We have always had issues with eLOG crashing intermittently...  I upgraded from Server 2003 to Server 2008 about a year ago to try to reduce the issues...  which really didn't help.

The service now seems to crash every week...  (getting worse)...  Is anyone seeing these issues in Windows servers?  Any suggestions??

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?

Hi all,

ELOG V3.0.0-21dc563

Our elogd dies alwways when searching for full text:

elogd: src/elogd.c:465: xrealloc: Assertion `*((unsigned int *) (temp + old_size)) == 0xdeadc0de' failed.
elogd: src/elogd.c:465: xrealloc: Assertion `*((unsigned int *) (temp + old_size)) == 0xdeadc0de' failed.

The only change we did was adding/editing entries.

Does anyone else encounter the same issue ?

I did not find any hint in release notes that this issue would be fixed in a later version

Please don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. Elog does a great job for us since years.

Christian

Hello,

i have config file elogd.cfg like below:

[Tom Yaht]

Theme = default

;Comment and Tittle
Comment = LogBook
Page title = Tom LogBook
List page title = Tom LogBook

;admin and user settings
admin user = tom
login user = tom, soc
login expiration = 2

Restrict edit time = 8
Attributes = Controllers, Event Date/Time, Site, Engineers, Type, Category, Subsystems, Subject, Distribution-Mail, EMail to

Moptions Distribution-Mail = Controllers, Engineers, Consultant Team, Manager

;Email settings
Email Distribution-Mail "Controllers" = ble@xxx.com, cor@xxx.com, nor@xxx.com
Email Distribution-Mail "Engineers" = blo@xxx.com, sur@xxx.com, ars@xxx.com
Email Distribution-Mail "Consultant Team" = bli@xxx.com, zam@xxx.com
Email Distribution-Mail "Manager" = bos@xxx.com
Email all = $EMail to
Use Email Subject = Tom Logbook - $Subject
Use Email Heading = New Tom Logbook entry
Use Email Heading edit = Tom Logbook has been updated

The Subject successfully displayed as i expected , but the email heading still use default heading "A new ELOG entry has been submitted" , while i want to changeit to be "New Tom Logbook entry" as i mention in Use Email Heading  above.

Could anybody help me.

Thank you

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

Hi, I have a logbook with attributes Tool1, Tool2, and Tool3.  When viewing a completed entry, what I want to do is see Tool2 or Tool3 only if they are non-zero, and don't want to see them if blank.  Basically, a "Hide if blank" option.  I couldn't find it - if it doesn't exist, are there any tricks to simulate it?

I am modifying the elogd.cfg automatically with a script.  The Script fetches a list of systems from a LDAP database and writes them into an "Options" line in the elog.cfg.

Everything worked fine, until we hit the critical number of 100 attributes.  I saw this is also stated in the manual.

Is there any workaround? I downloaded the source code and hat a quit look, but couldn't find the section which is responsible for this behavior. 

Is there a reason for this limit?

Thanks

Jonathan

Hi,

First of all, thanks for all the great work, we all thank you here at SESAME synchrotron 

I am trying to set a conditional attribute where selecting one option in that attribute should trigger multiple outcomes as shown below:

Options Type = Fault{1_1&1_2}, Test{2_1&2_2}, Report{2_1&2_2}

{1_1} Options Fault Status = Open{a}, Fixed{b}
{2_1} Preset Fault Status = NA
{1_2} Preset Icon = attn.png
{2_2} Preset Icon = icon1.gif

I tries adding "&" as shown but that didn't work, my goal is to have 1_1 and 1_2 triggered whenever I select "Fault" as type, how can I do that?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Sofian.