elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Darren Hollinrake on Fri Aug 19 19:39:50 2016
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I was setting of a local test copy of my logbooks on my Windows 7 PC to begin testing automation of submissions without spamming the live logbooks. While trying to make entries from the command line I get an error that I am missing a required attribute. I have multiple attributes that have spaces in them an the verbose output indicates that the space in the name is being changed to an underscore. Is this the expected behavior or a bug when submitting to the elog client in Windows?
Command being entered:
| Quote: | C:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG>elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 443 -s -l "Oceana Logbook" -u j
ohn.smith john.smith -v -n 0 -a Platform=LSOT -a "Start Time"="Fri, 19 Aug 2016
12:58:01 -0500" -a "Author=John Smith" -a "Device=2H111-1" -a "Action Type"=Mai
ntenance -a "Maint Type"=Unscheduled -a "System=Device" -a "Downtime=No" -a "Man
Hours"=1.0 -a MAF="" -a "Lost Time"="" -m "testing"
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You can see where I have multiple attributes with spaces. Below you see where the name shows an underscore instead of a space.
| Quote: | Successfully connected to host 127.0.0.1, port 443
Request sent to host:
POST /Oceana+Logbook/ HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------22C602B76
C41
Host: 127.0.0.1:443
User-Agent: ELOG
Content-Length: 1790
Content sent to host:
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cmd"
Submit
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="unm"
john.smith
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="upwd"
JUl77l/.kXYBzfoOZpsy.URRZEZpg2SHZNZIum6Rh/5
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="exp"
Oceana Logbook
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="encoding"
ELCode
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Platform"
LSOT
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Start_Time"
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:58:01 -0500
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Author"
Bruce Slack
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Device"
2H111-1
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Action_Type"
Maintenance
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Maint_Type"
Unscheduled
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="System"
Device
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Downtime"
No
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Man_Hours"
1.0
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="MAF"
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Lost_Time"
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Text"
testing 123
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Response received:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: ELOG HTTP 3.1.1-3f311c5
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Connection: Close
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<title>ELOG error</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="elog.css">
</head>
<body><center>
<table class="dlgframe" width="50%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"<tr><td class
="errormsg"><i>Error: Attribute <b>Start Time</b> not supplied.</i><p>
Please go back and enter the <b>Start Time</b> field.
</td></tr>
<tr><td class="errormsg"><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.write("<button type=button onClick=history.back()>Back</button>");
</script>
<noscript>
Please use your browser's back button to go back
</noscript>
</td></tr>
</table>
</center></body></html>
Error: Missing required attribute "Start Time"
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Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Rudy Taraschi on Fri Aug 19 22:43:21 2016
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| Try commenting out the Required Attributes line in your elogd.cfg file before submitting. I think it's a bug but this work-around gets around it. |
Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Darren Hollinrake on Thu Aug 25 18:32:13 2016
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Thanks for the response. You are indeed correct that the issue disappears when I comment out my required attributes line. If I just remove my "Start Time" attribute, all the other attributes work as well.
| Rudy Taraschi wrote: | | Try commenting out the Required Attributes line in your elogd.cfg file before submitting. I think it's a bug but this work-around gets around it. |
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Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Rudy Taraschi on Thu Aug 25 18:45:48 2016
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| Darren Hollinrake wrote: | | Thanks for the response. You are indeed correct that the issue disappears when I comment out my required attributes line. If I just remove my "Start Time" attribute, all the other attributes work as well. |
I used to just comment out that one field in Required Attributes as well, but it was a pain to edit the CFG file, so I took the lazy approach and just commented out the whole line - less typing  |
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Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Darren Hollinrake on Thu Aug 25 19:04:11 2016
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Agreed, I just wanted to clarify for anyone else though that the issue seems to be centered on my "Start Time" attribute which is a datetime field. All the other attributes (with spaces) allowed submission of the entry so long as the "Start Time" attribute wasn't set to required. That appears to be the one with the actual issue. Giving a valid epoch time when that field isn't required allows the field to be populated correctly. However, if the "Start Time" attribute is required (same epoch time used when it wasn't a required field), I again receive the error that the "Start Time" attribute is missing.
| Rudy Taraschi wrote: |
| Darren Hollinrake wrote: | | Thanks for the response. You are indeed correct that the issue disappears when I comment out my required attributes line. If I just remove my "Start Time" attribute, all the other attributes work as well. |
I used to just comment out that one field in Required Attributes as well, but it was a pain to edit the CFG file, so I took the lazy approach and just commented out the whole line - less typing |
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Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Andreas Luedeke on Sat Aug 20 12:17:10 2016
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If the "Start Time" attribute is of the type "datetime", then you cannot assign a date string to it.
