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Tue Nov 16 15:56:53 2010

Re: Elogd service crashes on "reply" with percent character in subject line

Mike Zuber wrote:

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

Thanks for your detailed report. Actually the problem only happens if you have Re: $Subject and a '%' in the subject line. So you were the first one encountering this situation. I fixed it in release elog280-5 which you can download now.

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Tue Nov 16 16:33:52 2010

Re: automated email notification did not work for me

Jianglai Liu wrote:

Hi,

I am setting up an elog to organize my lab activities. I installed elog 2.8.0 on the latest CentOS 5.5, 32 bit. I got into trouble setting up the automated email notification.

According to the elog manual, I setup the smtp setting in the elogd.cfg as follows:

SMTP host = smtp.gmail.com
SMTP username = jianglai.liu

I then used "elogd -t" to encode the password into the configuration file.

But when I submit an entry, I always received: "Error sending Email via "smtp.gmail.com": 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. y17sm867489wfd.15"

If I switched to use my university email servers, similar things happened.

SMTP host = smtp.sjtu.edu.cn
SMTP username = jianglai.liu

I got "Error sending Email via "smtp.sjtu.edu.cn": 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: another step is needed in authentication"

I also switched to use one of my old work server

SMTP host = smtp-server.its.caltech.edu
SMTP username = jliu

and ended up with the same error message.

I did a google search on this without much progress. I would appreciate it very much if someone could shed light on how do I fix this.

Thanks much!

elog only supports basic authentication, not TLS or SSL. These days more and more SMTP servers require this however. I will put this on my to-do list. In meantime you can maybe configure your CentOS machine acting as an SMTP server, and then not using TLS or SSL there. That's what most people do.

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Wed Nov 17 11:48:03 2010

Re: elog password , attributes and quoting username and password

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!

Just for the record: It's actually forbidden. If you do -u "username password" then elog considers "username password" as the full user name, and the password is missing, so it takes the next argument as a password. In one of our trials it then used -a "Category=info" as the password, so the category was then missing.

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Wed Nov 24 11:58:00 2010

Re: Don't see login page - Self register = 1

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to configure Elog such that users can self-register. But no luck so far.
> I cannot get the login screen. I'm connecting to a logbook (and I can do this without logging in).
> Shouldn't I get a screen to login/register?
> 
> Here is my elogd.cfg:
> [global]
> Port=8880
> Password file = /usr/local/elog/logbooks/passwd
> SMTP host = smtp.mydomain.de
> SMTP user = kuku
> Logfile = /usr/local/elog/logs/elog.log
> Admin user = kuku other
> Login user = abc def ghi
> SSL=1
> URL=https://www.mydomain.de:8880/
> Self register = 1
> Menu commands = List, New, Edit, Reply, Duplicate, Find, Config, Logout, Help
> Guest menu commands = List, Find, Login, Help
> 
> Admin user = me@mydomain.de
> [Demo]
> Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4neBt9xnX44YYQay15Yu9PyLC9hK6sifI9
> Attributes = Author, Status
> [Linux]
> Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4next9PnXShhQQa515Yu9PyLC9hK6sifI9
> Attributes = Author, Status
> [Windows]
> Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4neBt9PnXShhQQay15YuxPyLC9hK6sifI9
> Attributes = Author, Status

You should not mix "Password file" with "Admin Password". Either use one or the other system, but not both. So 
remove "Admin Password", and delete all cookies in your browser, then you should see the login screen.

66948

Wed Nov 24 12:12:37 2010

Re: How to overide the Date attribute?

Adam Blandford wrote:

Hi I have a logbook where I want to override the default Date attribute. I would like to set it by default to the entry date but enable the user to modify to a different date if desired. This is for entries that pertain to an activity performed on a date different to the entry date. To acheive this I have created an attribute called "Subject Date" and used preset = $date. In general this works but I would be happy to take any other suggestions on how to acheive it? Also, how do I remove the fixed "Date" attribute from the logbook summary page? I have tried: List = ID, Subject Date, Type, Subject in the config file but this doesn't appear to work? Thanks in advance! Adam

The option to change what is displayed is called List display = ... and not List = ... Then it works.

