> > I upgraded from ver 2.5.5-2 to 2.5.8-2 and found that none of my preset text
> > worked any longer.  I struggled with it for several hours and then reverted
> > back to 2.5.5-2 and the preset text worked again.  I have attached my
> > elgd.cfg file for review.  Thanks in advance for your help...
> 
> Your config file really helped. You found a bug which happens only if one uses
> conditions with lowercase letters, so that's why nobody else saw it before. I
> fixed it and released V2.5.8-3

Thanks for the information.

ELOG is terrific!

Attributes = ..., Flag, ...
Options Flag = Yes{0}, No{1}

{0} ...

{1} ...

> I am very much interested in using elog as a shift logbook for SOLEIL
> accelerators.

Hey, elog made it to SOLEIL! You know, we run it here at the SLS...

> I tested most of the options. Every thing works well except the conditional
> attributs when French language is selected. In this case, I lost the
> selected list option in the Field Equipement.

There was indeed a bug which only happend when switching to French! Some
javascript code contained

confirm('Erreur: l'attribute .... ')

So the "'" in l'attribute finished the string and Javascript stopped working. I
changed the quotes to

confirm("Erreur: l'attribute .... ")

so it works now. The new version is under CVS.

- Stefan

Sure, it's always welcome. Just email it to me.

Thanks, the file will be contained in the next release.

From: http://elog.sourceforge.net/

Solaris

It was reported by Martin Huber that under Solaris 7 following command must 
be used to compile elog:

gcc -L/usr/lib/ -ldl -lresolv -lm -ldl -lnsl -lsocket elogd.c -o elogd

It was also reported that the keep-alive mechanism is not working under some 
Solaris systems, so you need to start the elogd server with the "-k" flag to 
turn keep-alives off. 



Yep... does the job.
(even with 2.2.2 under Sol 8)

> 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.

> > 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);
$