Instead you'll have to assign the seconds of the epoch.
Try assigning a "0", that should be the 1st of January 1970.
I hope that helps,
Andreas
| Darren Hollinrake wrote: | I was setting of a local test copy of my logbooks on my Windows 7 PC to begin testing automation of submissions without spamming the live logbooks. While trying to make entries from the command line I get an error that I am missing a required attribute. I have multiple attributes that have spaces in them an the verbose output indicates that the space in the name is being changed to an underscore. Is this the expected behavior or a bug when submitting to the elog client in Windows?
Command being entered:
| Quote: | C:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG>elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 443 -s -l "Oceana Logbook" -u j
ohn.smith john.smith -v -n 0 -a Platform=LSOT -a "Start Time"="Fri, 19 Aug 2016
12:58:01 -0500" -a "Author=John Smith" -a "Device=2H111-1" -a "Action Type"=Mai
ntenance -a "Maint Type"=Unscheduled -a "System=Device" -a "Downtime=No" -a "Man
Hours"=1.0 -a MAF="" -a "Lost Time"="" -m "testing"
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You can see where I have multiple attributes with spaces. Below you see where the name shows an underscore instead of a space.
| Quote: | Successfully connected to host 127.0.0.1, port 443
Request sent to host:
POST /Oceana+Logbook/ HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------22C602B76
C41
Host: 127.0.0.1:443
User-Agent: ELOG
Content-Length: 1790
Content sent to host:
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cmd"
Submit
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="unm"
john.smith
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="upwd"
JUl77l/.kXYBzfoOZpsy.URRZEZpg2SHZNZIum6Rh/5
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="exp"
Oceana Logbook
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="encoding"
ELCode
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Platform"
LSOT
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Start_Time"
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:58:01 -0500
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Author"
Bruce Slack
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Device"
2H111-1
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Action_Type"
Maintenance
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Maint_Type"
Unscheduled
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="System"
Device
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Downtime"
No
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Man_Hours"
1.0
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="MAF"
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Lost_Time"
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Text"
testing 123
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Response received:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: ELOG HTTP 3.1.1-3f311c5
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Connection: Close
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<title>ELOG error</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="elog.css">
</head>
<body><center>
<table class="dlgframe" width="50%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"<tr><td class
="errormsg"><i>Error: Attribute <b>Start Time</b> not supplied.</i><p>
Please go back and enter the <b>Start Time</b> field.
</td></tr>
<tr><td class="errormsg"><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.write("<button type=button onClick=history.back()>Back</button>");
</script>
<noscript>
Please use your browser's back button to go back
</noscript>
</td></tr>
</table>
</center></body></html>
Error: Missing required attribute "Start Time"
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Re: elog client cmd line submission of attributes with spaces., posted by Darren Hollinrake on Thu Aug 25 18:18:57 2016
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Thanks for the reply. You're correct that the "Start Time" attribute is a datetime field. I tried your suggestion and placed "0" for that field but it still returns the same error: Error: Missing required attribute "Start Time"
I tested after commenting out the required attribute line and the command was accepted. However, the datetime field does not display a valid date/time just a dash "-". It was a dash with both the "0" set and my previous format as well.
I did a bit more troubleshooting and if I removed the "Start Time" attribute from the list of required attributes, then my command would also be accepted. It was only choking on the datetime field as it appears I'm supplying it an invalid value. I just gave it a current epoch time and it functioned normally when a datetime attribute is not required. If I require my "Start Time" attribute and give it a valid epoch time (1472144295), it again throws the error that I'm missing a required attribute.
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: | If the "Start Time" attribute is of the type "datetime", then you cannot assign a date string to it.
Instead you'll have to assign the seconds of the epoch.
Try assigning a "0", that should be the 1st of January 1970.
I hope that helps,
Andreas
| Darren Hollinrake wrote: | I was setting of a local test copy of my logbooks on my Windows 7 PC to begin testing automation of submissions without spamming the live logbooks. While trying to make entries from the command line I get an error that I am missing a required attribute. I have multiple attributes that have spaces in them an the verbose output indicates that the space in the name is being changed to an underscore. Is this the expected behavior or a bug when submitting to the elog client in Windows?
