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  257   Fri Mar 21 16:52:12 2003 Reply Recai Oktasroktas@omu.edu.trInfo  Re: Re: Elog and SSL
Ooops, I destroyed the original post, now how can we fix this :)
  300   Tue Apr 22 19:58:13 2003 Entry Recai Oktasroktas@omu.edu.trQuestion  Re: Converting logs
> Here is the error:
> 
> Cannot find any ??????.log file in this directory.

`elconv' is just a simple tool to convert pre 2.0 log files to the current
format. (Well, after all these confusions, dropping it from the future
releases won't be surprising -at least for me- ;) You might try some
well-known text-processing tools ie. preferably awk or perl to make the
required conversions. But I think using comma or tab as the delimiter is not
suitable due to the content of logs. If all you want is importing them to
excel/word, you should play with the delimiter options of mentioned programs
before trying a solution.
  381   Mon Jun 30 02:41:33 2003 Entry Recai Oktasroktas@omu.edu.trBug fixMac OSX2.3.8Re: runtime error under Mac OS X 10.2
Seems a stack problem.  I don't have an OS X box to validate my guess.  I've
made a Google search with the keywords: EXC_BAD_ACCESS stack "os x"

Perhaps the following reply [1] might help...

  How big are they? You're probably running into the default stack size 
  limit, which is 512 KB. Try `unlimit stacksize` in your shell before 
  running, which will give you 65536 KB per stack.

[1] http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/archives/gtkrad-macos/2003-January/000453.html
  943   Mon Feb 14 18:49:44 2005 Warning Recai Oktasroktas@omu.edu.trInfoLinux2.5.7Re: ELOG security vulnerability fixed, IMPORTANT!!!!
Attention to Debian users;

I've prepared the fixed package and also contacted to Debian Security Team for
an urgent security upload.  Since then you may wish to update your package from
the following URL:

  http://l10n-turkish.alioth.debian.org/debian/elog_2.5.7+r1558-1_i386.deb

Or you can also make an update via apt-get by adding the below line to your
'/etc/apt/sources.list' file:

  deb http://l10n-turkish.alioth.debian.org/debian/ ./

> The second vulnerability had to do with write passwords. If you put a "write
> password = xxx" statement into your config file, it was still possible to
> download the config file with a special hand-written URL, and decode the
> write password, which is usually only base-64 encoded unless you haven't
> compiled elog with the -DHAVE_CRYPT flag.

FYI, Debian package has already been compiled with this flag.

 -- Recai Oktas, Maintainer of Debian package
  1002   Wed Mar 23 05:56:35 2005 Warning Recai Oktasroktas@omu.edu.trInfoLinux New Debian package (2.5.8+r1592) -- needs testing
Hi to all,

I've prepared a new Debian package.  This version will probably be the one
which you'll find in Sarge/stable.

There are some invasive changes in this version which call for a serious
test.  In accordance with a suggestion, I've changed the configuration
mechanism.  For details, please read the NEWS.Debian file attached.

Could the Debian users who follow this forum test it and give some feedback?
You can download the package from the following link:

  http://l10n-turkish.alioth.debian.org/debian/elog_2.5.8+r1592-1_i386.deb

Thanks in advance for your participation,
Attachment 1: NEWS.Debian
elog (2.5.7+r1589-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Starting from this version, /etc/default/elog is installed as part
    of the package.  Following variables (with default values) can
    be used in /etc/default/elog:

      # Host where elogd will run.
      # HOST=localhost

      # Be verbose.
      # VERBOSE=yes

      # Port where elogd will run.
      PORT=8080

      # Logbook root directory.
      LOGBOOKDIR=/var/lib/elog

      # Resource directory (i.e. themes, icons).
      RESOURCEDIR=/usr/share/elog

    These variables will become the command line options of elogd.
    Since command line options always supersede the corresponding
    options in config file, the existence of such a file provides a
    way to discriminate two roles: System admin (root) and Elog admin.
    Elog config file (/etc/elog.conf) now represents the Elog admin's
    settings, while /etc/default/elog corresponds to the system admin's
    settings.  For example, if system admin defines the following line,
    the Elog admin's port setting in config file will be ignored and
    ELOG will always listen port '80' (note that the compiled-in
    default port is '8080'):

      PORT=80

    One can also change the logbook repository location by using the
    same mechanism, e.g. to set the data directory as '/srv/elog' (as
    suggested in FHS v2.3) use the following line:

      LOGBOOKDIR=/srv/elog

    Maintainer scripts should gracefully handle this transition.  But
    please note that those system admin's settings listed above should
    not be used in elog.conf, even though Elog allows it.

