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  2064   Thu Nov 9 23:10:08 2006 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux2.6.1-1684Re: How can I configure to prevent empty entries?

Alan Stone wrote:
I have accidentally created a couple of entries recently. It is pretty easy. I
fill in the header, type in a Subject, and then hit Enter, instead of TAB.
I have turned off the edit option intentionally.

I want to avoid this in the future. Is there a configuration option which would
confirm that the user before submitting an entry without a Body? I know I can require
attributes like Author and Subject. I am not sure I want to require a Body, in case
someone submits an entry with just an attachment (and a Subject).

Thanks, Alan


Actually the submit/edit behavior is controlled by your browser, not by elog. I do not know any mean of how the HTML code could control this independently of the browser. So you have to get used to it Wink
  2078   Wed Nov 15 18:50:02 2006 Reply Arckonitcrashrunover@hotmail.comRequestLinux2.6.1Re: add field type to automatically email CC

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Mark Bergman wrote:
I've got logbooks where I'm submitting entries on behalf of other users, or where other people should be notified of the ticket. This isn't a fixed list of people, and shouldn't be hard-coded into a config file. I've got a field to enter the user's e-mail address, but there's no action associated with that data.

I'd like to see a new field type that allows the entry of e-mail addresses, where each addresses supplied with the logfile entry would be automatically "CC'ed" in the notification e-mail. Ideally, people on the CC list would be (optionally) CC'ed when there are replies or edits to the original elog entry.


For example (snippet of fictional elogd.cfg):

-------------------------------
[web site]
Welcome Title = Issues regarding the web site
MOptions Category = Add links, Change content, Broken Link, Other
CCMailTo = Notification List
Attributes = Author, Category, Severity, Subject, Entry ID, Status, User, Login
Extendable Attributes = Category, Severity, Subject, Status, User, Login, Notification List
Required Attributes = Category, Subject, Status, User
-------------------------------


Just do the following:
Attributes = Author, Category, Notification list
Email all = $Notification list

Whenever you enter a new entry, you put a list of email addresses into the Notification list, which is then used for sending email addresses. This list also stays there in replies or edits.



mmmm when i try your suggestion, it doesn't work :
error from the smtp server
Erreur lors de l'envoi d'un mél. via "172.20.0.2": Issue RCPT TO: command before DATA command

here is my config
Theme = default
Comment = Logs des modification de scripts des 3 domaines
Attributes = Acteur, Action, Type, Nom du Scripts, Language, Domaine, Categorie, Commentaires,Notification
Options Action = Ajout, Modification, Suppression, Réseau, Autre, Hotfix
Options Type = Ouverture de session,Autre, deploiement
Options Language = VBS, AU3, Kix, Batch, Ksh, Perl
Options Domaine = VaubanHumanis, Humanis, Vauban
Extendable Options = Catégorie, Type, Action
Required Attributes = Acteur, Type, Lieu
Page Title = Modification Scripts - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date, Type
Suppress Email to users = 1
# Email all = someadminsuser@maildomain.com
Email all = $Notification
Options Status = 1-To Do{1}, 2-Open{2}, 3-Closed{3}, 4-Suspended{4}

you can remark the commented line
i would like to have one fixed list, so those users will be always alerted, and to be able to add and adress email in the notification attribute, but i really don't know how to do it
thx for any suggestions
  2079   Wed Nov 15 19:33:17 2006 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestLinux2.6.1Re: add field type to automatically email CC

Arckonit wrote:
mmmm when i try your suggestion, it doesn't work :
error from the smtp server
Erreur lors de l'envoi d'un mél. via "172.20.0.2": Issue RCPT TO: command before DATA command


You get this error if no valid receiver is specified. I tried your config file and it worked fine. You need however a recent version of elog (2.6.2-7). Probably you have to upgrade.


Arckonit wrote:
you can remark the commented line
i would like to have one fixed list, so those users will be always alerted, and to be able to add and adress email in the notification attribute, but i really don't know how to do it
thx for any suggestions


You can do that with

Preset Notification = someone@mail.com, someoneelse@mail.com

So Notification gets preset with a pre-defined list, which you can edit before submission.
  2088   Wed Nov 22 02:55:48 2006 Reply Rob Mahurinrob@utk.eduCommentLinux2.5.7-1Re: Securing Elog with SSL and Apache
Hi,

I am an apache ignoramus who has been trying to follow these instructions on a Debian 3.1 box.  I got hung up for
the following reason.  I had to explicitly enable some apache features, which was a simple matter of making the
following symlinks in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled: 

	proxy.conf -> ../mods-available/proxy.conf
	proxy.load -> ../mods-available/proxy.load
	rewrite.load -> ../mods-available/rewrite.load
	headers.load -> ../mods-available/headers.load
	ssl.conf -> ../mods-available/ssl.conf
	ssl.load -> ../mods-available/ssl.load

Easy enough.  The default proxy.conf has sensible-looking warnings about not running your server as an open proxy.
 However, I wasn't able to tweak it to encrypted port forwarding from :443 to :8079.

What I've done that works is to add a local proxy section to the /etc/apache2/conf.d/elogredirect.conf by Damon
Nettles:

	<VirtualHost *:443>
		### ... everything else

		<Proxy *>
			Allow from all
		</Proxy>
	</VirtualHost>

I think, since this is in a subsection, that it only affects that virtual host.  But it'd be nice if someone who
actually understands this language would reassure me that I'm not setting myself up for some security hole.  At
any rate it took me long enough to figure this out that I thought I'd post a note in public, and this seems like
the forum to do so.

