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    icon2.gif   Re: SQL Database, posted by Bill Pier on Thu Sep 23 17:22:43 2010 

What about using something like MySQLfs to get a db backend transparently to ELOG?  I use ENCFS, (a FUSE backend), currently to achieve encrypted logbooks and it works fine -- ELOG never knows anything other than reading and writing to logbook files.  From what I've read, the MySQLfs backend would work the same, and you likely would gain some of the caching benefits of MySQL, which might help with your read/search times, given the memory requirements of the database of course.

 

Bill

lance wrote:

We have been running elog for a few years now and its solid. The only thing is we are getting to 140k entries over a few books and its starting to slow down whist searching. My questions is can we go to an SQL type database rather than a flat file? Is it worth it? Is anyone running this type of configuration?

 

 

    icon2.gif   Re: how to set text column width, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Oct 8 09:19:13 2010 

phichitpon wrote:

hello

how to set text column width in Elog

thank you

There is currently no easy possibility to change this except manually changing the CSS file. But that requires some CSS and HTML knowledge. You would have to change the CSS class "listtitle2" and "summary".

    icon2.gif   Re: Action after message submission, posted by Mike Zuber on Thu Oct 14 16:43:05 2010 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Mike Zuber wrote:

Is it possible to automatically go back to the list view in summary mode after submitting a new message instead of displaying the new message?

I know it's possible to display a page from a file after submitting a new message  by using "Submit Page = <file>". 
It would be nice to be able to use a command like "Submit Page = <command>" where I could insert "?cmd=Back" as in the "Start page" command.

Thanks,

Mike

I just implemented a new flag "List after submit = 1" which does exactly this. It brings you to the summary page after the submission of a new entry. I needed the function myself. The change is SVN revision 2327 and will be contained in the next release. 

 Thank you very much! I appreciate it.

    icon2.gif   Re: Elogd service crashes on "reply" with percent character in subject line, posted by Mike Zuber on Thu Oct 14 17:50:56 2010 elogd.cfg

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Mike Zuber wrote:

My logbook kept crashing whenever I tried to reply to an existing entry. I found that the percent sign "%", when used in the subject line, will crash the elogd service when you try to reply to the entry. This appears to only happen with windows installations. I tested this on your Linux logbook and it didn't crash.

Here is the message taken from the Windows event viewer after the crash:
An unhandled win32 exception occurred in elogd.exe [5224].

Thank you for Elog, you have done a good job with it.  It is a great logbook.

Mike

I could not reproduce your problem. I tried the very simple config file:

[Demo]
Attributes = Author, Subject

and the problem did not occur (see attachment). Can you try the most recent version (elog280-4.exe) with this simple configuration. Maybe you have a more complicated configuration which causes the problem. In that case please send it to me, so that I can reproduce the problem.

 Thank you Stefan for your help on this. I am using version 2.8.0 built Aug 2, 2010 rev 2312. I tried your configuration file and the problem did not occur. Using my config file the elogd crashes using the % sign in the subject when replying to the entry. So the problem is something in my config file. After checking through my config file and remming out individual lines and testing, I found that the following statement is causing the problem:

Preset on reply subject = Re: $Subject

I was using this to put the "Re:" on the replies.

The only problem now is I don't get the "Re:" in the subject on replies. Am I doing something wrong to cause this? My config file is attached.

Thanks,
Mike

    icon2.gif   Re: openssl - openssl/ssl.h, posted by Christoph Kukulies on Thu Nov 11 11:08:32 2010 

Christoph Kukulies wrote:

Nasty nasty. I prepared a longish post and only because I forgot to click an Icon of choice, all my message is lost.

 

Thus in short:

 

openssl/ssl.h isn't there.

 

I assume I got to get it from openssl.org.

But where do I put it in the compilation tree?

 

--

Christoph

 

 Replying to my own post: libdev-ssl wasn't installed.

--

Christoph

 

    icon2.gif   Re: elog password , attributes and quoting username and password, posted by Yoshio Imai on Thu Nov 11 17:51:49 2010 

Arno Teunisse wrote:

Please Notice that I've put quotes around : -u "username password" ( the documentation shows that this is not necessary) .  But now it failes to see a required attribute.  

Have you tried without the quotes? They may not be allowed!

    icon2.gif   Re: elog password , attributes and quoting username and password, posted by Arno Teunisse on Thu Nov 11 17:57:12 2010 

Arno Teunisse wrote:

Hello
 

When I want to submit an entrie with elog I have the following problem : ( elogd on windows 7 )
D:\MyProgramFiles (x86)\ELOG>elog -v  -h localhost -p 8080 -l "Knowledge Base" -u "arnot 123abc"  -a "Category=info" -a "OS=HP-UX" -a "Subject=Just testing"
Successfully connected to host localhost, port 8080
Request sent to host:
POST /Knowledge+Base/ HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------517428C7722E
Host: NTB100744.simac.local
User-Agent: ELOG
Content-Length: 874


Content sent to host:
---------------------------517428C7722E
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cmd"

Submit
---------------------------517428C7722E
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="unm"

arnot 123abc
---------------------------517428C7722E
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="upwd"

I9vh6COTmDFzlmSGZ9S1gIC.cUNR0fRSzZOYNzj1LK.
---------------------------517428C7722E
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="exp"

Knowledge Base
---------------------------517428C7722E
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="encoding"

ELCode
---------------------------517428C7722E
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="OS"

HP-UX
---------------------------517428C7722E
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Subject"

Just testing
---------------------------517428C7722E
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Text"

Category=info
---------------------------517428C7722E

Response received:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: ELOG HTTP 2.8.0-2331
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Connection: Close

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<title>ELOG error</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css">
</head>
<body><center>
<table class="dlgframe" width="50%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"<tr><td class="errormsg"><i>Error: Attribute <b>Category</b> not supplied.</i><p>
Please go back and enter the <b>Category</b> field.
</td></tr>
<tr><td class="errormsg"><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.write("<button type=button onClick=history.back()>Back</button>");
</script>
<noscript>
Please use your browser's back button to go back
</noscript>
</td></tr>
</table>
</center></body></html>

Error: Missing required attribute "Category" 

Please Notice that I've put quotes around : -u "username password" ( the documentation shows that this is not necessary) .  But now it failes to see a required attribute.  

