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  66397   Mon Jun 15 12:57:17 2009 Reply W.KosterW.Koster@rug.nlQuestionLinuxV2.7.6-219Re: wrapping long lines in config file

Stefan Ritt wrote:

What I do is to use an editor with automatic wrapping functions, like the free PSPad editor. It nicely wraps line and indicates that:



Hmmm... I have to use vi and was hoping an \ at the end of the line (before the LF) would be supported.
  66398   Mon Jun 15 16:36:38 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinuxV2.7.6-219Re: wrapping long lines in config file

W.Koster wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

What I do is to use an editor with automatic wrapping functions, like the free PSPad editor. It nicely wraps line and indicates that:



Hmmm... I have to use vi and was hoping an \ at the end of the line (before the LF) would be supported.


Use a real editor Wink

I seem to remember that Emacs can be configured for automatic line wrapping.
  66400   Wed Jun 17 03:46:31 2009 Warning soren poulsensoren.poulsen@cern.chRequestLinux2.7.6Denial of access after failed import using invalid attributes

Hi,

A user tried to import a CSV file, which caused e-log to add a field called "date" to the list of attributes (and then crash). This caused the log-book to be blocked until someone (guess who) would go edit the elogd.cfg file and then trigger a reload.

1. suggestion : E-log should not crash in this case

2. suggestion: E-log should not allow invalid attributes to be added via CSV Import, which causes the log-book to be blocked.

For the time being, I will just  "Deny import" (by the way, the doc says it is "Deny CSV import", but I think the syntax is "Deny import". Not really important.

I think this should be quite easy to reproduce.

Thanks a lot

Soren

  66404   Wed Jun 17 22:01:57 2009 Question soren poulsensoren.poulsen@cern.chQuestionLinux2.7.6Export and save problem with IE7

Hi

Would it be possible to use the "Export to:" function with IE7 on the Forum logbook, and save the logbook.

I can do the export but saving the file with IE7 does not work. Saving the file with Firefox, Chrome, Safari works.

This makes me think that E-log is good and IE7 is bad ?

Soren

 

 

  66418   Thu Jun 25 12:30:17 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestLinux2.7.6Re: Denial of access after failed import using invalid attributes

soren poulsen wrote:

Hi,

A user tried to import a CSV file, which caused e-log to add a field called "date" to the list of attributes (and then crash). This caused the log-book to be blocked until someone (guess who) would go edit the elogd.cfg file and then trigger a reload.

1. suggestion : E-log should not crash in this case

2. suggestion: E-log should not allow invalid attributes to be added via CSV Import, which causes the log-book to be blocked.

For the time being, I will just  "Deny import" (by the way, the doc says it is "Deny CSV import", but I think the syntax is "Deny import". Not really important.

I think this should be quite easy to reproduce.

Thanks a lot

Soren

If the CSV file contains a "date" column, elogd tries to interprete the date to the internal format. Now a date can be written in a huge number of variations, and I'm sure I did not cover all. So please send me your CSV file and I will fix the crash. 

  66419   Thu Jun 25 15:02:55 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestLinux2.7.6Re: Formatting list page data

Steve Williamson wrote:

Thanks for a great piece of software - it does so much and is (mostly) so simple to use.  However, I do have a suggestion that (for me, at least) would make it even better -

I use elog for a variety of logging tasks but find that, because I want to see as complete a summary as possible, the list page can get very crowded with longer fields wrapping over several lines.  I would like to have more control over the way attributes are displayed here.  Specifically, being able to truncate data (e.g. to show just the first n characters of a description), being able to select a substring (e.g. displaying characters before the '@' character to remove the domain from an email address or displaying characters after the space to remove the day from a date in ddd dd/mm/yy format) and being able to concatenate fields (e.g. to show a reference in a single cell as "Incident 1234" by joining call type and call reference attributes).

regards

Steve

Something along these lines is however not implemented (and hard to do). The only chance you have is to export your data into a spreadsheet and do the reformatting/report generation there. 

  66420   Thu Jun 25 15:37:14 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux2.7.6Re: Export and save problem with IE7

soren poulsen wrote:

Hi

Would it be possible to use the "Export to:" function with IE7 on the Forum logbook, and save the logbook.

I can do the export but saving the file with IE7 does not work. Saving the file with Firefox, Chrome, Safari works.

This makes me think that E-log is good and IE7 is bad ?

Soren 

Right   

It seems to be a well known probmel with IE: http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/files/directories-fso/how-do-i-send-the-correct-filename-with-binarywrite.html 

So I tried all variations there, but none of them worked. The interesting thing is that it works if you use it locally, but not with the forum (which has an additional "/elogs" in the URL).

 

 

  66421   Thu Jun 25 15:55:04 2009 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chOtherLinux2.7.6-2211Re: Move to: elog crashes with large no of entries being moved.
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> I've been slowly moving threads, and twice now so far (and reproducably) had elog crash.
> 
> In each case, it is trying to move a thread with more than 24 entries; it copies the first 24 entries, then
> crashes with "Segmentation Fault".  It does not erase the lock file /var/run/elog.pid
> 
> I have got around this by manually copying the entries beyond no 24, then deleting the thread entry by entry.
> 
> I am aware that I have an old and limited machine (586, 256MB RAM, running Slack 10), and at first I was
> "content" to write it off as that; but when it crashed for the second time at exactly the same entry (the
> twenty-forth) even though the size of the entries would have been significantly different, I wondered if there
> was some factor within  elog that could affect this.
> 
> I've not tried it with Copy to:, but imagine it will also be affected as the only difference with this and Move
> to: is the deletion of the thread after all the entries had been copied.

I reworked the internal memory allocation, since there was a stack overflow going over 24 entries. It should be now 
much better. Give a try to revision 2226.
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