- Stefan

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Wed Nov 24 15:14:29 2010

Re: New password file problem

Mariusz Stakowski wrote:

Hello,

I'm new to elog. I've installed it under Slackware 11. Everything worked smoothly until I wanted to establish access control. I followed the steps described under Access control heading in Syntax of elog.cfg chapter. I specified a new password file name and the following steps with no problem. After having created a new user I stopped elogd and added Admin user to config file. And here is my problem - each time I want to login to elog, I get "Invalid user name or password!" message. The meaning of it is obvious. So I have repeated all the steps several times. Of course I paid attention to enter user name and password correctly but I can't get rid of this message. For sure I making something wrong, but what it is ?

Can you try the current SVN version?

http://savannah.psi.ch/websvn/filedetails.php?repname=elog&path=/trunk/src/elogd.c&rev=0&sc=0

There has been some issues with the password encoding, maybe this is fixed now.

66951

Wed Nov 24 16:30:31 2010

Christoph Kukulies

kukulies@physik.rwth-aachen.de

Christoph Kukulies wrote:

I just got a Proxy error from your site: When I clicked on the change password link that was sent to my email, I entered my new password (which was the same that I believed to have used before) and after submitting this form, I got the Proxy error. Also I find that I can never login with my once set password. Is it the Email or username on gives in the login field? Other quirk: I never can preview my post. When I click preview, nothing happens. Submitting worked today but yesterday I was unable to submit a post. I clicked several times on the submit button and nothing happened. -- Christoph

It seems that the submit/preview problem is solved. Submit/Preview buttons at the bottom of the page seem to work on the attachments only.

Sorry for the oversight on my side.

Christoph

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Wed Nov 24 16:36:21 2010

Christoph Kukulies

kukulies@physik.rwth-aachen.de

Question

Linux

2.8.0-2313

Re: Don't see login page - Self register = 1

> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to configure Elog such that users can self-register. But no luck so far.
> > I cannot get the login screen. I'm connecting to a logbook (and I can do this without logging in).
> > Shouldn't I get a screen to login/register?
> > 
> > Here is my elogd.cfg:
> > [global]
> > Port=8880
> > Password file = /usr/local/elog/logbooks/passwd
> > SMTP host = smtp.mydomain.de
> > SMTP user = kuku
> > Logfile = /usr/local/elog/logs/elog.log
> > Admin user = kuku other
> > Login user = abc def ghi
> > SSL=1
> > URL=https://www.mydomain.de:8880/
> > Self register = 1
> > Menu commands = List, New, Edit, Reply, Duplicate, Find, Config, Logout, Help
> > Guest menu commands = List, Find, Login, Help
> > 
> > Admin user = me@mydomain.de
> > [Demo]
> > Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4neBt9xnX44YYQay15Yu9PyLC9hK6sifI9
> > Attributes = Author, Status
> > [Linux]
> > Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4next9PnXShhQQa515Yu9PyLC9hK6sifI9
> > Attributes = Author, Status
> > [Windows]
> > Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4neBt9PnXShhQQay15YuxPyLC9hK6sifI9
> > Attributes = Author, Status
> 
> You should not mix "Password file" with "Admin Password". Either use one or the other system, but not both. So 
> remove "Admin Password", and delete all cookies in your browser, then you should see the login screen.

This is now my config - it still doesn't work. BTW, the passwd file is empty (despite of the xml header).

[global]
Port=8880
Password file = /usr/local/elog/logbooks/passwd
SMTP host = smtp.mydomain.de
SMTP user = kuku
Logfile = /usr/local/elog/logs/elog.log
Logging Level = 3
Admin user = kuku 
Login user = abc def ghi
SSL=1

URL=https://myhost.mydomain:8880/
Self register = 1
Menu commands = List, New, Edit, Reply, Duplicate, Find, Config, Logout, Help
Guest menu commands = List, Find, Login, Help
[Demo]
Attributes = Author, Status
[Linux]
Attributes = Author, Status
[Windows]
Attributes = Author, Status

--
Thanks for helping.

Christoph

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