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  66336   Thu Apr 30 08:40:43 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux2.7.6Re: elogd runs by a user but not by root
Dongwook Jang wrote:

 Hi,

I wonder how others manage this situation because deamons in /etc/init.d is excercuted by root. So I cannot run in /etc/init.d/elogd when the system starts up.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Dongwook

The normal situation is that elogd gets started by root under /etc/init.d/, then the configuration file contains "Usr = elog" and "Grp = elog", so after it has been started as root, the program falls back to the "elog" user, which only has restricted rights. 

 

  66337   Thu Apr 30 08:48:01 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.5-2185Re: Database Like - ELOG Format
mike cianci wrote:

Stefan,

I am using the Database Like - ELOG format and on the list page, the the last two columns (on the right side) are, "Text" and "Attachments (the paperclip)".

Both of which I have deleted from the input page.

Is there anyway to remove them from the List page?

Thanks,      Mike

You need:

Show text = 0

Enable Attachments = 0

to supress the text entry box and the attachment field.

Display search = ID, Type, Location, Status

to show only the attributs of interest in the list display (your attributes could be different)

Summary lines = 0

to supress the text in the list display. At the moment, this still shows the paperclip colum, but I want to fix this in the next version.

 

  66338   Thu Apr 30 20:49:03 2009 Reply Dongwook Jangdwjang@fnal.govQuestionLinux2.7.6Re: elogd runs by a user but not by root

Stefan Ritt wrote:
Dongwook Jang wrote:

 Hi,

I wonder how others manage this situation because deamons in /etc/init.d is excercuted by root. So I cannot run in /etc/init.d/elogd when the system starts up.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Dongwook

The normal situation is that elogd gets started by root under /etc/init.d/, then the configuration file contains "Usr = elog" and "Grp = elog", so after it has been started as root, the program falls back to the "elog" user, which only has restricted rights. 

 

 

Now I realized that it is not a problem in /etc/init.d, but deamon itself.

When I run the following command as a root, it didn't run

/mnt/wd500/jnj/products/elog/sbin/elogd -D -c /mnt/wd500/jnj/products/elog/elog/elogd.cfg

But, it runs when I did as a user.

I really don't understand this strange behavior.

Thanks,

  66342   Mon May 4 11:25:15 2009 Reply soren poulsensoren.poulsen@cern.chQuestionLinux2.7.5-2172Re: Using preset text files

soren poulsen wrote:

Hi,

I am trying the Preset text option from the documentation: like:

Attributes = Author, Type
Options Type = Network check{1}, System check{2}

{1} Preset text = network.txt
{2} Preset text = system.txt

I have two questions:

1. Where are the preset text files searched from ? I guess I could put them in the logbook (and specify a relative path like in this example) but it appeared only to work when I specifiy an abcolute path. That is even better in my case.

2. How do I specify line feeds in the file ? I tried Linux and Windows new line characters - but I always end up with just  one line in my e-log. I would really like a multi-line form.

Soren

 

 Dear Soren,

 

Just use HTML (and call the file network.html to remember).

 

  66343   Mon May 4 11:50:30 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux2.7.5-2172Re: Using preset text files

 

soren poulsen wrote:

Hi,

I am trying the Preset text option from the documentation: like:

Attributes = Author, Type
Options Type = Network check{1}, System check{2}

{1} Preset text = network.txt
{2} Preset text = system.txt

I have two questions:

1. Where are the preset text files searched from ? I guess I could put them in the logbook (and specify a relative path like in this example) but it appeared only to work when I specifiy an abcolute path. That is even better in my case.

2. How do I specify line feeds in the file ? I tried Linux and Windows new line characters - but I always end up with just  one line in my e-log. I would really like a multi-line form.

Soren

 

Without path, the file must reside in the "scripts" subdirectory.

For the multi-line form, it depends how you want to format your elog entry. If you format in "plain", the simple line breaks are sufficient. If you format in HTML, your preset file must be in HTML as well, so a line break has to be a <br> tag. If you format in ELCode, a simple line break again would be ok. 

  66344   Mon May 4 18:06:01 2009 Reply soren poulsensoren.poulsen@cern.chQuestionLinux2.7.5-2172Re: Using preset text files

Stefan Ritt wrote:

 

soren poulsen wrote:

Hi,

I am trying the Preset text option from the documentation: like:

Attributes = Author, Type
Options Type = Network check{1}, System check{2}

{1} Preset text = network.txt
{2} Preset text = system.txt

I have two questions:

1. Where are the preset text files searched from ? I guess I could put them in the logbook (and specify a relative path like in this example) but it appeared only to work when I specifiy an abcolute path. That is even better in my case.

2. How do I specify line feeds in the file ? I tried Linux and Windows new line characters - but I always end up with just  one line in my e-log. I would really like a multi-line form.

Soren

 

Without path, the file must reside in the "scripts" subdirectory.

For the multi-line form, it depends how you want to format your elog entry. If you format in "plain", the simple line breaks are sufficient. If you format in HTML, your preset file must be in HTML as well, so a line break has to be a <br> tag. If you format in ELCode, a simple line break again would be ok. 

 Thanks for the hints on the "scripts" dir.  For the formatting, that's clear. I started with the sample "network.txt" file from the doc and the default encoding (HTML), so that did (of course) not render correctly (before inserting a few tags).

Soren

 

  66347   Wed May 6 15:30:24 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionAll2.7.6Re: Office 2007 file attachments download as zip due to mime config
Rich Sterling wrote:

Are there any plans to add the new mime extensions to the elogd.c source? (Instead of forcing users to use FireFox or Right click, save-as and rename?

 

 Ok, I added the MIME extensions in ELOG Rev. 2196. The forum runs already the updated version, so can you try with the demo attachments from your entry?

  66348   Wed May 6 15:35:44 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.5-2185Re: Problem Naming Logbooks

 

mike cianci wrote:

I have a logbook named "Centaur" (instrument name) for a problem log on an instrument and a logbook named "CentaurNewLot" for

a logbook (Database Like - ELOG format) where we would log reagent lot number changes for that instrument.

The problem is that when I name the logbooks, like I have, it screws up the formatting (List page) of the second log book.

If I rename the second logbook something totally unrelated to the first logbook my originally intended formatting returns.

 

I tried to reproduce your problem but without success. In my case the "CentaurNewLot" looks fine:

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so what is different in your case? Can you try with the simple example logbook from the distribution and the add one option after the other to see which one causes the trouble?

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