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Hi, the elog command line client does not know anything about Apache authentication, therefore the authentication with the elog username/password fails. As an alternative to the command line client you can use the "curl" utility (available under Linux). This tools has the "-u" flag, which works with Apache. The tricky thing is now to "emulate" your browser submitting an entry. You can do

$ curl -u <username>:<password> -F cmd=Submit -F Author=CURL -F Text="This is the CURL text" http://<your host>:8080/<logbook>

(of course your attributes might be different than "Author"). If you have a multiline text body, you can read that from a file (in this case "file.txt"):

$ curl -u <username>:<password> -F cmd=Submit -F Author=CURL -F Text="@file.txt" http://<your host>:8080/<logbook>

When I wrote "elog" orginiallly (199x?), "curl" was not available or at least I didn't know of. Right now it almoste completely can replace the elog tool.

Stefan

PS to David: The subject "Three problems ..." is not giving any indication what it is about. I would find it better in this case to post three entries to the Forum, each with a striking title :-)

Andreas,

I too was able to track the problem down to the "gettimedate" function in elogd.c. It looks like the code is using a variable named "str" for several different purposes. I haven't had a chance to do any testing, but my suspsicion is that the size of the dynamically allocated variable is ending up too small for the time stamp string, so it gets truncated.

Your point about the topic title is a good one - I'll split this into separate issues, thanks!

Indeed the "str" variable at the gettimedate function had the wrong string size, so that all date strings got truncated at 8 characters. That's what you've seen. Also the ../../?cmd=gettimedate was wrong and it should be ./?cmd=gettimedate. I committed the fix to GIT so it will be contained in the next release ofe log.