Command being entered:
| Quote: | C:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG>elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 443 -s -l "Oceana Logbook" -u j
ohn.smith john.smith -v -n 0 -a Platform=LSOT -a "Start Time"="Fri, 19 Aug 2016
12:58:01 -0500" -a "Author=John Smith" -a "Device=2H111-1" -a "Action Type"=Mai
ntenance -a "Maint Type"=Unscheduled -a "System=Device" -a "Downtime=No" -a "Man
Hours"=1.0 -a MAF="" -a "Lost Time"="" -m "testing"
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You can see where I have multiple attributes with spaces. Below you see where the name shows an underscore instead of a space.
| Quote: | Successfully connected to host 127.0.0.1, port 443
Request sent to host:
POST /Oceana+Logbook/ HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------22C602B76
C41
Host: 127.0.0.1:443
User-Agent: ELOG
Content-Length: 1790
Content sent to host:
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="cmd"
Submit
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="unm"
john.smith
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="upwd"
JUl77l/.kXYBzfoOZpsy.URRZEZpg2SHZNZIum6Rh/5
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="exp"
Oceana Logbook
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="encoding"
ELCode
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Platform"
LSOT
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Start_Time"
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:58:01 -0500
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Author"
Bruce Slack
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Device"
2H111-1
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Action_Type"
Maintenance
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Maint_Type"
Unscheduled
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="System"
Device
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Downtime"
No
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Man_Hours"
1.0
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="MAF"
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Lost_Time"
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Text"
testing 123
---------------------------22C602B76C41
Response received:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: ELOG HTTP 3.1.1-3f311c5
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Connection: Close
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<title>ELOG error</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="elog.css">
</head>
<body><center>
<table class="dlgframe" width="50%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"<tr><td class
="errormsg"><i>Error: Attribute <b>Start Time</b> not supplied.</i><p>
Please go back and enter the <b>Start Time</b> field.
</td></tr>
<tr><td class="errormsg"><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.write("<button type=button onClick=history.back()>Back</button>");
</script>
<noscript>
Please use your browser's back button to go back
</noscript>
</td></tr>
</table>
</center></body></html>
Error: Missing required attribute "Start Time"
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Quick Filter not searching on Enter, posted by Alan Grant on Wed Aug 10 16:46:09 2016
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With all of our instances of Elog where we have Quick Filters enabled, any filter that we input characters into does not search the server when we press enter (there is no "Search" button). Interestingly, it will only search when we click anywhere on a blank area of the Elog interface. Is that the intended procedure for searching? |
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Re: Quick Filter not searching on Enter, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Thu Aug 11 09:18:27 2016
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I've checked for this forum logbook, and pressing "enter" while having focus in the quickfilter text field does initiate the search. Does it work for you with this logbook?
| Alan Grant wrote: |
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With all of our instances of Elog where we have Quick Filters enabled, any filter that we input characters into does not search the server when we press enter (there is no "Search" button). Interestingly, it will only search when we click anywhere on a blank area of the Elog interface. Is that the intended procedure for searching?
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Re: Quick Filter not searching on Enter, posted by Alan Grant on Thu Aug 11 16:40:47 2016
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Yes it works fine in this forum. I also discovered my problem is resolved using Chrome. I'll dig into browser and let you know when I find something.
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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I've checked for this forum logbook, and pressing "enter" while having focus in the quickfilter text field does initiate the search. Does it work for you with this logbook?
| Alan Grant wrote: |
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With all of our instances of Elog where we have Quick Filters enabled, any filter that we input characters into does not search the server when we press enter (there is no "Search" button). Interestingly, it will only search when we click anywhere on a blank area of the Elog interface. Is that the intended procedure for searching?
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Re: Quick Filter not searching on Enter, posted by Alan Grant on Thu Aug 11 17:09:47 2016
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Found the problem. I needed to turn on Compatibility View in IE for the site. Regards.
| Alan Grant wrote: |
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Yes it works fine in this forum. I also discovered my problem is resolved using Chrome. I'll dig into browser and let you know when I find something.
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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I've checked for this forum logbook, and pressing "enter" while having focus in the quickfilter text field does initiate the search. Does it work for you with this logbook?
| Alan Grant wrote: |
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With all of our instances of Elog where we have Quick Filters enabled, any filter that we input characters into does not search the server when we press enter (there is no "Search" button). Interestingly, it will only search when we click anywhere on a blank area of the Elog interface. Is that the intended procedure for searching?
