Aha, that's interesting too! I'll have to look more carefully through the documentation... :)

Hello,

I noticed a strange behaviour with Elog 2.0.4 (i386 RPM) in Linux (RH 7.2). 
I started Elog out-of-the-box with portnumber 888 ('sbin/elogd -p 888').

It runs just fine, but appears to listen to port 8080, the default! It 
looks like the -p option on the command-line is ignored.

Anyone seen similar problems? 

Joeri

> Anyone seen similar problems? 
Probably not if you read the config file, 'cause I didn't. Shame on me...

But what this shows (Stefan: correct me if I'm wrong) is that if you set 
the port number in the [global] section of the config file, the command-line
option '-p' is ignored. FYI...

Joeri

> > > Comiling elogd 2.0.4 under Solaris obviously fails with
> > > 
> > > gcc  -o elog elog.c -lsocket -lnsl
> > > gcc  -o elogd elogd.c -lsocket -lnsl
> > > elogd.c: In function `ss_file_find':
> > > elogd.c:1372: `alphasort' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > > elogd.c:1372: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > > elogd.c:1372: for each function it appears in.)
> > > make: *** [elogd] Error 1
> > > 
> > > because alphasort is an ucb'ism which does not exist under SYSV
> > > 
> > > ... not very portable :-(
> > 
> > I was not aware of this. Actually, I don't need 'alphasort' so I removed 
it 
> > from the source. The update is at
> > 
> > http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/elogd.c
> > 
> > Please give it a try.
> 
> ok - i just continued with 2.0.5, but apparently it still has an UCB'ism
> (scandir) that does not work under SYSV:
> 
> $ make
> gcc -g -o elogd elogd.c -lsocket -lnsl
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> scandir                             /tmp/ccy0Z3iV.o
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to elogd
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [elogd] Error 1
> $ egrep scandir elogd.c
>   n = scandir(path, &namelist, NULL, NULL);
> $ 
I am having the same experience with ELOG 2.0.5 and Solaris 8. Any work 
around woud be appreciated.

We use ELOG inside a local network, but we want to allow access also from outside the firewall.

The suggested solution from Elog Admin Guide worked fine until version ELOG V2.6.5-1844 (essentially without FCK Editor):

ssh -L 1234:your.server.name:8080 your.firewall.name
firefox http://localhost:1234/

Howerver, since the update to ELOG V2.7.1-2002 the FCK Editor uses absolute links to insert images.

An image uploaded from the local network will have an address like:

http://your.server.name:8080/logbookname/080207_101110/Picture.jpg

while the same image uploaded through the firewall tunnel will have a link like:

http://localhost:1234/logbookname/080207_101110/Picture.jpg

Obviously images uploaded from outside are not visible from inside and vice versa.

Is it possible to convince FCK Editor to use relative links?

PS
ELOG is great!!

ssh -L 1234:your.server.name:8080 your.firewall.name
firefox http://localhost:1234/

http://your.server.name:8080/logbookname/080207_101110/Picture.jpg

http://localhost:1234/logbookname/080207_101110/Picture.jpg

Thank you for the quick support!

I would appreciate if elog could provide a simple support for mathematical expressions.

A solution similar to wikimedia should be easy to implement and would help a lot.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows#Alternative_Solution

The idea is to parse the elog entry for a tag (e.g.  <math></math>), extract the code, wrap it into a latex file, and pass this to latex, GhostScript, and ImageMagic. (The latter are already used by Elog, therefore the changes should not be too big.) The resulting image file would then be referenced by the  elog html code.

Of course, the FCKeditor would not support LaTeX. However, the majority of elog-useres should be scientists and rather familiar with LaTeX. Therefore it should be fine if the original LaTeX code is saved (e.g. in the ALT-tag of the image) and the replacement "code to image" is undone for editing.

Kind regards,
Jochen

Hi Stefan - Do you know is Kerberos is available (compiled) on the Windows installer?

-Jimmy