Execute new = echo "New message wiht ID $message id of type $type from $long_name on $remote_host" >> /tmp/elog.log

It does not seem to have the intended effect (of printing a line with the message id, etc in the file /tmp/elog.log
)

How can I make this line work ?

Soren

 Thanks a lot for replying despite the heat. Yes, I executed with the "-x" flag.

It is just a quoting problem, I guess. This line works:

Execute new = echo New message with ID $message id of type $type from $long_name on $remote_host >> /tmp/elog.log

It evaluates to:

SHELL "echo New message with ID 24706 of type elogtype from Soren Poulsen on 137.138.22.11 >> /tmp/elog.log"
 

So next step is to replace "new" with "edit" and "delete".

That works as well.

Soren

We have been hosting logbook far (geographically and in internet hops) from our experimental site. Recently we have (finally!) gotten reliable on-site internet, and would like to host the log book on-site.

I have a suspicion that some combination of the -C, -m, and -M flags will allow me to migrate the logbook automagically and with a minimum risk of trouble from concurrent operation on the logbook, and to maintain the existing version as a mirror of the new official on-site version. But documentation is not being very helpful. Can someone say a few more words about what these options do?

I've been experimenting as I compose this and have a suggestion for language that might be useful somewhere in the documentation:

In this context "to clone" means to copy the configuration file and all data files associated with a log book so that I can host an identical logbook on a new host (that is this is the command to migrate a logbook).  After cloning the two installation are identical, but no effort is made to keep them so: if you continue to run both copies post made to one will not be reflected in the other.

Is this correct?

I'm still not clear on what the -m and -M options do.

Execute new = echo "New message wiht ID $message id of type $type from $long_name on $remote_host" >> /tmp/elog.log

It does not seem to have the intended effect (of printing a line with the message id, etc in the file /tmp/elog.log
)

How can I make this line work ?

Soren

Have you started the server with the "-x" flag as written in the documentation? 

Hi

I am trying to use this line from the documentation:

Execute new = echo "New message wiht ID $message id of type $type from $long_name on $remote_host" >> /tmp/elog.log

It does not seem to have the intended effect (of printing a line with the message id, etc in the file /tmp/elog.log
)

How can I make this line work ?

Soren

The first thing you can do with "Guest menu commands", where you enable only those commands which can't change or delete entries. The second thing you can only do if you put your entries into two separate logbooks, a public and a private one. 

Hi,

I have just discovered elog and I absolutely love it.

I have a question. Is there a way to enable user to view only, not post/delete in my elog. Also I would like to allow them to view only certain categories of my messages.

Regards,

Denis

Then the answer is no. 

 A configuration option to specify a different/alternate javascript based editor.