When I leave out the quotes in the -u part , it just hangs despite the -vvv on the server console and the -v option  used in the elog command line. Nothing happens. No output at the server debug screen. 
I'm Not using SSL , nor have i used a certificate. It's just a good old  plain html server. ( As far as i can see )

This is the main section in my config and the section I want to change :
[global]
port = 8080
;SSL = 1
;Resource dir = d:/elog.dir
;Logbook dir = d:/elogbooks.dir
CSS = simac1.css
;SMTP host = mailhost.chello.nl
SMTP host = vldexc1.simac.local
Title image URL =
\\vldfps1\algemeen\FM&O\Klanten
Title image = <img border="0" width="25%" src="simac.jpg">
Use Lock = 1   ; When a message is edited an other user will be noticed.
; Please notice : Options Category is now global, and sorted
Options Category = Backup,Database,Filesysteem,Info,Monitoring,Mount,Other,Performance,Security,Upgrade, Add User, IP info, Known Issues,  I-share OchtendControle
Self register = 1  # user can create an account
;Password file = passwd
Admin user = arnot
Logbook Tabs = 0
Protect Selection page = 1
Main Tab = MAIN

 

 

 


; Iedereen mag in het TEXT gedeelte aanpassingen uitvoeren.
Restrict edit = 0
 

[Knowledge Base]

Comment = <I>Knowledge base</I>
Help URL = help.html
Logfile = c:/Program files/elog/Knowledge_Base.log
; use user level password access

;Login expiration = 10

;Self register = 1  # user can create an account
; How is the time displayed :
Time format = %A, %B %d, %Y, %H:%M

; look and feel
Guest menu commands = List,Back, Find, Login, Help
Guest find menu commands = Find, Login, Help
Date format = %B %d, %Y
List menu commands = List,New,Find,Select,Import,Config,Logout,Last day,Help
; attributes
Attributes = Author, Author Email, Category, Klanten,Machine, OS ,Version,Archive, Subject
Options Archive = boolean
Options OS  = UNIX{10} , AIX {100} , HP-UX{200}, Redhat ES{300}  , Suze{400} , Debian{500}
{10}  Options Version = ALL
{100} Options Version = 5.1,5.2,5.3,6.1,6.2,6.3
{200} Options Version = 11.10,11.20,11.23
{300} Options Version = 4.7,4.8,4.9,5.0,5.1
{400} Options Version = 10.1,10.2,10.3,11.0,11.1,
{500} Options Version = 6.0 (sqeeze),5.0 (lenny),4.0 (etch),3.1 (sarge),3.0 (woody),2.2 (potato),2.1 (slink),2.0 (hamm)
Options Klanten = Frieslandbank{AA} , Arag{BB}, Super de Boer{CC},NRE{DD}
{AA}Options Machine = rc1lphmc01,rc1lptr01,rc1upas02,rc1upas03,rc1upas04,rc1upas05,rc1upas06,rc1upas07,rc1upas08,rc1upas22,rc1upav1,rc1updb05,rc1updb21,rc2lphmc01,rc2lptr01,rc2upas02,rc2upas32,rc2updb31,rc2updw33,rc2uuav1
{BB}Options Machine = Arag-lin1,Arag-lin2,Arag-lin3,Arag-lin4,Arag-lin5,Arag-lin6
{CC}Options Machine = xai61032
{DD}Options Machine = server27,server32,server37,server38,server40


Extendable options = Category, Klanten
Required Attributes = Category, OS ,Subject
List Display =  Subject, Category, Klanten,Machine, OS ,Version,Archive
Thread display = $Subject, entered by $author on $Entry time
Quick filter =  Category, OS,Klanten
Display mode = threaded
; title as shown in the browser
Page Title = Accelerator Logbook - $subject

; preset author and email
Preset Author = $long_name
Preset Author Email = $user_email

; these attributes cannot be changed
Locked Attributes = Author, Author Email

; only author can change its own entry
; See restrict edit in the global section

; options for reply
Subst on reply subject = Re: $subject
;Remove on reply = Author, Author Email
Preset on reply Author = $long_name
Preset on reply Author Email = $user_email

; No Email notification
Suppress Email to users = 1   # 1 = do not send mail , 0 = send mail
##############################################################################################                                                                                                                                                        

Any help will be appreciated .....

 When I leave out the quotes in the -u part , it just hangs despite the -vvv on the server console and the -v option  used in the elog command line. Nothing happens. No output at the server debug screen. 
I'm Not using SSL , nor have i used a certificate. It's just a good old  plain html server. ( As far as i can see )
 

    icon2.gif   Re: elog password , attributes and quoting username and password, posted by Arno Teunisse on Thu Nov 11 22:25:18 2010 

Yoshio Imai wrote:

Arno Teunisse wrote:

Please Notice that I've put quotes around : -u "username password" ( the documentation shows that this is not necessary) .  But now it failes to see a required attribute.  

Have you tried without the quotes? They may not be allowed!

 Hello Yoshio

Thanks for the answer. Just solved the problem i was having. It seems that the -m option for elog.exe is a required commandline option. When skipping it elog just waits to get something.
Thanks for the time you took to answer this question.

Kind regards Arno Teunisse

 

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