1.submit()">
<option value="_all_">-- All entries --
<option  value=1>Last day
<option  value=7>Last week
<option  value=31>Last month
<option  value=92>Last 3 Months
<option  value=182>Last 6 Months
<option  value=364>Last Year
</select>
<select title="Select Type" name="Type" onChange="document.form1.submit()">
<option value="_all_">-- Type --
<option value="^Hardware$">Hardware
<option value="^Software$">Software
<option value="^Database$">Database
<option value="^Network$">Network
<option value="^NGS Applications$">NGS Applications
<option value="^Storage$">Storage
<option value="^Monitor$">Monitor
<option value="^VMware$">VMware
</select> 
<noscript>
<input type=submit value="Search">
</noscript>
&nbsp;<b>5429 Entries</b>&nbsp;</td></tr></table></td></tr>

<tr><td class="menuframe"><span class="menu3">
Goto page 
1, 
<a href="page2">2</a>, 
<a href="page3">3</a>&nbsp;...&nbsp;<a href="page270">270</a>, 
<a href="page271">271</a>, 
<a href="page272">272</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="page2">Next</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><table class="listframe" width="100%" cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=ID">ID</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Date">Date</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Author">Author</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Author+Email">Author Email</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Type">Type</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Category">Category</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Subject">Subject</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Last+Revision">Last Revision</a></th>
<th  class="listtitle"><a href="?sort=Reason+for+Change">Reason for Change</a></th>
<th class="listtitle">Text</th>
<th class="listtitle"><img src="attachment.png" alt="Attachments" title="Attachments"</th></tr>

<tr><td class="list2">
<a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431">&nbsp;&nbsp;5431&nbsp;&nbsp;</a>
</td>

<td class="list2" nowrap><a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431">1/9/2009 4:40:54 PM</a></td>
<td class="list2"><a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431">Gary</a></td><td class="list2"><a 
href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431"><a href="gmercier@Company.com">gmercier@Company.com</a></a></td><td 
class="list2"><a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431">Applications</a></td><td class="list2"><a 
href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431">Patch - Hotfix</a></td><td class="list2"><a 
href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431">PRN 18718 Update</a></td><td class="list2"><a 
href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431"></a>&nbsp;</td><td class="list2"><a 
href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5431"></a>&nbsp;</td><td class="summary">A</td>
<td class="listatt">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><tr><td class="list1">
<a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5430">&nbsp;&nbsp;5430&nbsp;&nbsp;</a>
</td>

<td class="list1" nowrap><a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5430">1/9/2009 4:37:01 PM</a></td>
<td class="list1"><a href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5430">Gary</a></td><td class="list1"><a 
href="../Company+IT+Change+Log/5430"><a href="gary@compan


Then the stream just aborts, apparently.

> > > Any ideas? I run our ELOG on windows server.. maybe that has something to do with it.
> > 
> > I am running the server on kubuntu 8.x, and have the same issue with chrome 1.x.
> > Is is possible the corporate elog server is running behind apache or in some
> > other proxy config while the one you are having issues with is being connected
> > to directly by chrome?
>
> It's good to know someone else has the issue, at least.  I'd like to find a publicly available elog server so 
> that the elog developers could recreate the issue and thusly fix the issue.  Or at the very least send the broken 
> URL to Google Chrome developers to see if it's a bug in the browser or not.

I just brought up the current head release of elog, and the problem is fixed. Looks like it 
was some sort of cookie issue IIRC the log entry.

So build a new elogd and you should be all set.

- rouilj

> > > > Any ideas? I run our ELOG on windows server.. maybe that has something to do with it.
> > > 
> > > I am running the server on kubuntu 8.x, and have the same issue with chrome 1.x.
> > > Is is possible the corporate elog server is running behind apache or in some
> > > other proxy config while the one you are having issues with is being connected
> > > to directly by chrome?
> >
> > It's good to know someone else has the issue, at least.  I'd like to find a publicly available elog server so 
> > that the elog developers could recreate the issue and thusly fix the issue.  Or at the very least send the broken 
> > URL to Google Chrome developers to see if it's a bug in the browser or not.
> 
> I just brought up the current head release of elog, and the problem is fixed. Looks like it 
> was some sort of cookie issue IIRC the log entry.
> 
> So build a new elogd and you should be all set.
> 
> - rouilj

Thanks.  I'll have to wait for someone else to build the win32 binary, as I'm not set up to compile it myself.