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Quick Filter not searching, posted by Alan Grant on Wed Aug 10 15:40:49 2016
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With all of our instances of Elog where we have Quick Filters enabled, any filter that we input characters into does not search the server when we press enter (there is no "Search" button). Interestingly, it will only search when we click anywhere on a blank area of the Elog interface. Is that the intended procedure for searching? |
Sample of actual elog Config with URL in SSL, posted by Dawang on Mon Dec 14 04:42:04 2015
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HI Guys,
Can you please give me an idea how will I write in the config. I want my elog will be accessed via internet. Though there's a tutorial / guideline, I need an actual config file for me to easily grasp how the URL = xxx should be write. Do my port should be Port = 433 and SSL=1?
Thanks,
Raymund |
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Re: Sample of actual elog Config with URL in SSL, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Dec 16 09:56:09 2015
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You normally don't need to specify "URL = xxx" at all. It is only needed if you work with a Proxy that changes the normal ELOG URL. And yes, you'll need "Port = 433" and "SSL =1".
And elogd must be compiled with USE_SSL=1, maybe that's your problem?
In addition you should buy a valid SSL certificate. Otherwise every user needs to acknowledge an exception for your invalid SSL certificate.
Cheers, Andreas
| Dawang wrote: |
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HI Guys,
Can you please give me an idea how will I write in the config. I want my elog will be accessed via internet. Though there's a tutorial / guideline, I need an actual config file for me to easily grasp how the URL = xxx should be write. Do my port should be Port = 433 and SSL=1?
Thanks,
Raymund
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Re: Sample of actual elog Config with URL in SSL, posted by Chris Smyth on Thu Aug 4 16:40:14 2016
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how do I compile elogd with USE_SSL=1?
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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You normally don't need to specify "URL = xxx" at all. It is only needed if you work with a Proxy that changes the normal ELOG URL. And yes, you'll need "Port = 433" and "SSL =1".
And elogd must be compiled with USE_SSL=1, maybe that's your problem?
In addition you should buy a valid SSL certificate. Otherwise every user needs to acknowledge an exception for your invalid SSL certificate.
Cheers, Andreas
| Dawang wrote: |
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HI Guys,
Can you please give me an idea how will I write in the config. I want my elog will be accessed via internet. Though there's a tutorial / guideline, I need an actual config file for me to easily grasp how the URL = xxx should be write. Do my port should be Port = 433 and SSL=1?
Thanks,
Raymund
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Re: Sample of actual elog Config with URL in SSL, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Thu Aug 4 21:53:37 2016
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Very easy: uncomment the line USE_SSL=1 in the Makefile and then compile.
You'll need of course a gcc compiler on your Windows system, a makefile environment, SSL libraries, etc.. If you don't have that: ask you local administrator.
Cheers, Andreas
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how do I compile elogd with USE_SSL=1?
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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You normally don't need to specify "URL = xxx" at all. It is only needed if you work with a Proxy that changes the normal ELOG URL. And yes, you'll need "Port = 433" and "SSL =1".
And elogd must be compiled with USE_SSL=1, maybe that's your problem?
In addition you should buy a valid SSL certificate. Otherwise every user needs to acknowledge an exception for your invalid SSL certificate.
Cheers, Andreas
| Dawang wrote: |
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HI Guys,
Can you please give me an idea how will I write in the config. I want my elog will be accessed via internet. Though there's a tutorial / guideline, I need an actual config file for me to easily grasp how the URL = xxx should be write. Do my port should be Port = 433 and SSL=1?
Thanks,
Raymund
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Re: Sample of actual elog Config with URL in SSL, posted by Chris Smyth on Tue Aug 9 04:23:07 2016
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By the Makefile i belive you are refering to the elogd.cfg? if not what file do I have use?
I have added
port = 443
ssl = 1
Without sucess.
I then tried
port = 443
use_ssl = 1
still no sucess.
I cant find any file that has "#USE_SSL =1" that I can uncomment. I am using an older version of ELOG (ELOG278-2) reading all the documentation I cant seem to figure it out.
I also configured elogd to listen on port 443
Opened a CMD window and entered >elogd -p 443
Says listening on port 443 but still not working.
