Hi there. Just started recently set up the application and think its very usable and easily configured - great stuff

I'm looking to roll it out to the masses but have a slight logistical problem in that we work on 2 separate networks - NET1 with connection to the internet, and NET2 physically isolated from NET1 and the internet.

It would be desirable to allow users to add/update/delete logs from both NET1 and NET2 with periodic synchronisation.

I believe the mirroring facility is what should be used, and think the following setup and synchronisation steps may be workable:

Setup:

• elog installed on node of NET1
• elog installed on 2 nodes of NET2
• elog server running on NET1 and node1 of NET2 both using a common elogd.cfg

Performing Synchronisation:

1. Stop the server on NET1
2. copy logbook directories from NET1 to node2 of NET2
3. start server on node2 of NET2 using the -M option
4. once above complete, copy logbook directories from node 2 NET2 to NET1
5. Start the server on NET1

Am I on the right track?

Would very much appreciate your comments and advice on the above.

Cheers Dougie

 A couple of comments:

• In principle you could use one elogd.cfg for two running daemons, but only if they do not modify the file. If you use "extensible attributes" for example, you would have write access. If this happens from both servers at the same time, the config file can get corrupt. This is even more true with a password file, which gets written every time a users accesses a page. If you only run one server at a time, then they can share the config file of course.
• The synchronization works bi-directional between two elog daemons. Requirement is that they have access to each other. The synchronization master acts like a "browser" to the slave to send/retrieve entries. So if you can affort punching a hole into your firewall between NET1 and NET2, you could synchronize two servers directly and don't have to bother with three servers. If you have however really physically separated nets, such that you need a memory stick to transport data from one net to the other, then indeed you need the above described scenario. I never tried it in this way, but in principle it should work.

Jul  9 19:05:00 elogd[27009]: Falling back to default group "elog"
Jul  9 19:05:00 elogd[27009]: Falling back to default user "elog"
Jul  9 19:05:02 elogd[27009]: Cannot restore original GID/UID.
Jul  9 19:05:02 elogd[27009]: Cannot remove pidfile "/var/run/elogd.pid" ; Permission denied
Jul  9 19:05:05 elogd[27013]: Falling back to default group "elog"
Jul  9 19:05:05 elogd[27013]: Falling back to default user "elog"
Jul  9 19:05:05 elogd[27013]: Cannot restore original GID/UID.
Jul  9 19:05:05 elogd[27013]: Cannot remove pidfile "/var/run/elogd.pid" ; Permission denied
Jul  9 19:05:05 elogd[27016]: Falling back to default group "elog"
Jul  9 19:05:05 elogd[27016]: Falling back to default user "elog"
Jul  9 19:05:06 elogd[27016]: Cannot restore original GID/UID.
Jul  9 19:05:06 elogd[27016]: Cannot remove pidfile "/var/run/elogd.pid" ; Permission denied

Jul  9 19:47:08 elogd[27335]: elogd server aborted.

Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27359]: elogd 2.7.3 built Apr 18 2008, 14:08:31 
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27359]: revision 2104
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27359]: Falling back to default group "elog"
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27359]: Falling back to default user "elog"
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27360]: Falling back to default group "elog"
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27360]: Falling back to default user "elog"
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27360]: Cannot restore original GID/UID.
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27360]: Cannot remove pidfile "/var/run/elogd.pid" ; Permission denied
Jul  9 19:47:16 elogd[27359]: ImageMagick detected

Hi,

I have defined a quick filter based on an icon attribute and it does not work: no result. I have defined something like your "forum elog" (with Icon comment ): in the quick filter, i see the comments (that a good thing) but whatever i'm selecting, i have no entry.

Is it a bug or i miss something in the configuration ?

Regards

ELOG is a really helpful application

Thanks a lot !!

I tried to reproduce your problem, but it worked fine for me. I used in elog.cfg:

[demo]
Attributes = Icon, Author, Type, Last Edit, Subject
IOptions Icon = icon1.gif, icon2.gif, icon3.gif, icon4.gif, icon5.gif, icon6.gif, icon7.gif, icon8.gif, icon12.gif, icon13.gif, icon14.gif
Quick filter = Icon

Then I entered two entries with different icons, and I selected the quick filter. It correctly showed me the entry with the icon I selected:

 Yes you're right, but i want to see the comment in the quickfilter list, not the name of the icon :

[MyLogBook]

List Display             = Auteur, Destinataire, Etat, Réponse, Rapport
Attributes               = Auteur, Destinataire, Etat, Réponse, Rapport

