The process elogd runs as the user "nobody". This user obviously cannot write to /usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo.

But apparently you've created the wrong directory anyway: you've listed /usr/local/elog/demo, but ELOG looks for /usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo.

Cheers, Andreas

Sorry, it was my mistake while copying  from terminal to the email .  There is no "demo" directory under /usr/local/lib.

Tapasis-MacBook-Pro:elog tapasi$ cd  /usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo

Tapasis-MacBook-Pro:demo tapasi$ ls -ltr

total 0

drwxr-xr-x   3 tapasi  admin   102 Sep 22 11:00 2001

drwxr-xr-x  55 503     admin  1870 Dec 17 13:21 2015

drwxr-xr-x   2 tapasi  admin    68 Jan  7 14:54 2016

So, how can I change the user from "nobody" to my name, so that elogd runs in my user name ?

Thanks

Use

usr = <user anme>

in elogd.cfg as written in the documentation.

Stefan

Hello,

I have a quick question regarding how to display text using the "Top text" 
feature in the elogd.cfg file.  I've made an entry that looks like the 
following:

Top text = <h1>TEXT TO DISPLAY</h1>

But instead of getting just "TEXT TO DISPLAY" I get something like this:

----begin page ---
/usr/local/elog         "TEXT TO DISPLAY"

...rest of page 

----end page ---

...that is, on the far left at the top of the page in unformatted text 
is "/usr/local/elog/" prepended to the text I want do display. 

I don't know if this is a bug, or (more likely) something misconfigured in 
my setup. But any help that could be provided would be most greatful.

Thanks,

Val   

This was a bug which only occurs under certain conditions, that's why nobody 
has seen it yet. I fixed it, the new version is available under CVS:

http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/src/elogd.c?rev=1.275

> This was a bug which only occurs under certain conditions, that's why nobody 
> has seen it yet. I fixed it, the new version is available under CVS:
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/src/elogd.c?rev=1.275

Great! 

I'm inclined to wait until you release a new rpm with the changes, as I'm 
likely to mucky things up by trying to upgrade from the cvs archive rather than 
using the rpm mechanics. 

But glad to hear it's fixed.  

By the way, ELOG is a fantastic tool. I'm very thankful for all the effort gone 
into it. I do wish there were standard sql hooks, as I'm a bit fearful of how 
it will scale. But the front-end, which is often most neglected, is well 
thought out.  Thanks so much, Val

Is there a way to configure elog so users that have their email notification
on only get notified for updates to logs they have access to? I've looked
all through the documentation and I can't seem to find a way to do this.

If not is there some way I can work around this without to much trouble?  I
have lots of logs and would really hate to have to make configuration
changes in all of them .

Having the message body mailed to you is very convenient but some of my
users only get to see their logs. If the body gets mailed to them they get
to see everything anyway. 

When I had to use separate password files this wasn't an issue.

> Is there a way to configure elog so users that have their email notification
> on only get notified for updates to logs they have access to? I've looked
> all through the documentation and I can't seem to find a way to do this.

I guess you have a global password file and use "login user" statements for 
your logbooks. I have added some code which does per default not send any 
email to people who are not in the "login user" list, in case this list is 
present. New code under CVS. Please give it a try and let me know if it works 
for you.

- STefan