On the most curent version of ELOG 3.1.0 I just modify the elogd.cfg added ssl = 1 and change the port to 443 and everthing works as advertised. I do the same on this version and I cant get it working. I could really use some help. Thanks for the fast response.
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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Very easy: uncomment the line USE_SSL=1 in the Makefile and then compile.
You'll need of course a gcc compiler on your Windows system, a makefile environment, SSL libraries, etc.. If you don't have that: ask you local administrator.
Cheers, Andreas
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how do I compile elogd with USE_SSL=1?
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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You normally don't need to specify "URL = xxx" at all. It is only needed if you work with a Proxy that changes the normal ELOG URL. And yes, you'll need "Port = 433" and "SSL =1".
And elogd must be compiled with USE_SSL=1, maybe that's your problem?
In addition you should buy a valid SSL certificate. Otherwise every user needs to acknowledge an exception for your invalid SSL certificate.
Cheers, Andreas
| Dawang wrote: |
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HI Guys,
Can you please give me an idea how will I write in the config. I want my elog will be accessed via internet. Though there's a tutorial / guideline, I need an actual config file for me to easily grasp how the URL = xxx should be write. Do my port should be Port = 433 and SSL=1?
Thanks,
Raymund
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Re: Sample of actual elog Config with URL in SSL, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Tue Aug 9 14:01:04 2016
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You need to download the source file package of ELOG and compile it. If you don't know what a Makefile is, then it is likely futile for you to attempt to compile ELOG.
Or in other words: you cannot use SSL.
| Chris Smyth wrote: |
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By the Makefile i belive you are refering to the elogd.cfg? if not what file do I have use?
I have added
port = 443
ssl = 1
Without sucess.
I then tried
port = 443
use_ssl = 1
still no sucess.
I cant find any file that has "#USE_SSL =1" that I can uncomment. I am using an older version of ELOG (ELOG278-2) reading all the documentation I cant seem to figure it out.
I also configured elogd to listen on port 443
Opened a CMD window and entered >elogd -p 443
Says listening on port 443 but still not working.
On the most curent version of ELOG 3.1.0 I just modify the elogd.cfg added ssl = 1 and change the port to 443 and everthing works as advertised. I do the same on this version and I cant get it working. I could really use some help. Thanks for the fast response.
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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Very easy: uncomment the line USE_SSL=1 in the Makefile and then compile.
You'll need of course a gcc compiler on your Windows system, a makefile environment, SSL libraries, etc.. If you don't have that: ask you local administrator.
Cheers, Andreas
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how do I compile elogd with USE_SSL=1?
| Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
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You normally don't need to specify "URL = xxx" at all. It is only needed if you work with a Proxy that changes the normal ELOG URL. And yes, you'll need "Port = 433" and "SSL =1".
And elogd must be compiled with USE_SSL=1, maybe that's your problem?
In addition you should buy a valid SSL certificate. Otherwise every user needs to acknowledge an exception for your invalid SSL certificate.
Cheers, Andreas
| Dawang wrote: |
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HI Guys,
Can you please give me an idea how will I write in the config. I want my elog will be accessed via internet. Though there's a tutorial / guideline, I need an actual config file for me to easily grasp how the URL = xxx should be write. Do my port should be Port = 433 and SSL=1?
Thanks,
Raymund
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Re: Sample of actual elog Config with URL in SSL, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Tue Aug 9 14:08:20 2016
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You've already named your solution: drop the very old ELOG version and download the new one. Obviously it was compiled with USE_SSL and you can use it right away.
Since you probably don't even have the source files of the old version, you'll have no chance to make it work with that. Just use ELOG 3.1.0.
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By the Makefile i belive you are refering to the elogd.cfg? if not what file do I have use?
I have added
port = 443
ssl = 1
Without sucess.
I then tried
port = 443
use_ssl = 1
still no sucess.
I cant find any file that has "#USE_SSL =1" that I can uncomment. I am using an older version of ELOG (ELOG278-2) reading all the documentation I cant seem to figure it out.
I also configured elogd to listen on port 443
Opened a CMD window and entered >elogd -p 443
Says listening on port 443 but still not working.
On the most curent version of ELOG 3.1.0 I just modify the elogd.cfg added ssl = 1 and change the port to 443 and everthing works as advertised. I do the same on this version and I cant get it working. I could really use some help. Thanks for the fast response.
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Very easy: uncomment the line USE_SSL=1 in the Makefile and then compile.