 -- Recai Oktaş <roktas@omu.edu.tr>  Sun, 20 Mar 2005 05:09:57 +0200
  1006   Wed Mar 23 16:44:32 2005 Agree Recai Oktasroktas@omu.edu.trInfoLinux Re: New Debian package (2.5.8+r1592) -- needs testing
> It seems to work nice to me.
> Just another suggestion: I think it would be better to insert a commented out
> example for all allowed parameters in the distributed  /etc/default/elog

Thanks for the test.  Please note that, /etc/default/elog is partially auto
created during the installation.  All options except PIDFILE and CONFFILE are
currently listed (as configured or commented out).  If you didn't see these
options (after the update), there must be a problem.   Did you mean the lack of
PIDFILE and CONFFILE in the default file?
  66216   Sat Feb 21 03:53:42 2009 Question Razvan Gorneagornea@gmail.comBug reportLinux2.7.5problem reading attached PDF files!

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody else seen this problem and maybe has a solution. I use Elog version 2.7.5 rev. 2172 that I compiled from the tar.gz package on a Ubuntu PC. It is very strange that everything works fine except I can not view / download PDF attachments specifically. I can view / download images and I can download all sorts of file formats: xls, doc, ppt, etc. Viewing in the same window / tab or in a different one does not work. Saving the attachment produces a file empty file with the correct name! This is so strange, for example following a link from an image or any other attachment type works but if that link is a PDF file I get an empty page! When uploading a PDF file there a thumbnails that are generated, I do view the thumbnail but not the PDF itself! I didn't even managed to start a download on PDF attachment.

Any help would be appreciated!

  66218   Sat Feb 21 21:13:43 2009 Reply Razvan Gorneagornea@gmail.comBug reportLinux2.7.5Re: problem reading attached PDF files!

Stefan Ritt wrote:

 

Razvan Gornea wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody else seen this problem and maybe has a solution. I use Elog version 2.7.5 rev. 2172 that I compiled from the tar.gz package on a Ubuntu PC. It is very strange that everything works fine except I can not view / download PDF attachments specifically. I can view / download images and I can download all sorts of file formats: xls, doc, ppt, etc. Viewing in the same window / tab or in a different one does not work. Saving the attachment produces a file empty file with the correct name! This is so strange, for example following a link from an image or any other attachment type works but if that link is a PDF file I get an empty page! When uploading a PDF file there a thumbnails that are generated, I do view the thumbnail but not the PDF itself! I didn't even managed to start a download on PDF attachment.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

This sounds to me like you have a problem on your browser. I know that Acrobat Reader sometimes causes problems. The current version always crashes my broswer, so I cannot display PDFs inline, I rather have to same them, and the open them for display. Maybe you have a simlar problem. Since you see the PDF thumbnails, I believe that the PDF operations indise ELOG are ok. Can you view PDFs from other websites? Have you tried another browser? Maybe on another computer?

- Stefan 

 

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I just checked the access from two other computers and indeed it works. I tried to see what is the problem with my browser, I use Firefox 3.0.6 and tried to get a PDF from the web. So I do have the same problem with other sites for viewing a PDF, I mean when I click on a PDF link I get a white page and the browser does not invoke any plug-in or Acrobat Reader. But the major difference with Elog is that with other sites I can always right click on the link and do "Save as" and it starts the download and I get a valid file. With elog it does start the download but I get an empty file. Actually I checked inside and it is not really empty, it is a text file, here I attached an example (the content of the file when I tried to download a PDF from the Elog server):

gornea@hadriana ~
$ cat Ba_source_GG_Feb09.pdf
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<title>ELOG Login</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.png" type="image/png" />
</head>
<body OnLoad="document.form1.uname.focus();">
<form name=form1 method="POST" action="./" enctype="multipart/form-data">

<input type=hidden name=redir value="090219_111057/Ba_source_GG_Feb09.pdf">
<table class="dlgframe" cellspacing=0 align=center><tr><td colspan=2 class="dlgtitle">Please login</td></tr>
<tr><td align=right class="dlgform">Username:</td>
<td align=left class="dlgform"><input type=text name=uname value=""></td></tr>
<tr><td align=right class="dlgform">Password:</td>
<td align=left class="dlgform"><input type=password name=upassword></td></tr>
<tr><td align=center colspan=2 class="dlgform"><input type=checkbox checked name=remember value=1>
Keep me logged in on this computer<br>
for the next 31 days or until I log out</td></tr>
<tr><td align=center colspan=2 class="dlgform">
<a href="?cmd=Forgot">Forgot password?</a></td></tr>
<tr><td align=center colspan=2 class="dlgform"><input type=submit value="Submit"></td></tr></table>
<center><a class="bottomlink" title="Goto ELOG home page" href="https://midas.psi.ch/elog/">ELOG V2.7.5-2172</a></center></form></body></html>
 

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