Hi Ryan,

as far as I remember the Debian package is not supported any more. The "make install" assumes Red-hat style installation directories (you can see it in elog/Makefile, all the installation directories are installed there).

I have no idea where Debian is supposed to install the binaries. But you should be able to use GNU "locate" to find the old files: "locate elog" and "locate elogd" should tell you where the old binaries had been installed.

Kind Regards, Andreas

Hi Andreas,

Thank you so much for the reply and info; Much appreciated!  I turned up a CentOS 6 VM and the installation, using the RPM's provided on the 'downloads' page here, worked perfectly and was very straight-forward and easy.

The D/L page includes the Debian repositories (which is how I installed on Debian in the first place) but only installed v2.5.2.  I needed to get to the newest version (ELOG V2.9.2-2455) so I can setup authentication and SSH.  (And also so that when I am reading the manuals and documentation online, provided at this site, that is makes sense to the version I am running.)  I also want to add that it seems that I am able to bring over my older 2.5.2 logbooks to 2.9.2 without any problem.  To do that, I just rsync'd the logbooks from old to new.  They seem to work just fine under the newest version.

I'm good to go.  Anyone looking for an easy deployment of ELOG, especially in a production environment, I can attest that the RPM's provided here make it very simple to deploy on Cent6.

Thanks!

 Hi All,

I'm looking for a way (or if it is even possible?) for users to browse between logbooks without being logged out of their current logbook if they click on a logbook they are not authorised to access?
If they accidentally choose the wrong logbook they are forced to log back in again?

No guest access has been configured on any log.

TIA
 

Hi all,

I am successfully using ELOG V2.9.2-2455 to manage several laboratory logs.

I am looking for a way, if possible, to format the subject attribute in bold type while in thread display.

I've used the following code

Display Subject = <b>$subject</b>

with no success, then I've tried

Subst Subject = <b>$subject</b>

again with no success. It seems that the <b> tag is not iterpreted.

Have you any suggestion about this?

Thank you in advance.

Paolo

1st: If you want to use HTML tags in the display of attributes, you need to add "Allow HTML = 1" in the configuration.

2nd: The proper command is not "Display <attribute> = ..." but "Change <attribute> = ...". It is actually correct in the documentation (Change <attribute> = <string>), but the example is wrong (Display Telephone = <a href="http://any.company.com/telbook.cgi?search=$Name">$Name's telephone number</a>)

Stefan should fix the example in https://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#attrib some day.

Thanks, I fixed the documentation.

/Stefan 

Dear Andreas,

thank you very much for your prompt reply and for you suggestions, which helped me to solve the problem. Now it's all working perfectly.

Cheers,

Paolo

[[Going to execute: /bin/sh -c "identify -format '%wx%h %c' '/home/elog/elog-2.9.2/logbooks/HardwareLog/140218_120423_2014-02-18_remod_(extended_II).png.png'" > /tmp/elog-shell 2>&1
Falling back to default group "elog"
Falling back to default user "elog"
*** buffer overflow detected ***: elogd terminated