You'll need of course a gcc compiler on your Windows system, a makefile environment, SSL libraries, etc.. If you don't have that: ask you local administrator.
Cheers, Andreas
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how do I compile elogd with USE_SSL=1?
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You normally don't need to specify "URL = xxx" at all. It is only needed if you work with a Proxy that changes the normal ELOG URL. And yes, you'll need "Port = 433" and "SSL =1".
And elogd must be compiled with USE_SSL=1, maybe that's your problem?
In addition you should buy a valid SSL certificate. Otherwise every user needs to acknowledge an exception for your invalid SSL certificate.
Cheers, Andreas
| Dawang wrote: |
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HI Guys,
Can you please give me an idea how will I write in the config. I want my elog will be accessed via internet. Though there's a tutorial / guideline, I need an actual config file for me to easily grasp how the URL = xxx should be write. Do my port should be Port = 433 and SSL=1?
Thanks,
Raymund
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SSL, posted by Chris Smyth on Thu Aug 4 14:28:18 2016
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How do I enable SSL with port 443 in version ELOG V2.7.8-2294 and rename from localhost?
Server is running Windows 2008
We got http://servername:8080 to work and on the network just fine..
but everytime we try to change the port to 443 in global we cant get anything with https:// working
port = 443
ssl = 1
url = https://servername
how do you customize the elog.exe or elogd for windows enviorment to listen on port 443 with specific hostname. please give an example.
Thanks...
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inserting pictures into a post, posted by d. nettles on Wed Jul 17 23:46:01 2002
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does elog have a way of inserting pictures into a post other than including
them as an attachment? i can put a picture in using html text, but this
method only works if the picture is stored on the local server. anyone
placing a post from a remote machine cannot include a picture off of their
machine.
any help?
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Re: inserting pictures into a post, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Jul 23 09:21:38 2002
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> does elog have a way of inserting pictures into a post other than
including
> them as an attachment? i can put a picture in using html text, but
this
> method only works if the picture is stored on the local server. anyone
> placing a post from a remote machine cannot include a picture off of
their
> machine.
> any help?
> thanks.
Right now it is not possible to easily include pictures into the message
body, but I put it on the wishlist. Of course you can always refer to
external pictures if you submit your text as HTML and put the proper tags
there like this one:
and you can even scale them like
but of course this requires to have that image stored somewhere else. I
will
probably add a feature like
att:name.gif
which will reference a picture from the attachment, and will be converted
to
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Re: inserting pictures into a post, posted by JD on Fri Jul 22 09:58:47 2016
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I know this thread is realy old. Anyways I would like to give a +1 on this request. As a workaround I currently wrote a small PHP Image Hosting/Upload Script and embedded a link to it in the Menue.
On that page the user uploads the image and gets a link which he/she can embedd using the  button... Easy, but a bit to complicated for some users ;)
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
> does elog have a way of inserting pictures into a post other than including
> them as an attachment? i can put a picture in using html text, but this
> method only works if the picture is stored on the local server. anyone
> placing a post from a remote machine cannot include a picture off of their
> machine.
> any help?
> thanks.
Right now it is not possible to easily include pictures into the message body, but I put it on the wishlist. Of course you can always refer to external pictures if you submit your text as HTML and put the proper tags there like this one:
and you can even scale them like
but of course this requires to have that image stored somewhere else. I will probably add a feature like
att:name.gif
which will reference a picture from the attachment, and will be converted to the full picture name after submitting that message.
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Re: inserting pictures into a post, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Jul 22 10:08:13 2016 
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I don't know if you realized, but that (veeeeery old) wish has been implemented about five years ago or so. Now you can instert pictures into the body like this:
Best,
Stefan
| JD wrote: |
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I know this thread is realy old. Anyways I would like to give a +1 on this request. As a workaround I currently wrote a small PHP Image Hosting/Upload Script and embedded a link to it in the Menue.
On that page the user uploads the image and gets a link which he/she can embedd using the button... Easy, but a bit to complicated for some users ;)
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
> does elog have a way of inserting pictures into a post other than including
> them as an attachment? i can put a picture in using html text, but this
> method only works if the picture is stored on the local server. anyone
> placing a post from a remote machine cannot include a picture off of their
> machine.
> any help?
> thanks.
Right now it is not possible to easily include pictures into the message body, but I put it on the wishlist. Of course you can always refer to external pictures if you submit your text as HTML and put the proper tags there like this one:
and you can even scale them like
but of course this requires to have that image stored somewhere else. I will probably add a feature like
att:name.gif
which will reference a picture from the attachment, and will be converted to the full picture name after submitting that message.
