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  65940   Thu Jul 31 17:22:23 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionAll2.7.3-2058Re: html code in reply window

Tom Plancon wrote:

Hello,

Recently upgraded to 2.7.3 and I'm seeing html code filling up the reply window. Before I would just see [quote] and [/quote] around the original entry. Did I miss something in the upgrade? Thanks!

 Probably you did not install the FCKeditor. Just try a reply to this message, and you will see the many formatting icons on top of the page coming from that HTML editor. Without the editor, you will only see the plain HTML. You can switch back however to the old behavior by selecting the ELCode encoding. You can make this permanent with the "Default encoding =0" option.

  65942   Mon Aug 4 09:00:43 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux2.7.3Re: deadc0de

Niklas wrote:

my ELOG sometimes dies with "deadc0de", do I have too large ELOG config or logbook? Or is it simply a bug?

What can I do to solve this problem? "ulimit"? Or some trace output from elog?

 This seems an internal memory allocation problem. Can you reproduce the error? Can you reproduce it with the minimal configuration file coming with the distribution? If you know how to run a program inside the debugger, you can send me a stack trace when the problem occurs and I can check it.

  65949   Mon Aug 11 11:02:18 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux2.7.4-2111Re: Using the command line tool to edit

T. Ribbrock wrote:

I intend to create a script that updates one of our elog logbooks based on mails it receives. I was hoping to be able to do this using the "elog" command line tool. Adding a new entry works fine, as does "replying" to an existing entry. The only thing I cannot get to work is editing an existing entry. All entries ahve several attributes and I intend not to use the "message" itself. I tried the following (on the machine this elogd is running on):

  1. Create a new entry with Attribute1 set to "value":

    elog -a 'Attribute1=value' -x -h localhost -l 'LOGBOOK' -p 8080 -u USER PASSWD

    This works - the entry gets created and is displayed properly.
    NOTE: I found that this does not work if LOGBOOK has any spaces in it - I would get error messages where the logbook was not found.
     
  2. Edit this entry to set a second attribute:

    elog -e 1 -a 'Attribute2=something' -x -h localhost -l 'LOGBOOK' -p 8080 -u USER PASSWD

    The result was: Error transmitting message. Running the same command with -v gives me a whole bunch of text with at the end this message (I've stripped the HTML): "This entry has in meantime been modified by someone else. Submitting it now would overwrite the other modification and is therefore prohibited." However, I know for certain that this entry is not being editied by anyone at that moment, so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong here...

Also, I have a second, related question: Editing by the ID of the entry seems to be the only way of editing an entry - this makes it a bit difficult for me, as all entries already have a unique ID (which is defined as one of the attributes) that is non-numerical and not sequential. What is the easiest way to retrieve an ID from the command line (basically something like: "What ID has the entry with Attribute1==NAME?")? Is it possible at all? Otherwise, I would not be able to automatically edit the entries, as I don't know which is which... :-}

 I fixed two things:

  • The logbook can now contain a space. Enclose it in double quotes such as elog -l "LOG BOOK" ...
  • The error you report comes from the fact that you are the first person using elog submissions together with "use lock=1" in the configuration file. This has never been tested and therefore does not work . So I fixed this by adding a new hidden parameter. If you update to SVN revision 2122, things should work

Concerning your request of editing existing entries by their idea, I agree with Yoshi that you could grab the ID upon the first submission. An alternative is to make a direct search on a logbook. Since this is not implemented in the elog command line tool, you have to use wget for it:

wget "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?mode=raw&Attribute1=something" -O elog.txt

A problem here is that the username and password are normally transmitted in an encrypted form as cookies by your browser after you logged in. Now you have to convince wget first to log in like

wget "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?unamee=USER&upassword=PASSWD"--save-cookies cookies.txt

followed by a second call to wget with --load-cookies cookies.txt. I tried that but was not successful since the login procedure above redirects to the elog listing page, and only the cookies set after the redirection were saved in cookies.txt. Maybe you can figure out how to do that. The only way I could get it to work is to supply the encoded password, which I manually obtained from the password file. The URL was then

wget "http://localhost:8080/LOGBOOK/?mode=raw&Attribute1=something&unm=USER&upwd=ENC_PWD" -O elog.txt

  65952   Tue Aug 12 08:42:58 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportWindows Re: Copy & Move To in Spanish

Marimar Rodriguez wrote:

when I choose the Spanish language, the command Copy To isn't allowed. I have had to change the language file and  change the line:

Copy To = Copiar a

to

Copy To = Copy To

That's strange. I just tried (even with Spanish) and it worked for me. Which version of elog do you have installed? Can you send me your elogd.cfg file?