IOptions Etat            = icon3.gif, icon13.gif, icon14.gif, icon2.gif

Icon comment icon3.gif   = Suggestion
Icon comment icon13.gif  = Réfusée
Icon comment icon14.gif  = Retenue
Icon comment icon2.gif   = Réportée

Quick filter             = Auteur, Date, Etat, Destinataire

All the entries:

 When i'm selecting the quickfilter, it should display the entry "arthur":

Ok, now I got the point. I fixed this problem in elog revision #2114. Quick filters are now working with icons:

Thanks a lot

We use elog for (amongst other things) a simple change management log.  About two dozen users allowed to do updates and their email addresses are listed at the bottom of the page to allow any of them to be included on circulation for a change request.  The email addresses appear in the order that they were added (i.e. apparently random).  Is there any way to sort these, ideally by Last part of Full Name/First part of Full Name, but login name or email address would be OK?

Thanks for a great piece of software.

Steve

Ok, I added sorting for "museremail" and "muserlist" type of attributes. Sorting is simply done by sorting the email addresses and first part of full name, respectively. The change is implemented in SVN revision #2115.

Just upgraded to v2.7.4 and really like the new editor but I need to be able to browse for the correct file when inserting a hyperlink.  I looked into CKfinder but can't see how to use this with ELOG.  Can anyone help?  We have been using ELOG in our control center for about a year and it is working out great!

CKfinder is a tool to browse the server, not the client where the web browser is running if I understand correctly. ELOG only supports attachment and inline images residing on the client side, so you browse with the file selector of your web browser. Or did I understand you incorrectly?

Thanks for the reply Stefan and thanks for making this program available - where can we send a donation?

When I click 'InsertLink' in the FCKeditor I get an 'Explorer User Promp' popup asking me to enter the name of the hyperlink.  After I enter the name I get 'Enter URL of hyperlink'.  Typically I want to link to a file on a mapped drive but I would prefer to browse to the file location and select the file rather than type it in.

You can donate here by clicking the donate link at the ELOG page.

If you want to attach a file from a mapped drive you click on the "Browse..." button at the bottom of the ELOG page:

I am setting this up as instrument log in a multi-hospital system, where there will be multiple instruments, in multiple departments, at multiple facilities.

I am using the "Top Group" function to keep the books separate so operators from one instrument/department/facility don't contaminate another instrument/department/facility's logbook.

What I am wondering is there someway to set it up so that a system wide manager could post a message to 5 individual logbooks for 5 identical instruments at 5 different locations all at once (one ELOG server)?

I hope this made sense.  Thank you for your help.

Unfortunately this is not possible at the moment. You would have to use the menu command "copy to" and enable it for the admin user. Then you create your entry, and click on "copy to" once for each location you want to copy this entry.

I found a way to get this to work.  Define a "Messages" logbook for the messages to be broadcast.  None of the user installations need access to it. Use "Execute new = " to execute a script calling the elog command line client passing the message on to each target logbook.  Example:

--- elogd.cfg snippet begin ---

[Messages]

...

Execute new = mass_post.sh $text &

--- elogd.cfg snippet end ---

--- mass_post.sh begin ---

#!/bin/sh

elog -a Sender="System Administrator" -l "Logbook 1" $@

elog -a Sender="System Administrator" -l "Logbook 2" $@

elog -a Sender="System Administrator" -l "Logbook 3" $@

--- mass_post.sh end ---

The $@ expands to all the command line arguments, so the $text field, with all its spaces, gets passed correctly.  Sorry I showed you the example in bash/linux rather than in Windows, but I don't know Windows real well - you're better off translating into it yourself than my untested attempts.  The one thing I can tell you is that the "Execute new" command must include the "background fork".  In Linux this is provided by the & at the end of the line. In windows you'll need to use

Execute new = start "dummy" /min mass_post.bat

to background the process.  This is ESSENTIAL.  Without backgrounding the batch file, the elogd server will go into an infinite loop.  The parent process will wait for the child process to exit before continuing.  elogd is single-threaded, so the child process cannot start until the parent process has completed its current task (which is waiting for the child process to exit). 

You may need to tweak the above a little if you want to pass variable attributes to the script instead of defining them all in the script itself.

how can you have more than 1 heading like in this forum. Example is: Demo and Discusion and have diferent sub heading under each one?

So example if Demo is selected you get one group of tabs to select from and if Discussion is selected you get a different second set of tabs to choise from.

Thanks in adavance

You can do this by defining groups. For this forum I did

Group Demo = Linux Demo, Database
Group Discussion = Forum, Config Examples, Contributions, Vulnerabilities

where each name on the right side of the equal sign is an individual logbook.