> is there any way to get a larger text box to type in when making a new post?
> the default box is rather small and you have to scroll up and down when
> making a new post or editing an existing one.

Message width = <number of characters>
Message height = <number of lines>
 
> can the normal text look like the html does without submitting it as html?

No. 

> Since updating to version 2.5.8 we have been having problems with the elogd 
> service crashing whenever anyone attempts to log out. We are using stunnel 
> 4.09 on a Win 2k system.

This problem has finally been identified and fixed. Please download the newest
version 2.5.9-2 which contains this fix.

> I would like to have the author email addresses listed only for users which
> have logged in, but not for guest users. In the elogd.cfg file I have:
> 
> Attributes = Author, Author Email, Category, Subject
> Guest Display = Author, Category, Subject, Text
> 
> But these attributes
> 
>   ID Date Author Author Email Category Subject Text
> 
> are shown also when visting the logbook as a guest. For the guests I would
> like to show only these attributes
> 
>   ID Date Author Category Subject Text
> 
> Any ideas what I am doing wrong or why this does not work?

Guest List Display = Author, Category, Subject, Text
      ^^^^

- Stefan

> What is the recommended version of gcc to use with elog 2.5.9?  I searched
> the discussion database but found nothing pertaining to this. 

Well, the same code compiles on gcc and on Visual C++ under Windows, so
hopefully there is no dependence on the gcc version (;-)

I use gcc 3.2.3 on Scientific Linux 3.03.

> I ask because I get a dependency that I did not have before with 2.5.3. 
> Compiling with my same 'ole gcc 2.95.2 I see that I now need mxml.h and
> strlcpy.h.  Trying to compile under gcc 3.4 results in all kinds of errors.

mxml.h and strlcpy.h are part of the elog tar ball. When untar'ed, they get copied
into a separate directory:

...
-rwxr-xr-x ritt/lke      15090 2005-05-09 13:09:54 elog-2.5.9/eloglang.japanese
-rwxr-xr-x ritt/lke      17587 2005-05-09 13:09:54 elog-2.5.9/eloglang.spanish
drwxr-xr-x ritt/lke          0 2005-05-09 13:09:54 mxml/
-rwxr-xr-x ritt/lke      45577 2005-05-09 13:09:54 mxml/mxml.c
-rwxr-xr-x ritt/lke       2198 2005-05-09 13:09:54 mxml/strlcpy.c
-rwxr-xr-x ritt/lke       4359 2005-05-09 13:09:54 mxml/mxml.h
-rwxr-xr-x ritt/lke        567 2005-05-09 13:09:54 mxml/strlcpy.h

I have right now no access to 3.4. Once I get it, I will address the errors
occuring there.

> Ok, now I see the issue - the tar extract created the mxml directory in the root (not
> under the created directory elog-2.5.9).  Is there a reason why these includes are not
> placed in the src dir like the regex.h/.c include?

Yes. I use these files in several other projects as well, and want to maintain only a
single copy. So I have

elogd-x.x.x/
elogd-x.x.x/src/
....
mxml/
mxml/strlcpy.h
mxml/strlcpy.c
mxml/mxml.c
mxml/mxml.c
...
other-project-x.x.x/
other-project-x.x.x/

So both elogd and "other-project" can use strlcpy.c and mxml.c. If I would copy it to
elogd-x.x.x/src and fix a bug there, "other-project" would use a separate copy and not
profit from the bug fix. So I would have to mainain verious copies of the same file, which
make things complicated. I compile everything also under windows, so I cannot use soft
links. If there is a better way of how to do it, please let me know.

[ritt@pc5082 /tmp]$ tar -xzvf elog-2.5.9-2.tar.gz
elog-2.5.9/
elog-2.5.9/doc/
elog-2.5.9/doc/adminguide.html
...
mxml/
mxml/mxml.c
mxml/strlcpy.c
mxml/mxml.h
mxml/strlcpy.h
[ritt@pc5082 /tmp]$ cd elog-2.5.9
[ritt@pc5082 elog-2.5.9]$ make
gcc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -o elog src/elog.c
gcc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -c -o regex.o src/regex.c
... skipping warnings ...
gcc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -c -o mxml.o ../mxml/mxml.c
gcc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -c -o strlcpy.o ../mxml/strlcpy.c
gcc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -I../mxml -o elogd src/elogd.c regex.o
mxml.o strlcpy.o
gcc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -o elconv src/elconv.c
[ritt@pc5082 elog-2.5.9]$

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No undefined functions here. I guess you have an old Makefile? Just use the complete tar
package from the last version.