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  478   Mon Feb 16 17:18:39 2004 Question Heiko Scheith.scheit@mpi-hd.mpg.de Linux2.5.0Re: -W -Wall options (using gcc)
> > Have a look at the gcc info pages:
> > 
> > $ info gcc "invoking gcc" "warning options"
> 
> Sure, I'm not stupid! 

  Sorry, didn't mean to offend you.

> I looked for ~10 minutes how to turn off the remaining 
> warnings, but I could not find it. The code is now correct, like I do want the 
> "%y" format specifier in the strftime() function, but the warning is wrong.

  One way to remove the warnings would be to use "%Y" in a separate strftime() call
  and then taking only the last two digits (characters) of that string.

  Something like:
old:
   strftime(str, sizeof(str), "%A, %d-%b-%y %H:%M:%S GMT", gmt);

new:
   strftime(str, sizeof(str), "%A, %d-%b-XX %H:%M:%S GMT", gmt);
   strftime(year, sizeof(year), "%Y", gmt);
   i=strstr(str,"XX"); /* find position of XX */
   if ( i+1 < sizeof(str) ) {
     str[i]  =year[3];
     str[i+1]=year[4];
   } else ...

  Somewhat cumbersome, but should work.  Maybe consider using the four 
  digit year directly, where possible.

  Gruss, Heiko
  479   Wed Feb 18 16:54:27 2004 Angy Heiko Scheith.scheit@mpi-hd.mpg.deBug reportLinux2.5.0elogd does not exit on SIGTERM
When trying to stop elogd processes with the kill command
elogd exits only after access to the logbook.

It should exit immediately, maybe after some cleanup.
  642   Mon Aug 2 14:56:56 2004 Warning Heiko Scheith.scheit@mpi-hd.mpg.deBug reportLinux2.5.4too many <table> tags
There are too many <table> tags when displaying a singel entry.  E.g.
in http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Config+Examples/1 the row 'Configuration Name'
is not aligned with the others (see attachment).

Looking at the HTML one sees that there are <table> tags for each row
which should not be there:

<tr><td><table width="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td nowrap
class="attribname">Author:</td><td class="attribvalue">
Stefan Ritt&nbsp</td>
</tr></table></td></tr>
Attachment 1: elog_table.jpg
elog_table.jpg
  647   Tue Aug 3 13:06:54 2004 Warning Heiko Scheith.scheit@mpi-hd.mpg.deBug reportLinux2.5.4Re: too many <table> tags
> > There are too many <table> tags when displaying a singel entry.  E.g.
> > in http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Config+Examples/1 the row 'Configuration Name'
> > is not aligned with the others (see attachment).
> 
> The <table> tags are there on purpose. As you can combine several attributes
> into one line (see this forum for example), it's necessary to make an
> independent <table> for each line. 

Couldn't one include the extra <table> tag only when there is really more than
one attribute per line.  All other lines could then be aligned properly.

To increase the width is not really a solution, since this depends on the
text size used.  See attachment with really big text.
Attachment 1: elog_table2.jpg
elog_table2.jpg
  650   Tue Aug 3 15:44:07 2004 Warning Heiko Scheith.scheit@mpi-hd.mpg.deBug reportLinux2.5.4curly parenthesis problem
Everything after curly parenthesis is ignored in attribute entry boxes 
like 'Subject' above

What I typed in the subject line was exatcly this:

  'curly parenthesis problem {abc}'
  676   Mon Aug 23 13:43:58 2004 Warning Heiko Scheith.scheit@mpi-hd.mpg.deBug fixLinux2.5.4text display of ascii files not a good idea
I think the text display of ASCII files, which is new in version
2.5.4, is not a good idea.  E.g. I had a large ps file attached
to one entry and it took a long time display this entry (over DSL).
Then I saw that the ps-file is displayed as text, which is not really 
useful.  

Probably it is fine to display only files ending in '.txt' per default.
In addition a file that has more than say 1000 lines should probably 
also not be displayed (as default, optional OK).  

Cheers, Heiko
  678   Fri Aug 27 00:49:27 2004 Angy Heiko Scheith.scheit@mpi-hd.mpg.deBug reportLinux2.5.0Re: elogd does not exit on SIGTERM
> Noee. Here it works immediately.
> 
> Can you try with a fresh server from the distribution, with the example 
> elogd.cfg, to see if there is any difference?
> 
> The killing is handled in the funciton ctrlc_handler(), which sets _abort = 
> TRUE. This  is checked in line 16195, just after the select(), and the main 
> loop is exited. The select finishes after one second, although I believe 
> that the kill signal also terminates the select prematurely. The kill 
> command and a Ctrl-C keystroke should work the same way, they both generate 
> a SIGTERM or SIGINT signal.

elogd does not exit if there is an 'unprocessed' HUP.  So when you do 

kill -HUP <pid>
kill <pid> 

elogd will only exit after it was accessed.
  697   Wed Sep 8 23:03:36 2004 Reply Heiko Scheith.scheit@mpi-hd.mpg.deBug reportLinux2.5.0Re: elogd does not exit on SIGTERM
> > elogd does not exit if there is an 'unprocessed' HUP.  So when you do 
> > 
> > kill -HUP <pid>
> > kill <pid> 
> > 
> > elogd will only exit after it was accessed.
> 
> Can you please tell me how to reproduce this problem?
> 
> Even if I do a
> 
> kill -HUP <pid>; kill <pid>
> 
> it works immediately when I start elogd manually in interactive mode (not as daemon).

Even though I can't test this right now, I assume you have to wait a little
so that elogd jumps out of the 'select()' statement between the kill
commands.  Try: 

kill -HUP <pid>; sleep 2; kill <pid>

(I think the 'select()' timeout was 1 second.?)
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