Guest menu commands not working as advertisted, posted by Greg Christian on Tue Jun 14 16:50:41 2016
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Hello,
I am trying to set up my elog to have read-only guest access and require registration/password for users to be able to post to the elog. I've tried following the instructions here: https://midas.psi.ch/elog/faq.html#6, i.e. putting the following lines under the [global] section of my elogd.cfg file:
Menu commands = List, New, Edit, Reply, Duplicate, Find, Config, Logout, Help
Guest menu commands = List, Find, Login, Help
When I do this, I do get guest acccess, however the menu items are
New | Find | Select | Import | Config | Logout | Last day | Help
rather than the List, Find, Login, Help I would expect. Also, if I click on Logout, it simply does nothing, which means there's now no way to log in as a registered user.
Any thoughts on what might be wrong?
Thanks,
Greg |
Re: Guest menu commands not working as advertisted, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Jun 14 17:01:04 2016
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There are two menus, one for the list display, and one for the individual entry display. To change the first, you need
List menu commands = ...
Guest list menu commands = ...
| Greg Christian wrote: |
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Hello,
I am trying to set up my elog to have read-only guest access and require registration/password for users to be able to post to the elog. I've tried following the instructions here: https://midas.psi.ch/elog/faq.html#6, i.e. putting the following lines under the [global] section of my elogd.cfg file:
Menu commands = List, New, Edit, Reply, Duplicate, Find, Config, Logout, Help
Guest menu commands = List, Find, Login, Help
When I do this, I do get guest acccess, however the menu items are
New | Find | Select | Import | Config | Logout | Last day | Help
rather than the List, Find, Login, Help I would expect. Also, if I click on Logout, it simply does nothing, which means there's now no way to log in as a registered user.
Any thoughts on what might be wrong?
Thanks,
Greg
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Re: Guest menu commands not working as advertisted, posted by Greg Christian on Tue Jun 14 18:32:03 2016
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Got it. Thanks!
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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There are two menus, one for the list display, and one for the individual entry display. To change the first, you need
List menu commands = ...
Guest list menu commands = ...
| Greg Christian wrote: |
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Hello,
I am trying to set up my elog to have read-only guest access and require registration/password for users to be able to post to the elog. I've tried following the instructions here: https://midas.psi.ch/elog/faq.html#6, i.e. putting the following lines under the [global] section of my elogd.cfg file:
Menu commands = List, New, Edit, Reply, Duplicate, Find, Config, Logout, Help
Guest menu commands = List, Find, Login, Help
When I do this, I do get guest acccess, however the menu items are
New | Find | Select | Import | Config | Logout | Last day | Help
rather than the List, Find, Login, Help I would expect. Also, if I click on Logout, it simply does nothing, which means there's now no way to log in as a registered user.
Any thoughts on what might be wrong?
Thanks,
Greg
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Re: Unable to set a custom logbook dir on Debian 8 from the repository package, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Jun 27 16:06:55 2016
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The debian version of elog is pretty old with quite a number of bugs fixed in meantime. Unfortunatlely the debig packase has not bee updated by the maintainers. So better download the current version from bitbucket and compile elogd yourself.
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Dear all
I installed elog from the current stable repository on Debian 8 (jessie)
The installation went on smoothly, I modified the configuration files of the Apache server as described in the manual to use the elog in parallel with an existing webserver and then I tested. The demo logbook loads fine and I see that elog created a folder for the logbook in /var/lib/elog/logbooks, which is the directory specified by default in the /etc/init.d/elog file.
Then I modified the /etc/elog.conf file, added the following lines in the global section (custompath is a local path)
Resource dir = /<custompath>/elog/res
Logbook dir = /<custompath>/elog/logbooks
And I created a new logbook.
After restarting the elog service the second database is correctly created but both of them are still stored in /var/lib/elog/logbooks so it seems the global configurations in the config file are overwritten.
How can I specify the custom folder so that the new logbooks are written there?
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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]
When I provide very long <text_string>, it was truncated and showed partial link only. |
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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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Wrong time in attachment "Uploaded ..." date, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Aug 31 10:31:19 2016 
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When an attachment is later added to an exisiting entry, we see that the string "Uploaded <date>" has the wrong
time: in our case it is one hour into the future.
I'm testing it now here in the forum.
I can reproduce it in this forum: the Uploaded time should have been 10:35, but it shows 11:35.
Cheers, Andreas |
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Re: error message "Command Config is not allowed" after registering, posted by Mark Bergman on Tue Sep 6 20:09:07 2016
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After registering, elog displays a page with the message:
Error: Command "Config" is not allowed for user ""
However, the registration is successful. This causes confusion, and results in users registering multiple times.
In the elogd.conf file, I have the directive:
Allow Config = bergman
Any suggestions?
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Well, 5 years after opening this issue, with no responses here, I finally got into the source code and fixed it.
The problem seems to be if eLog is configured to prohibit users (non-administrators) from the "Config" option...but on the initial self-registration, the code goes to the Config screen for the user anyway...resulting in the false error message.
So, I [badly] hacked eLog to fix that, add some debugging/log messages, and to correct a typo.
Attached is the patch against release 3.1.1-1. Try not to cringe too much at my code. :) |
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