> > > > > Any ideas? I run our ELOG on windows server.. maybe that has something to do with it.
> > > > 
> > > > I am running the server on kubuntu 8.x, and have the same issue with chrome 1.x.
> > > > Is is possible the corporate elog server is running behind apache or in some
> > > > other proxy config while the one you are having issues with is being connected
> > > > to directly by chrome?
> > >
> > > It's good to know someone else has the issue, at least.  I'd like to find a publicly available elog server so 
> > > that the elog developers could recreate the issue and thusly fix the issue.  Or at the very least send the broken 
> > > URL to Google Chrome developers to see if it's a bug in the browser or not.
> > 
> > I just brought up the current head release of elog, and the problem is fixed. Looks like it 
> > was some sort of cookie issue IIRC the log entry.
> > 
> > So build a new elogd and you should be all set.
> > 
> > - rouilj
> 
> Thanks.  I'll have to wait for someone else to build the win32 binary, as I'm not set up to compile it myself.

I installed the latest Windows build (didn't realize I missed a build in November), and it now works in Chrome.  Thanks!

Hi, All.  We have been successfully using ELOG in a limited deployment for a couple years now.  However, we are about to embark on a new project that could run for up to 10 years, and are wondering what sort of scalability we can expect from ELOG.

Are there any problems we can expect to run into as the number of entries grow?  I see in a previous thread that "elog runs fine for a few 10000 entries. At 100000 entries it starts getting slow."  Is this still the case, or have any improvements been made?  What sort of problems would we expect to run into?  Any examples of existing large deployments would be very useful.

Many thanks,

Devin 

The above made statement is not true any more. Mainly due to the large CERN experiments, some speed improvements have been made in late 2007. So elog runs fine at least up to 100000 entries. The startup time might be a bit slow, since it parses all entries there, but beyond the maybe 20s startup time, there is not a big difference when browsing entries. The only peoblem left is if you try to search some text through 100000 entries, this could be a bit slow. I have not tried anhything beyond 100000 entries, because this was not requested so far. If logooks become too big, the entreis could be split into several logbooks. Even if there are several logbooks with 100000 entries each, the access time should not be slower than if there would be one logbook with 100000 entries.

Hi,

after setting

Date format = %Y-%m-%e

in elogd.cfg,

elogd hangs and must be restarted manually. Can anybody help me?

Thanks,

Steve

 I found my mistake:It must be

Date format = %Y-%m-%d

Steve

Hi,

One of my logbooks is a fault reporting system; it emails a group of people when a fault is reported. There is an MOption 'Technical Groups', and I want to have a tooltip for each checkbox which shows who is referred to by each group name. However, individual tooltips for each MOption attribute don't seem to work. I've looked at the HTML code, and there's no 'title' attribute for the checkboxes, so it's not a browser problem. I've attached my config file. Any idea what's going wrong?

ben

The syntax for tooltips is

Tooltip <attribute option> = <tooltip>

but you have

Tooltip "<attribute>" "<attribute option>" = <tooltip>

which is not correct, but would make more sense, since you could have an attribut option being valid for several attributes. So I changed elogd to accept both syntax in revision 2158. Please note that you should not put "quotes" around attribute values or options.

 Thanks! I got rid of the quotes around everything, and it works now.

ben

Hi Stefan.

I have been "playing" around with this great tool and found an interesting "issue" ...

I use multiple logbooks and have both "Protect Selection page = 1" and "Expand Selection Page = 1".

When I open my elog, I get a Standard Login Screen with the Standard Bottom Text "ELOG V2.7.5-2130" which will link to your this website.

