Right, I should have restarted the server. Thanks! Everything looks perfect now!

Then it must be a typo in your elogd.cfg, or you forgot to restart the server. At the bottom of the elog page you must see ELOG V2.7.8-2294 like on this page. For the Demo logbook (accessible via "Demo" on the top left corner of this page, you can see how it works (Type=Routine gets green).

The problem is still there in 2.7.8-5. The following line 'Cell Style Status Done = background-color:green' does not do anything whereas 'Style Status Done = background-color:green' highlights the whole row. Is that fixed?

Thanks,

Ruslan.

 Thanks a lot Stefan.

This is an intermediate (-5) release. Usually I do not build the tar files, since linux users can always grab the source code via SVN and built it themselves. I just make the for the Windows users since most of the do not have a C compiler. Exceptionally I made a 2.7.8-5.tar file for you, which you can obtain from the download area. 

Hello Stefan,

I can not find 2.7.8-5 tar file. Could you please point where it is?

Thanks,

Ruslan.

Hello:

I am running release 2.7.8 of elog. I am using the cloning/syncing features
to maintain a backup/slave and at some point it stopped cloning the password
file.

Operating systems/software:

   master: ubuntu 10.4 using locally compiled elog 2.7.8-2278
   slave: solaris 10 using locally compile elog 2.7.8 without SSL support

A sample run (hostname edited - available by private email if needed) is:

  $../elogd -C http://host.example.org:8080/ 
  Overwrite local "elogd.cfg"? [y]/n:  y

  Remote configuration successfully received.

  Option "Mirror server = http://host.example.org:8080/" added to config file.
  Option "URL = xxx" has been outcommented from config file.

  Retrieve remote password files? [y]/n:  y
  Received invalid response from elogd server at http://host.example.org:8080/Discussion/

Running with -v doesn't produce any useful diagnostics as to what the invalid response is.

Trussing the process (again with host name editing) shows:

send(3, 0xFFBEE890, 93, 0)                      = 93
   G E T   / D i s c u s s i o n / ? c m d = G e t P w d F i l e  
   H T T P / 1 . 0\r\n C o n n e c t i o n :   C l o s e\r\n H o s
   t :   h o s t . e x a m p l e . o r g : 8 0 8 0\r\n\r\n
poll(0xFFBEC070, 1, 30000)                      = 1
recv(3, 0x011057B0, 251000, 0)                  = 119
   H T T P / 1 . 1   4 0 4   N o t   F o u n d\r\n S e r v e r :  
   E L O G   H T T P   2 . 7 . 8 - 2 2 7 8\r\n C o n t e n t - T y
   p e :   t e x t / h t m l ; c h a r s e t = I S O - 8 8 5 9 - 1
  \r\n C o n n e c t i o n :   C l o s e\r\n\r\n

If logged in as myself I go to http://host.example.org:8080/Discussion/?cmd=GetPwdFile
I do get the data so this looks like a password/authentication issue.

I have added Mirror user = rouilj to elogd.cfg, and it is present in the cloned elogd.cfg
but still no joy. I also copied the passwd file to the clone and made sure that it was being
successfully found and opened during the clone operation.

So where do I go from here in trying to troubleshoot the problem?

-- rouilj

Hi Stefan, we would also like to see synchronization with SSL working. Hopefully now this task can slip even higher on your to-do list.   It is a real pain to get to the elog from outside PSI, when elogd is running inside PSI (which it must be when working as an online logbook with MIDAS). We would very much ike to mirror it on a server outside PSI.