> Hello,
> 
> We are now running elog-2.7.5 in a Scientific Linux 4 (RHEL4) system, which uses ImageMagick 6.0.7.1.  After uploading an image, the image 
> manipulation buttons don't work and complain:
> convert: unrecognized option '-set'
> 
> We are using an RPM built from source, and it looks like I should be able to just change "-set comment ..." to "-comment" as in:
> ------
> [dab66@lnx100 tmp]% diff elogd.c elogd.c.new 
> 22601c22601
> <       sprintf(cmd, "convert '%s' -rotate %d -thumbnail %d -set comment ' %d' '%s'", file_name, new_rot,
> ---
> >       sprintf(cmd, "convert '%s' -rotate %d -thumbnail %d -comment ' %d' '%s'", file_name, new_rot,
> 22607c22607
> <       sprintf(cmd, "convert '%s' -rotate %d -thumbnail %d -set comment ' %d' '%s'", file_name, new_rot,
> ---
> >       sprintf(cmd, "convert '%s' -rotate %d -thumbnail %d -comment ' %d' '%s'", file_name, new_rot,
> 22618c22618
> <       sprintf(cmd, "convert '%s' -rotate %d -thumbnail %d -set comment ' %d' '%s'", file_name, cur_rot,
> ---
> >       sprintf(cmd, "convert '%s' -rotate %d -thumbnail %d -comment ' %d' '%s'", file_name, cur_rot,
> 22624c22624
> <       sprintf(cmd, "convert '%s' -rotate %d -thumbnail %d -set comment ' %d' '%s'", file_name, cur_rot,
> ---
> >       sprintf(cmd, "convert '%s' -rotate %d -thumbnail %d -comment ' %d' '%s'", file_name, cur_rot,
> ------
> 
> Is there any better way for us to fix this, or is anything else needed?

Well, I believe your modification won't work. I just tried it with ImageMagick 6.3.8 and it failed. Try to rotate your picture four times, and 
it should be back to the old position. When I use "-comment" instead "-set comment" on a PNG file, this did not work. From the man page it 
tells me:

Version: ImageMagick 6.3.8 01/25/08 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC

Usage: convert [options ...] file [ [options ...] file ...] [options ...] file

Image Settings:
  ...
  -comment string      annotate image with comment
  ...

Image Operators:
  ...
  -set property value  set an image property
  ...


So indeed "-comment" and "-set comment" are two different things. I'm afraid you have to upgrade your ImageMagick package in order to make 
this work.

You have to put "Last x" in the menu, not "Last day". Unfortunately by default the label "Last day" does not show up. I fixed this in the current version. But you can yourself start this thing by adding "past1" to the URL, or by making yourself a bookmark in your browser. Like

https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/past1

then the "Last 2 days" will show up.

You cannot make this with the ID, but you can create an additional attribute which will show exactly this behavior. Have a look under

subst <attribute> = %Y-####

in the documentation. 

I tried your configuration and got the attribute incrementing correctly:

so I'm a bit at a loss, too. Maybe your browser caches the old page, so try a "Reload" on your browser or clear your cache. Maybe your logbook contains some weird entries which make the incementing break. Try this configuration with an empty logbook. Certainly the configuration options are correct.

  for (var i=0 ; i<document.form1.y0.value.length ; i++)
    if ((document.form1.y0.value.charAt(i) < "0" ||
         document.form1.y0.value.charAt(i) > "9")) { break }

This cause in following error 
Fehler: document.form1.y0 is undefined
Quelldatei: http://elog1.bkitech.de/Test-Maengelbericht/?cmd=Neu
Zeile: 16 
After that error none js will be executed.
After remarking the Type line, all work well.

I tried with following minimal configuration file:

Attributes = D, Author, Subject
Type D = Date
Preset D = $Date

and it worked fine. The form contains a field:

Year: <input type="text" size=5 maxlength=5 name="y0">

which contains the name "y0" and therefore produced no error. Can you try with that configuration and see which difference to your configuration causes the error to appear?

> Hi, All.  Ever since upgrading from an old ELOG release on an aging windows machine to the latest version on Scientific Linux 4 (RHEL4), and 
> greatly increasing its use, we have seen frequent crashes of elogd.  This has become very disruptive to operations, and any help would be greatly 
> appreciated.  We are using Apache (running on the same machine as elogd) to secure ELOG using https as per the Administrator's Guide.

Just follow

https://midas.psi.ch/elog/faq.html#19

Crashes with attached images are getting reported more and more these days, but so far I was not able to reproduce it. Maybe it's related to ImageMagic 
somehow, in which case disabling this feature might give some insight. To do so, you have to modify elogd.c and recompile. Change

   /* check for ImageMagick */
   my_shell("convert -version", str, sizeof(str));
   image_magick_exist = (strstr(str, "ImageMagick") != NULL);


to

   /* check for ImageMagick */
   image_magick_exist = 0;

This is unfortunately not possible. All users see the same options. 

You can put the pictures in a table, and align the table cells accordingly. Here is an example:

Now you can make the border invisible by setting "border=0". This however can only be done in the HTML mode, so you have to switch using the top left icon "Show HTML source code" and then manually edit the code. This requires some basic HTML knowledge. The result will look like this:

Only through style (that's what style is for, anyhow).