Which password scheme are you using? Is it Read passoword = ... or Password file = ...? If you use a password file (that's what most people do) you have to create yourself an account just as you did for this forum here. There is no other way to enter the encrypted password into the password file. Just follow "To start a new password file..." in the documentation.

Grrr.  Forgetting to pick an icon means my message was blasted.

I have installed elog 2.7.8 and it is running.  When I connect to it and get a login window, I am always denied.  If I remove the passwords, then I can login with no password information.  I have tried both command line for setting passwords and directly in the elogd.cfg file.

Suggestions on what I might be doing wrong would be appreciated.

Regards,

Ian

PS - are there RESTful interfaces to automate the generation of log entries via an HTTP POST or HTTP GET?

No, you never submitted any file. It was missing in all your posts. In worst case send it by email to me. 

 Ok, I am now assuming the offending log file has been removed. Correct?

Hi Stefan,

I recently installed the latest Elog 2.7.8 revision 2277 after running Elog 2.7.7 revision 2246 for several months without any problems. However once I submit an entry by using the Reply command Elog crashes and Windows XP reports an error message screen. This also stops the elogd service.

I have pinpointed it down to the command "subst on reply Subject = $Subject" by removing my whole configuration file and just added the line "subst on reply Subject = $Subject" to your demo configuration file.

Elog seems to also stops the elogd service with any "subst on reply" command.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you,

Regards

Cliff Shaw

Attributes = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
Options Type = ABD{1}, DEF{2}
Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions
{1}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions, Department
{2}Show Attributes Edit = Author, Type, Status, Revisions

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

Options Status = New, Under progress, Closed
Subst Revisions = $date status $status
Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date status $status

I installed the latest windows Version but have massive Problems with it. I can create a new entry and the revisions filed is updated. If I want to change the status field from "new" to e.g. "under progress" the elogd service at the server crashes every time i want to save the changes so i switched back to 2.7.5-2130 and it works without any service crashes.

> > 
> > The certificate that is on there right now is the one that gets created when you install elogs.  I have tried 
> > creating one with a windows server 2008 box with the CA role installed.  The certificate is created without issue 
> > and I can install it on the server but when I try to restart the elog service it wont start until I put the 
> > original server.crt and server.key file back into the ssl directory.  
> > 
> 
> I don't know anything about Windows server CA, but eLog is very strict in the syntax of the CERTs.
> I had to learn it the hard way when installing a chain CERT.
> 
> For server.crt and server.key it MUST NOT be a chain cert. Therefor you have to use chain.crt
> 
> Are the generated CERTs ASCII (with only one -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and -----END CERTIFICATE----- in
> server.crt 
> and -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- and -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- in server.key)?
> 
> So the eLog generated keys should look like..
> 
> GS

Thanks for your reply.  I appreciate it alot.

When I created my certificate it came out as a .cer [there was no .key file] and looking at the code that was posted 
below it looks like unless there is a server.crt and server.key file in the ssl folder the program will exit:  So I 
guess I need to figure out how to generate a certificate that elog will understand using a .key file and a .crt file.  
So I might have to research certificates more.

To be honest I'm not an expert on SSL. I just use following code inside ELOG to initialize the SSL connection:

SSL_CTX *init_ssl(void)
{
   char str[256];
   SSL_METHOD *meth;
   SSL_CTX *ctx;

   SSL_library_init();
   SSL_load_error_strings();

   meth = SSLv23_method();
   ctx = SSL_CTX_new(meth);

   strlcpy(str, resource_dir, sizeof(str));
   strlcat(str, "ssl/server.crt", sizeof(str));
   if (!file_exist(str)) {
      eprintf("Cerificate file \"%s\" not found, aborting\n", str);
      return NULL;
   }
   if (SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file(ctx, str, SSL_FILETYPE_PEM) < 0)
      return NULL;

   strlcpy(str, resource_dir, sizeof(str));
   strlcat(str, "ssl/server.key", sizeof(str));
   if (!file_exist(str)) {
      eprintf("Key file \"%s\" not found, aborting\n", str);
      return NULL;
   }
   if (SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(ctx, str, SSL_FILETYPE_PEM) < 0)
      return NULL;
   if (SSL_CTX_check_private_key(ctx) < 0)
      return NULL;

   strlcpy(str, resource_dir, sizeof(str));
   strlcat(str, "ssl/chain.crt", sizeof(str));
   if (file_exist(str))
      SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file(ctx, str);

   return ctx;
}

> > The certificate that is on there right now is the one that gets created when you install elogs.  I have tried 
> > creating one with a windows server 2008 box with the CA role installed.  The certificate is created without issue 
> > and I can install it on the server but when I try to restart the elog service it wont start until I put the 
> > original server.crt and server.key file back into the ssl directory.  
> 
> How did you install the certificate? Maybe it ended up in the IIS directory and not in the elog directory?

That is a good point.  I just installed the cert by double clicking on it.  Then selecting either trusted root CA or 
personal to install the certificate.  Is there a different way to install the certificate for elog?

Thanks alot for your help.