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Re: inserting pictures into a post, posted by JD on Fri Jul 22 10:27:09 2016
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Wow, now me managed it as well ;).. We uploaded/droped the image in the attatchment and not into the text area. Thank you!
Cheers
Jonathan
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I don't know if you realized, but that (veeeeery old) wish has been implemented about five years ago or so. Now you can instert pictures into the body like this:
Best,
Stefan
| JD wrote: |
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I know this thread is realy old. Anyways I would like to give a +1 on this request. As a workaround I currently wrote a small PHP Image Hosting/Upload Script and embedded a link to it in the Menue.
On that page the user uploads the image and gets a link which he/she can embedd using the button... Easy, but a bit to complicated for some users ;)
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
> does elog have a way of inserting pictures into a post other than including
> them as an attachment? i can put a picture in using html text, but this
> method only works if the picture is stored on the local server. anyone
> placing a post from a remote machine cannot include a picture off of their
> machine.
> any help?
> thanks.
Right now it is not possible to easily include pictures into the message body, but I put it on the wishlist. Of course you can always refer to external pictures if you submit your text as HTML and put the proper tags there like this one:
and you can even scale them like
but of course this requires to have that image stored somewhere else. I will probably add a feature like
att:name.gif
which will reference a picture from the attachment, and will be converted to the full picture name after submitting that message.
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Re: inserting pictures into a post, posted by Antonio Bulgheroni on Fri Jul 22 13:56:06 2016
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I have just made a fresh installation of ELOG 3.1.1 on a windows machine and unfortunately it is not working. If I try to insert a picture with the image button, the dialog complains that the image url is missing. If I drag-and-drop the picture on the edit area, it gets attached but not added as picture.
I tried already on two different computer and on the basic elog configuration.
Can you crosscheck it on your side on a win pc?
Thanks 
antonio
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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I don't know if you realized, but that (veeeeery old) wish has been implemented about five years ago or so. Now you can instert pictures into the body like this:
Best,
Stefan
| JD wrote: |
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I know this thread is realy old. Anyways I would like to give a +1 on this request. As a workaround I currently wrote a small PHP Image Hosting/Upload Script and embedded a link to it in the Menue.
On that page the user uploads the image and gets a link which he/she can embedd using the button... Easy, but a bit to complicated for some users ;)
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
> does elog have a way of inserting pictures into a post other than including
> them as an attachment? i can put a picture in using html text, but this
> method only works if the picture is stored on the local server. anyone
> placing a post from a remote machine cannot include a picture off of their
> machine.
> any help?
> thanks.
Right now it is not possible to easily include pictures into the message body, but I put it on the wishlist. Of course you can always refer to external pictures if you submit your text as HTML and put the proper tags there like this one:
and you can even scale them like
but of course this requires to have that image stored somewhere else. I will probably add a feature like
att:name.gif
which will reference a picture from the attachment, and will be converted to the full picture name after submitting that message.
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Different logbook files when running elogd as admin or normal user, posted by Antonio Bulgheroni on Thu Jul 21 07:44:04 2016
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Dear all, I have a problem with my window elog installation (2.9.2) and I would like to ask your help for solving it.
I'm using elog on my lab computer for a single user installation, so something very simple. It was running smoothly for many months using the automatic window service (i.e. elogd was started automatically at boot). I need to add that the service is started as the local administrator, while my user has no administrative rights. ELOG is installed in the standard location C:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG\ with the logbook folder inside and this is actually accessible only for admins.
On 8/04/2016, elogd crashed while I was saving an edited message. Then instead of restarting the service or rebooting the PC, I was just starting elogd manually (as me not as admin). It worked for many weeks. And now comes the problem: at the next reboot the elogd service came up automatically but all the new records I added in the logbook since I re-started manually are not there. Indeed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG\logbooks the latest entry is 160408a.txt. But if I stop the service and restart elogd manually (as me not as admin), then I can see in the logbook all the new entries.
My questions is where the ascii files corresponding to the new entries? They must be saved somewhere, maybe in some temporary folder. I want to copy them back and keep them in the backup to avoid unpleasant surprise.
