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

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

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. 

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.

[Demo]
Attributes = Author, Subject

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.

> Hi, 
> 
> I am playing with the elog automatic subscription script, but somehow I am failing in submitting an entry. 
> I am using a syntax as this:
> 
> echo test | elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 8085 -d /usr/local/elogbooks/Elog -l "Sub Elog" -a "Type=MyType" -x -u user passwd
> 
> and I get a message which says: 
> "cannot get host name: Success"
> 
> which seems contradictory and also there is no entry submitted. 
> 
> The command is executed on the host where the elog is running, the port and directory are taken from the cfg File. 
> 
> What is my mistake, where is my misunderstanding of the documentation?
> 
> Any hints appreciated. 
> 
> Erik

The "-d" option is certainly wrong. This is only used when running elog under Apache. But otherwise it should work. I 
tried it myself and it went fine. Try to add a "-v" flag to see verbose output.

Your syntax is correct. If you try a big font for example

     Cell Style Status Fixed  = background-color:green;font-size:40px

it will work. The problem here is that the text decoration is defined differently since it's a link. The CSS defines these style via

/* standard link colors and decorations */
a:link { color:#0000FF; text-decoration:none }
a:visited { color:#800080; text-decoration:none }
a:hover { color:#0000FF; text-decoration:underline }
a:active { color:#0000FF; text-decoration:underline }
a:focus { color:#0000FF; text-decoration:underline }