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Fri Apr 5 10:07:57 2013 |
| Stefan Ritt | stefan.ritt@psi.ch | Bug report | Linux | 2.9.2 | Re: Checking logging before posting |
Daniel Campora wrote: |
Hi there,
Here's a bit of a special scenario. There's no server-side check the user is logged in upon posting, but it rather seems the server relies on the post data sent from the form.
An example of this can be triggered on a write restricted elog, by hitting on New and logging out in another tab. Then posting, from the first tab, will post as if the user was logged on. Hitting back and posting again also works.
Cheers
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Yes the credentials are stored in the form where you enter your text. This has following reason: In a shared environment (several people sitting around a computer) we want to identify who submits an elog entry, but not bother the person to enter his/her password every few minutes. So in our experiment I set the time-out to 15 min, meaning after 15 minutes of inactivity a user gets logged out. If the user accesses ELOG every ten minutes or so, he/she stays logged in for a whole shift, which is what you want. Now the problem is that one starts an elog entry, waits twenty minutes, then wants to submit it, but you are bought back to the login screen and your entry is gone. Therefore I store the credentials (encrypted) in the form, so that the form can even be submitted after 20 minutes. Users at our lab are pretty happy with this solution.
In fact there is no way you can 100% ensure that the logged in user submits an entry without asking for his/her password during the submit. Even if the time span above is only very short, it still can happen that someone starts an entry, leaves the room, and someone else submits it. So people got used to the good practice not to leave any unfinished elog entry open when they go or leave the browser (to another tab for example). If I would implement to password request during the submit, there would be two problems: 1) Users will heavily complain and 2) I have to store the form data temporary (together with some optional attachments) on the server side, start a password query, and only if that succeeds submit the entry. This is somehow complicated to implement since I cannot use the normal elog database. Then I have to care about dangling entries (like if the password was wrong I should delete the temporary data???) and so on.
I plan for the future a kind of "draft" mode, where entries can be stored as "drafts" (like in most email systems). You get an auto-save every few minutes, and can work on the draft before actually submitting it. In that case your password query could be implemented more easily. But implementing the draft mode needs a change of the database system, so I have to find time to do that.
Best regards,
Stefan |
67509
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Sat May 18 17:41:51 2013 |
| Norm | normthompson@yahoo.com | Bug report | Windows | Unknown | Application failed to initialize properly | I attempted to install the newest version of elog on our site elog server from an old old version. Around 2008 I believe. I then received an application failed to initialize properly 0xc0150002 after installing the newest version. I then tried installing the Feb 2013 version and received the same message. Panicked, I rolled back our server to its state yesterday. I would like to update our elog software, anyone know why I am receiving this error?? |
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Tue May 21 14:33:09 2013 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Bug report | Windows | Unknown | Re: Application failed to initialize properly |
Norm wrote: |
I attempted to install the newest version of elog on our site elog server from an old old version. Around 2008 I believe. I then received an application failed to initialize properly 0xc0150002 after installing the newest version. I then tried installing the Feb 2013 version and received the same message. Panicked, I rolled back our server to its state yesterday. I would like to update our elog software, anyone know why I am receiving this error??
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Hi Norm. I have not much experience with windows, but I can give you my two cent on how to proceed:
- Check the old elogd version. It is shown at the bottom of your elog web page (this forum shows ELOG V2.9.2-2475).
- Copy your logbook data to a different PC, maybe your office PC.
- Then compile the latest elog on your office PC, run it with the copied data and access it as http://localhost:8080 (or whatever port number you are using)
- If it is still crashing: re-compile it using "make debug" and run it from a debugger (I don't know any C-debugger for Windows). Post the precise error message.
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Good luck! |
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Sat May 25 16:09:58 2013 |
| Norm | normthompson@yahoo.com | Bug report | Windows | Unknown | Re: Application failed to initialize properly |
Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
Norm wrote: |
I attempted to install the newest version of elog on our site elog server from an old old version. Around 2008 I believe. I then received an application failed to initialize properly 0xc0150002 after installing the newest version. I then tried installing the Feb 2013 version and received the same message. Panicked, I rolled back our server to its state yesterday. I would like to update our elog software, anyone know why I am receiving this error??