Thanks in advance for your help,
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Re: Different logbook files when running elogd as admin or normal user, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Jul 21 08:08:07 2016
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I don't know why elogd uses different logbook directories depending on the user. Maybe you start it in different directories, or one user cannot read the config file and falls back to some default. Anyhow, you can start elogd interactively wit the -v flag which tells you which logbook files are parsed. There are no cache files or similar, everything is stored in Yymmdda.log files, you just have to search for them.
| Antonio Bulgheroni wrote: |
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Dear all, I have a problem with my window elog installation (2.9.2) and I would like to ask your help for solving it.
I'm using elog on my lab computer for a single user installation, so something very simple. It was running smoothly for many months using the automatic window service (i.e. elogd was started automatically at boot). I need to add that the service is started as the local administrator, while my user has no administrative rights. ELOG is installed in the standard location C:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG\ with the logbook folder inside and this is actually accessible only for admins.
On 8/04/2016, elogd crashed while I was saving an edited message. Then instead of restarting the service or rebooting the PC, I was just starting elogd manually (as me not as admin). It worked for many weeks. And now comes the problem: at the next reboot the elogd service came up automatically but all the new records I added in the logbook since I re-started manually are not there. Indeed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG\logbooks the latest entry is 160408a.txt. But if I stop the service and restart elogd manually (as me not as admin), then I can see in the logbook all the new entries.
My questions is where the ascii files corresponding to the new entries? They must be saved somewhere, maybe in some temporary folder. I want to copy them back and keep them in the backup to avoid unpleasant surprise.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Antonio
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Re: Different logbook files when running elogd as admin or normal user, posted by Antonio Bulgheroni on Thu Jul 21 09:37:47 2016
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So I found the my log files, but this issue should probably be documented.
When running as admin my logbook files are where they should (C:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG\logbooks)
When running as local user (with no admin rights), elogd has no writing access to the logbooks directory. So it falls back to use C:\Users\[MyUserName]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\ELOG\logbooks
In both cases elogd -v is not helping because it says:
elogd 2.9.2 built Feb 20 2013, 09:19:10 revision 2475
Config file : c:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG\elogd.cfg
Resource dir : c:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG
Logbook dir : c:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG\logbooks\
FCKedit detected
Indexing logbook "sample" in "logbooks\sample\" ...
that is not true for the local user.
Thanks again for your help,
Antonio
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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I don't know why elogd uses different logbook directories depending on the user. Maybe you start it in different directories, or one user cannot read the config file and falls back to some default. Anyhow, you can start elogd interactively wit the -v flag which tells you which logbook files are parsed. There are no cache files or similar, everything is stored in Yymmdda.log files, you just have to search for them.
| Antonio Bulgheroni wrote: |
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Dear all, I have a problem with my window elog installation (2.9.2) and I would like to ask your help for solving it.
I'm using elog on my lab computer for a single user installation, so something very simple. It was running smoothly for many months using the automatic window service (i.e. elogd was started automatically at boot). I need to add that the service is started as the local administrator, while my user has no administrative rights. ELOG is installed in the standard location C:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG\ with the logbook folder inside and this is actually accessible only for admins.
On 8/04/2016, elogd crashed while I was saving an edited message. Then instead of restarting the service or rebooting the PC, I was just starting elogd manually (as me not as admin). It worked for many weeks. And now comes the problem: at the next reboot the elogd service came up automatically but all the new records I added in the logbook since I re-started manually are not there. Indeed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\ELOG\logbooks the latest entry is 160408a.txt. But if I stop the service and restart elogd manually (as me not as admin), then I can see in the logbook all the new entries.
My questions is where the ascii files corresponding to the new entries? They must be saved somewhere, maybe in some temporary folder. I want to copy them back and keep them in the backup to avoid unpleasant surprise.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Antonio
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string length limit in url tag, posted by Don on Wed Jul 20 16:03:24 2016
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What is the string length limit in url tag and how to increase it?
For example,
[url=http://example.com?<text_string>]click here[/url]
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Re: string length limit in url tag, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Thu Jul 21 06:15:44 2016
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Several strings in ELOG are limited to 256 chars. It is likely the limit for URLs, too.
The magic number "256" appears 285 times in the elogd.c file.
It is probaly easier if you compress long URLs with goo.gl
Cheers, Andreas
| Don wrote: |
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What is the string length limit in url tag and how to increase it?
For example,
[url=http://example.com?<text_string>]click here[/url]
When I provide very long <text_string>, it was truncated and showed partial link only.
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