Thanks.

Rob
  2093   Mon Nov 27 17:29:41 2006 Question Peter Kovackovac@gwu.eduQuestionLinux2.6.1+r164elog (2.6.1+r1642 ubuntu/debian) regularly becomes non-responsive (w/o crashing)
Greetings~

First, the problem. Fairly regularly (at least once a week, perhaps more), our elog daemon seems to quietly die. The process is still running but anyone attempting to access the server gets "connection refused." The elog log doesn't show anything and the apache logs just show "proxy: Error reading from remote server returned by [path]". Calling a daemon restart doesn't seem to kill the daemon -- I get a "could not bind to port" error. Using kill and then starting the daemon again fixes the problem for a few days and then we start over.

The particulars:
We are running elog on an Ubuntu (6.06 Dapper Drake LTS) web server.
It's currently version 2.6.1+r1642 pulled via apt-get from the Debian repositories.
elog is hiding behind an apache2+SSL proxy.

Any thoughts? Has anyone else seen this behavior? My next step is probably to compile 2.6.2 and remove the packaged flavor but I wanted to see if this was a known bug...

Thanks,
-Peter
  2097   Tue Nov 28 10:34:54 2006 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux2.6.1+r164Re: elog (2.6.1+r1642 ubuntu/debian) regularly becomes non-responsive (w/o crashing)

Peter Kovac wrote:
First, the problem. Fairly regularly (at least once a week, perhaps more), our elog daemon seems to quietly die. The process is still running but anyone attempting to access the server gets "connection refused." The elog log doesn't show anything and the apache logs just show "proxy: Error reading from remote server returned by [path]". Calling a daemon restart doesn't seem to kill the daemon -- I get a "could not bind to port" error. Using kill and then starting the daemon again fixes the problem for a few days and then we start over.

The particulars:
We are running elog on an Ubuntu (6.06 Dapper Drake LTS) web server.
It's currently version 2.6.1+r1642 pulled via apt-get from the Debian repositories.
elog is hiding behind an apache2+SSL proxy.

Any thoughts? Has anyone else seen this behavior? My next step is probably to compile 2.6.2 and remove the packaged flavor but I wanted to see if this was a known bug...


There are three reasons why an elog server can go into an infinite loop:

  • A bug which has been fixed in meantime. If you can give a try to 2.6.2-1750 or so that could help. I'm not sure if this version is already in the Debian distribution since I'm not the maintainer there.
  • A corrupted log file. If one of the YYMMDDa.log file get some garbage (maybe due to hard disk problems etc.) the elogd server can run into an infinite loop. In that case examine all log files to see if there is anything wrong. If so, edit it manually and restart elogd.
  • Some not yet found bug. One never can exclude this of course, but at this forum I have elogd running under similar conditions like you, and it runs for months without problems.
  2103   Thu Nov 30 16:07:54 2006 Smile Bertram Metzbmetz@sbs.comQuestionLinux2.6.1-1622Re: Email notification (bug tracking system)

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Bertram Metz wrote:
Hello,

I'd like to use ELOG like a bug tracking system. I've created an attribute with the name AssignedTo. The attribute type is set to userlist. The value of AssignedTo is set to the full name of the selected user. There is no simple relationship between the full name and the email address on our system. Is it possible to get the email address of a user from the full name?

Attributes = Author, Category, Hardware, Software, Subject, Keywords, Status, AssignedTo
Options Category = Bug Report{1}, Observation{2}, Other{3}
Type AssignedTo = userlist
Show Attributes = Author, Category, Hardware, Software, Subject, Keywords
{1} Show Attributes = Author, Category, Hardware, Software, Subject, Keywords, Status, AssignedTo
Required Attributes = Author, Hardware, Software, Category
Options Status = new, open, confirmed, closed
;the following line does not work, since $AssinedTo contains the full name of the user
Email Category Bug Report = $AssignedTo@company.com

Kind regards,
Bertram


I implemented the attribute type useremail for you. This can be used like:
Attributes = Author, Catorory, AssignedTo
Type AssignedTo = useremail
Email Category Bug Report = $AssignedTo

You will see only the email address of the people in the list, but since the email address usually contains the name this might be enough. A different system would have been too difficult to implement. The new feature is contained in SVN revision 1754.


Thank you very much Stefan,
that works fine for me!

Bertram
  2126   Tue Feb 13 15:11:18 2007 Question Marcus Hausermhauser@lsw.uni-heidelberg.deQuestionLinux2.6.3-1762Re: Synchronization using https

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Alexandre Lindote wrote:
Now we want to have several servers set up (in different institutions), and have them synchronized automatically.


Synchronization works such that the "client" elogd (the one on which the synchronization is started) "emulates" a browser and accesses the other elogd server. Since SSL is not built into elogd, it can only use the http protocol, not https. If you want secure synchronization, the only chance you have is to make a SSH tunnel on which you run the http protocol for synchronization.



Would it be possible to use rsync to syncronise two elogd servers on different servers via secure synchronization on the file level?
E.g.
rsync -av -e ssh /var/lib/elog/logbooks/ elog.remote.de:/var/lib/elog/logbooks/
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