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Hi Norm. I have not much experience with windows, but I can give you my two cent on how to proceed:
- Check the old elogd version. It is shown at the bottom of your elog web page (this forum shows ELOG V2.9.2-2475).
- Copy your logbook data to a different PC, maybe your office PC.
- Then compile the latest elog on your office PC, run it with the copied data and access it as http://localhost:8080 (or whatever port number you are using)
- If it is still crashing: re-compile it using "make debug" and run it from a debugger (I don't know any C-debugger for Windows). Post the precise error message.
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Good luck!
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Thanks for the reply. I just got back from a business trip and I will try this ASAP. Thanks and I will be posting the error message. |
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Sat Jun 1 20:20:03 2013 |
| Norm | normthompson@yahoo.com | Bug report | Windows | Unknown | Re: Application failed to initialize properly |
Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
Norm wrote: |
I attempted to install the newest version of elog on our site elog server from an old old version. Around 2008 I believe. I then received an application failed to initialize properly 0xc0150002 after installing the newest version. I then tried installing the Feb 2013 version and received the same message. Panicked, I rolled back our server to its state yesterday. I would like to update our elog software, anyone know why I am receiving this error??
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Hi Norm. I have not much experience with windows, but I can give you my two cent on how to proceed:
- Check the old elogd version. It is shown at the bottom of your elog web page (this forum shows ELOG V2.9.2-2475).
- Copy your logbook data to a different PC, maybe your office PC.
- Then compile the latest elog on your office PC, run it with the copied data and access it as http://localhost:8080 (or whatever port number you are using)
- If it is still crashing: re-compile it using "make debug" and run it from a debugger (I don't know any C-debugger for Windows). Post the precise error message.
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Detect language » English
Good luck!
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Andreas,
We do not have the current revision at the bottom of any of the pages. Is there another way I can find out the current revision I'm using?
Thanks! |
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Mon Jun 3 13:56:35 2013 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Bug report | Windows | Unknown | Re: Application failed to initialize properly |
Norm wrote: |
Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
Norm wrote: |
I attempted to install the newest version of elog on our site elog server from an old old version. Around 2008 I believe. I then received an application failed to initialize properly 0xc0150002 after installing the newest version. I then tried installing the Feb 2013 version and received the same message. Panicked, I rolled back our server to its state yesterday. I would like to update our elog software, anyone know why I am receiving this error??
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Hi Norm. I have not much experience with windows, but I can give you my two cent on how to proceed:
- Check the old elogd version. It is shown at the bottom of your elog web page (this forum shows ELOG V2.9.2-2475).
- Copy your logbook data to a different PC, maybe your office PC.
- Then compile the latest elog on your office PC, run it with the copied data and access it as http://localhost:8080 (or whatever port number you are using)
- If it is still crashing: re-compile it using "make debug" and run it from a debugger (I don't know any C-debugger for Windows). Post the precise error message.
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Detect language » English
Good luck!
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Andreas,
We do not have the current revision at the bottom of any of the pages. Is there another way I can find out the current revision I'm using?
Thanks!
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Try:
/usr/local/sbin/elogd -h
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This is the path for Linux, it is likely different on Windows. But you could just run "elogd -h" in the directory where you compile elogd.
It should print out the version in the first line. |
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Tue Sep 3 22:21:29 2013 |
| Hal Proctor | hproctor2@gmail.com | Bug report | All | latest | Find by date/time | Is it a time zone issue or a setting issue related to the FIND by date / time issue?
It seems to add an hour to each of the time selections once you select SEARCH. see attached pics |
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Tue Sep 3 23:03:38 2013 |
| David Pilgram | David.Pilgram@epost.org.uk | Bug report | All | latest | Re: Find by date/time |
Hal Proctor wrote: |
Is it a time zone issue or a setting issue related to the FIND by date / time issue?
It seems to add an hour to each of the time selections once you select SEARCH. see attached pics
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One hour adrift at this time of the year sounds like daylight saving. Or compensation thereof. What is your computer clock set to (not what time the clock reads)?
Personally I think it rather naughty that [at least older] Windoze automatically sets the clock one hour forward the first reboot after the spring switch forward, and the same in the autumn back. What if you'd already done it, like all the rest of the clocks in the house?
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