When I "Logout" and "Login" again from the Logbook page, I get another Login Screen with my own "Bottom text login" which will link to my own elog page.

How can I apply my own Bottom Text to the Standard Login Screen ?

Thanks & Regards, Barend
 

 By using the configuration option "Bottom Text Login = ..."

Stefan,

I have defined the "Bottom Text Login = ..." in each Logbook Configuration section. But when I use this option in the Global Section, ELOG fails to start.

Barend

 That's strange. I just tried myself following configuration file:

[global]
port = 8080
Bottom text = <center>Hello</center>
Bottom text login = <center>Login Hello</center>
Password file = passwd

[demo1]
Comment = General linux tips & tricks
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Options Type = Routine, Software Installation, Problem Fixed, Configuration, Other
Page Title = ELOG - $subject

[demo2]
Comment = General linux tips & tricks
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject

and everything works fine as can be seen from the login screen:

so can you check if above file works for you?

[global]
port = 8080
Bottom text = Hello
Bottom text login = Login Hello
Password file = passwd

[demo1]
Comment = General linux tips & tricks
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Options Type = Routine, Software Installation, Problem Fixed, Configuration, Other
Page Title = ELOG - $subject

[demo2]
Comment = General linux tips & tricks
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject

 Hi Stefan,

Hope you have enjoyed the Christmas week.

Sorry for the delay.... I have tested your configuration and it worked for me as well. 

In order to determine, which of my settings is causing the problem, I had to activate each individual entry "one by one" and check if the error re-occured. I finally identified following entry "Protect Selection page = 1"

The error also occurs if I change your configuration into:

[global]
port = 8080
Bottom text = <center>Hello</center>
Bottom text login = <center>Login Hello</center>
Password file = passwd
Protect Selection page = 1

[demo1]
Comment = General linux tips & tricks
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Options Type = Routine, Software Installation, Problem Fixed, Configuration, Other
Page Title = ELOG - $subject

[demo2]
Comment = General linux tips & tricks
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
 

Can you advise if I'm missing an entry in order for "Protect Selection page = 1" to work?

"Schönen Rutsch ins neue Jahr".

Regards, 

Barend

Hi all,

i have problems with execute delete (execute new works fine) in following config (the attribute 'Counter' will not evaluated). Can anybody help me?

Here is the config:

Attributes = Counter, Autor, Adressat, Start, Ende, Mitteilung, TextBeachten

Show Attributes = Counter, Autor, Adressat, Start, Ende, Mitteilung, TextBeachten
Show Attributes Edit = Counter, Autor, Adressat, Start, Ende, Mitteilung, TextBeachten


Type Start = date
Type Ende = date
Required Attributes =  Autor, Adressat, Start, Ende, Mitteilung
Extendable options = Adressat
Preset Autor = $long_name
Preset Counter = SoMi-#####



Locked Attributes = Autor, Counter
Required Attributes =  Adressat, Start, Ende, Mitteilung

Options Adressat = Alle, 1. Semester, 2. Semester, 3. Semester, 4. Semester, 5. Semester, 6. Semester, 7. Semester, 8. Semester
MOptions Textbeachten = Bitte Mitteilungs-Text anzeigen lassen



Execute new = C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysql.exe -h localhost -u root -p123456 -D screen -e "insert into somi (counter,adressat,start,ende,kumi,mitlami,lami) values ('$Counter', '$Adressat', '$Start', '$Ende', '$Mitteilung',  '$TextBeachten', '$text')"


Execute delete = C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysql.exe -h localhost -u root -p123456 -D screen -e "delete from somi where counter='$Counter'"

Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas!!

Steve

Attribute substitution on 'execute delete' was not implemented, since I thought that the ELOG message ID would be used as the primary key in an SQL database, so one would not need the attributes. I added howver this functrionality in SVN revision 2159, so the next release will contain this fix. 

 This sounds very good! Thank you very much (Could you please add this functionality for execute edit too? Please :-))

Steve

For 'execute edit' this worked from the beginning. 

 Thank you!