Use the "elog" command line utility as described here under tips & tricks: http://midas.psi.ch/elog/userguide.html

 Hi all,

I would like to create a new entry remotely.

I would like that when the macro run, the macro automatically create a new entry in my Elog.

I was searching, but i don't saw any thing about this.

Is possible to do a new entry remotely?

Thanks for all.

I have 4 services running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machines, 4 separate logs, only one of them is doing this, but that could be because only one of them is trying to delete records once they are posted, I cannot say.

On that one log, everything runs fine until they try to delete a record, and they are doing it under the admin login, but the service hangs.  anyone trying to log in get the 404 error that the page is not available.  to clear it I have to open Manage/Services and then Task Manager.  First I kill the process for that log book, then I can restart the service and everything is back.. trying to stop the service and then start it, or just restart the service, this does no good, in fact, it will hang at stopping the service.. it is not responding at all.  this happened to the same log when I had this on the original Windows Server 2003, so it is not new.. they just don't delete things for a long time, then they seem to do it every week, more than once.. and usually at night or on the weekend. (are they just doing it to mess with me?  Maybe, but I do not think so since it would not get me in trouble if I were busy, out of town or just not home and could not get to it until the next business day and they know this..

Any ideas what could cause this?

My Configuration is as follows, with only the names changed to protect the guilty:

[global]
port = 8081
SSL = 1

css = solar.css
password file = PWFILE
self register = 0
login expiration = 0
restrict edit = 1

Allow Password change = 0
List Menu Commands = New, Find, Select, Config, Help
Menu Commands = List, New, Edit, Delete, Reply, Help
Enable Attachments = 0
show attachments = 0
display mode = summary

admin users = admin,ME
login users = user,ME,user2,user3
deny config = user,ME,user2,user3
deny delete = user,ME,user2,user3
deny edit = user,ME,user2,user3

Welcome Title = <p><font size=6 color=white> S---- T------ Furnace Logs</font><br><font size=3 color=white> These logs are C---------- Confidential: </font> <font size=3 color=55ff55> Green </font>
Attributes = Badge, Run, Recipe, Mod, Rebraze, W.O., Operation, Item, Qty
Options Mod = Boolean
Options Rebraze = Boolean

list display = date, Badge, Run, Recipe, Mod, Rebraze, W.O., Operation, Item, Qty

Options Recipe = AN001, AN002, AN003, AN004
Extendable Options = Recipe
Required Attributes = Badge, Recipe, W.O., Operation, Item, Qty
default encoding = 1
allowed encoding = 1
allow HTML = 0
suppress default = 3
suppress email on edit = 3
display email recipients = 0

[V8]
Theme = default
Comment = V8 Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = V8-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[V9]
Theme = default
Comment = V9 Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = V9-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[V10]
Theme = default
Comment = V10 Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = V10-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[V11]
Theme = default
Comment = V11 Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = V11-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[V12]
Theme = default
Comment = V12 Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = V12-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[V13]
Theme = default
Comment = V13 Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = V13-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[Freezer]
Theme = default
Comment = Freezer Furnace Log Data Owner: B. Sands
Preset Run = Fre-%Y-####
Preset recipe = None
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

[MyTest]
Theme = default
List Menu Commands = New, Find, Select, Config, CSV Import, Help

Comment = MyTest Log
Preset Run = MT-%Y-####
Locked Attributes = Run
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date

The elog command has the option "-n <n>" to tell elog, what type of text it should expect.

[-n 0|1|2]               Encoding: 0:ELcode,1:plain,2:HTML

It is necessary for elog to know the type of encoding, otherwise it would not show non-html content correctly.

Hey,

I am testing out automated entries using elog on the command line. The file I pass has html code for a table; the resulting entry shows the html code for the table instead of generating the table. Is there a way to make elog parse the code to show a formatted table?

Thanks  in advance.

Is anyone else seeing this? It's very confusing to new users.

Further work suggests that the type of pdf file might matter, as I have now seen the defunct daemon after
adding the first pdf file in an entry.

However, I have also found that image manipulation (rotation, size) generates a defunct daemon.

> Hi Stefan and Andreas
> 
> Yesterday I reported I had some issues with the latest elog: but now I can reproduce one.  
> elog 2.9.2-a738232
> 
> I started a new entry, and attached three pdf files.  I did not get the problem of not seeing the png thumnbnail
> this time, although that is annoying if you want/need to adjust the thumbnail image before submitting.
> 
> However, if I then look at the running processes, I have the following listed (ps -A)
> 
> 23677 tty1     00:00:04 elogd
> 23809 tty1     00:00:00 elogd <defunct>
> 23825 tty1     00:00:00 elogd <defunct>
> 23847 pts/0    00:00:00 ps
> 
> 23677 was when I started the elogd daemon, having killed off the previous daemon etc for test purposes.
> 
> 23809 and 23825 appeared after a couple of pdfs were added (second and third ones to be precise).  They can only
> be killed off by killing off the original running daemon.  It appears that attaching a second and further pdf
> attachments to any entry generates an elogd <defunct> in the processes list, although attaching a jpg in the
> middle of a list of pdfs didn't (but the next pdf did).  This is happening while adding attachments, that is the
> Submit button has yet to be pressed, so it seems to be generated  when the pdf file is being processed for some
> reason.
> 
> You can end up with quite a stack of these in the process list!
> 
> I never saw this behaviour with the previous version I was running, SVN2475 I think.
> 
> 
> By the way, I still cannot send an attachment over to this server (showing a screenshot) without the 502 error.