Many Thank's to Stefan for his work!!! He's doing a great job and is offering a better 
service than most comercial programs! Thank you very much Stefan!!! 
 
The new elogd.exe is now runniung 24h on my Windows 2003 Server without any problems. I made 
a little "stress" test too and there wasn't any problems at all. Also threaded view is 
working stable now. 
 
Is seems, that the new eleogd.exe uses a litle bit less of system rescources especially in 
theraded view mode. 
 
System specification for test: Pentium 4 2,4GHz, ASUS Motherboard, 480 MB RAM, SWAP File 1,1 
GB, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 5.2 including all paches until 15.3.04, IIS 6.0, 
Mercure Mail Server 4, McAffee Virus Scan & Firewall, ELOG 2.5.1 with new eleogd.exe runnig 
as service (system righs) with FireDaemon Lite 1.6GE. 
 
Please note that this problem has been occured under windows (reported for XP, 2000, 2003 
Server) only. Windows NT 4.0 is working well without the new eleodg.exe as well. 
 
 
> This problem has been fixed now, it was a programming bug. New version under 
>  
> http://midas.psi.ch/elog/download/windows/elogd.exe 
 
 

I develop multiple client server apps and web apps deployed on intranets. I
need my users to send me bugs with screenshots attached.

So I'm interested in auto opening a new elog page in an embedded browser and
automatically doing an attachment. I've seen a couple messages about
recently added Javascript hooks (message 465). The message specified a URL
that would fire off javascript(http://localhost/demo/?cmd=New&js=test.js).
Now apparently that wasn't fully working or at least you couldn't bring up
multiple alerts. Has that been fixed, or is it just a problem with alerts?
Can I write a url that has my attributes, plus a short js script that just
adds an attachment?

Anyhow, any info on where this functionality is would be appreciated. I'm
going back to my mgmt for signoff on using this, and if I get it (fairly
high probability), then I'll have a coder start implementing it. :-)

BTW, great tool! Very clean design.

Cheers,
Robin

Have a working copy of 1.35 running on NT4 server.
Went to upgrade to latest version.
Stopped service, installed the 2.52 version, restarted service and when 
trying to connect get nothing but server not found, dns errors, etc.
Copy back the 1.35 elogd.exe and everything is fine - I can connect and add 
entries to log.
Copy 2.52 elogd.exe and nothing.

So being the bright boy, I unistalled E-log, went through the registry and 
yanked everything out that referenced ELOGD, rebooted, installed 2.52, made 
the necessary registry changes, started service and nothing. 

Stopped service and copied 1.35 Elogd.exe back into folder, started service, 
and everything works.

Any ideas on why 1.35 works like a charm but 2.52 won't? I've tried stepping 
back to 2.10 version before giving up.

This is a server that is patched to latest and runs quite well with 1.35.

tuens out that the first log file was causing the problem. Elconv would just hang 
on trying to convert it. renamed it, reran elconv, reload service and 2.51 elogd 
and all was working as it should.


> Have a working copy of 1.35 running on NT4 server.
> Went to upgrade to latest version.
> Stopped service, installed the 2.52 version, restarted service and when 
> trying to connect get nothing but server not found, dns errors, etc.
> Copy back the 1.35 elogd.exe and everything is fine - I can connect and add 
> entries to log.
> Copy 2.52 elogd.exe and nothing.
> 
> So being the bright boy, I unistalled E-log, went through the registry and 
> yanked everything out that referenced ELOGD, rebooted, installed 2.52, made 
> the necessary registry changes, started service and nothing. 
> 
> Stopped service and copied 1.35 Elogd.exe back into folder, started service, 
> and everything works.
> 
> Any ideas on why 1.35 works like a charm but 2.52 won't? I've tried stepping 
> back to 2.10 version before giving up.
> 
> This is a server that is patched to latest and runs quite well with 1.35.

> I develop multiple client server apps and web apps deployed on intranets. I
> need my users to send me bugs with screenshots attached.

Nice idea. I was looking myself for a way to automatically attach screenshots,
but I haven't found a clever way yet. One problem with attachments I found is
that it is not possible to preset the attachment text box with a file name
because this would open up a big security hole. So a malicious web page would
preset the attachment box with a file name pointing to some local password file,
then hide the box somwhere by using a tiny font etc. So if someone presses
"submit", the secret file would automatically transferred to the remote site.
Now I don't know if this can be bypassed with JavaScript.
 
> Now apparently that wasn't fully working or at least you couldn't bring up
> multiple alerts. Has that been fixed, or is it just a problem with alerts?

The JavaScript you supply simply gets copied to the web page and executed. There
are no limitations of any kind from the elog system there. So if you have
problems, it's most likely a JavaScript problem. I found it very useful to use
the Venkman debugger (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/) which can run
inside Mozilla based browsers.

> Can I write a url that has my attributes, plus a short js script that just
> adds an attachment?

It should be in principle possible, limited maybe only with the security note I
wrote above. If you get anything working, I would appreciate if you could add
this to the "contributions" section, so that other people can benefit from this.

Hello,

is it possible to have an guest account together with a global password file?

I tried to put the password file statement into the global section of
elogd.cfg. But in this case every user must login and it is not possible to
have a read only guest account. 
But if I put the password file statemnet into the logbook sections, it is
possible to access the logbooks in read-only mode without logging in. The
drawback of this solution is, that you have to login into every logbook
seperately.

Bertram

> Hello,
> 
> is it possible to have an guest account together with a global password file?
> 
> I tried to put the password file statement into the global section of
> elogd.cfg. But in this case every user must login and it is not possible to
> have a read only guest account. 
> But if I put the password file statemnet into the logbook sections, it is
> possible to access the logbooks in read-only mode without logging in. The
> drawback of this solution is, that you have to login into every logbook
> seperately.
> 
> Bertram

Right, guest access is not possible with a global password file. This comes from
the fact that people wish to protect their logbook selection page. What I can do
is add another flag "protect selection page = 0 | 1". If "0", the logbook
selection page can be seen without logging in. Is that what yo want?

- Stefan

> > Hello,
> > 
> > is it possible to have an guest account together with a global password file?
> > 
> > I tried to put the password file statement into the global section of
> > elogd.cfg. But in this case every user must login and it is not possible to
> > have a read only guest account. 
> > But if I put the password file statemnet into the logbook sections, it is
> > possible to access the logbooks in read-only mode without logging in. The
> > drawback of this solution is, that you have to login into every logbook
> > seperately.
> > 
> > Bertram
> 
> Right, guest access is not possible with a global password file. This comes from
> the fact that people wish to protect their logbook selection page. What I can do
> is add another flag "protect selection page = 0 | 1". If "0", the logbook
> selection page can be seen without logging in. Is that what yo want?
> 
> - Stefan
Yes, that is what I want.
Bertram