Hi,

I am setting up an elog to organize my lab activities. I installed elog 2.8.0 on the latest CentOS 5.5, 32 bit. I got into trouble setting up the automated email notification.

According to the elog manual, I setup the smtp setting in the elogd.cfg as follows:

SMTP host = smtp.gmail.com
SMTP username = jianglai.liu
 

I then used "elogd -t" to encode the password into the configuration file.

But when I submit an entry, I always received: "Error sending Email via "smtp.gmail.com": 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. y17sm867489wfd.15"

If I switched to use my university email servers, similar things happened.

SMTP host = smtp.sjtu.edu.cn
SMTP username = jianglai.liu

I got "Error sending Email via "smtp.sjtu.edu.cn": 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: another step is needed in authentication"

I also switched to use one of my old work server

SMTP host = smtp-server.its.caltech.edu
SMTP username = jliu

and ended up with the same error message.

I did a google search on this without much progress. I would appreciate it very much if someone could shed light on how do I fix this.

Thanks much!

Hi, 

I am playing with the elog automatic subscription script, but somehow I am failing in submitting an entry. 
I am using a syntax as this:

echo test | elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 8085 -d /usr/local/elogbooks/Elog -l "Sub Elog" -a "Type=MyType" -x -u user passwd

and I get a message which says: 
"cannot get host name: Success"

which seems contradictory and also there is no entry submitted. 

The command is executed on the host where the elog is running, the port and directory are taken from the cfg File. 

What is my mistake, where is my misunderstanding of the documentation?

Any hints appreciated. 

Erik

Nasty nasty. I prepared a longish post and only because I forgot to click an Icon of choice, all my message is lost.

Thus in short:

openssl/ssl.h isn't there.

I assume I got to get it from openssl.org.

But where do I put it in the compilation tree?

--

Christoph

 Replying to my own post: libdev-ssl wasn't installed.

--

Christoph

> Hi, 
> 
> I am playing with the elog automatic subscription script, but somehow I am failing in submitting an entry. 
> I am using a syntax as this:
> 
> echo test | elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 8085 -d /usr/local/elogbooks/Elog -l "Sub Elog" -a "Type=MyType" -x -u user passwd
> 
> and I get a message which says: 
> "cannot get host name: Success"
> 
> which seems contradictory and also there is no entry submitted. 
> 
> The command is executed on the host where the elog is running, the port and directory are taken from the cfg File. 
> 
> What is my mistake, where is my misunderstanding of the documentation?
> 
> Any hints appreciated. 
> 
> Erik

The "-d" option is certainly wrong. This is only used when running elog under Apache. But otherwise it should work. I 
tried it myself and it went fine. Try to add a "-v" flag to see verbose output.

elog only supports basic authentication, not TLS or SSL. These days more and more SMTP servers require this however. I will put this on my to-do list. In meantime you can maybe configure your CentOS machine acting as an SMTP server, and then not using TLS or SSL there. That's what most people do.

Hi,

I'm trying to configure Elog such that users can self-register. But no luck so far.
I cannot get the login screen. I'm connecting to a logbook (and I can do this without logging in).
Shouldn't I get a screen to login/register?

Here is my elogd.cfg:
[global]
Port=8880
Password file = /usr/local/elog/logbooks/passwd
SMTP host = smtp.mydomain.de
SMTP user = kuku
Logfile = /usr/local/elog/logs/elog.log
Admin user = kuku other
Login user = abc def ghi
SSL=1
URL=https://www.mydomain.de:8880/
Self register = 1
Menu commands = List, New, Edit, Reply, Duplicate, Find, Config, Logout, Help
Guest menu commands = List, Find, Login, Help

Admin user = me@mydomain.de
[Demo]
Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4neBt9xnX44YYQay15Yu9PyLC9hK6sifI9
Attributes = Author, Status
[Linux]
Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4next9PnXShhQQa515Yu9PyLC9hK6sifI9
Attributes = Author, Status
[Windows]
Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4neBt9PnXShhQQay15YuxPyLC9hK6sifI9
Attributes = Author, Status

I just got a Proxy error from your site: When I clicked on the change password link that was sent to my email, I entered my new password (which was the same that I believed to have used before) and after submitting this form, I got the Proxy error. Also I find that I can never login with my once set password. Is it the Email or username on gives in the login field? Other quirk: I never can preview my post. When I click preview, nothing happens. Submitting worked today but yesterday I was unable to submit a post. I clicked several times on the submit button and nothing happened. -- Christoph