  65957   Mon Sep 1 13:48:29 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux Re: Grabbing user name from SSL user certificate

Davide Salomoni wrote:

With SSL enabled, I'd like to to grab the CN (Common Name) of the user certificate and use that as login authentication method.

I am thinking of the following scenario:

- users with read & write privileges need to have an SSL certificate loaded in their browser. The "Author" field will be pre-set to the CN of the user certificate.

- authorization may be subject to further granularity (e.g. only allow users whose certificate belongs to a certain organization)

- read-only, guest access (without certificate) may or may not be allowed

 

Is there a way to do that?

 I put your request on the wish list.

  65958   Mon Sep 1 13:54:53 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindowsV2.7.4-212Re: Automatic Copy to

Grant Jeffcote wrote:
Stefan,

Is there any way I might be able to initiate the 'copy to' function by selecting a 'tick box' (boolean) or conditional attribute choice in an entry page when submitting that page? We have a requirement where we run a main 'Operations' log and have another log with some entries needing to be in both (for additional actions etc). I understand the Operator can always manually use the 'Copy To' function after submitting the original entry but was wondering if there was some way a shell script (execute function?) or similar may be activated by a boolean or even a 'conditional' choice?

Thx


I put your request on the whishlist.
  65960   Tue Sep 2 16:07:34 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestion  Re: Is there a way to indicate when an entry has been edited?

W.Koster wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Dennis Seitz wrote:

 You've probably seen my other posts on this subject.

I want to be able to re-edit some entries but I need some way to know the dates entries were re-edited.

Am I just approaching this the wrong way? Should I disable re-editing of entries and use threads to follow changes by posting replies to an entry?

The only problem with that is that if I make a mistake I will have to submit a new entry to fix it. 

Please read the FAQ

 

Apart from logging when and who, is it also possible to somehow log WHAT has changed (like $attribute + $old_value was changed by $who at $date)

 No, this is not possible.

  65962   Fri Sep 5 10:21:45 2008 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestLinuxV2.7.1-200Re: Search Find Selected or List of Logbooks instead of all Logbooks.

Alan Stone wrote:

I am using the CMS ELog remotely as a monitoring tool.  Information is compartementalized into dozens of containers.  I can create a find query URL, say last day, which then reloads every X minutes in Firefox.  When new ELog entries are made, then appear in the refresh and catch my attention.  But, my interests are somewhere between a single logbook and all logbooks.  If I choose all CMS logbooks for example for one day, I usually end up with > 200 entries. 

In short, I would like the ability to:

1) Select from the list of available logbooks when doing a search

2) Have more canned choices from smaller time frames, such as 1 hour or at least one shift (8 hours).

I do not see how to do this in the current elogd.cfg syntax instructions.

Thanks, Alan

 First of all have you considered using the built in RSS feed? With an RSS reader new entries are shown in a local notification box similar to new email. Some people like it.

1) This is not directly possible, but there is a trick: Define a URL to each logbook and put it into the Bookmarks Toolbar of Firefox. If you have many logbooks, this will however clutter up your toolbar. Then I recommend to make a subfolder in the toolbar and put them into it. Now firefox has the neat feature that if you click with the right mouse button on the folder, it offers you "Open All in Tabs". If you select this, you get a tab for each logbook in fireforx, and you can browse through each logbook individually.

2) This function was there long time ago (since I needed it myself) but somehow vanished. I added it back in revision 2126. You can now craft an URL like

https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/past-8

to show the last 8 hours.

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