Hello 

I've managed to create several logbooks that are an index of a (slow) shared 
directory. Now I use elog to search for files that are located on the slow 
shared directory and just have to click on the link in the elog logbook to open 
the file. Every day a simple batch file and 2 perl scripts will recreated the 
elog logbooks. So updates are done without any user input. ( mainly via the 
elog.exe program ) This all works great. 

To access the shared files in the above mentioned logbooks i use for one of the 
attributes : (All on one line) :

<A HREF='\\////HOST/dir 1/dir 2/dir 3/dir 4/dir 5/dir 6/dir 7/filename.doc' target='_blank'>filename.doc</a>

And this works great.

In the above the .doc may be replaced with .html, .xls or whatever WINDOWS 
supports. 

Here is my question : 

Now I want to open a  .html on my local drive. Should be possible but i seem to 
miss the correct format. With local drive I mean the drive that elog is running 
on. In my case this is C: 

I tried : 

file:///c:\dir 1\dir 2\file.html
file:///c:/dir 1/dir 2/file.html
<A HREF="file:///c:\dir 1\dir 2\file.html">file.html</a>
<A HREF="file:///c:/dir 1/dir 2/file.html">file.html</a>
<A HREF='file:///c:\dir 1\dir 2\file.html'>file.html</a>
<A HREF='file:///c:/dir 1/dir 2/file.html'>file.html</a>

and much more variants of the above. ( the first two examples do not respect the 
Spaces in directory names and file name, tried some quoting, but does not help)

In my browser ( IE7.0)  i see in the status bar : 

file:///c:/dir%201/dir%202/file.html

That seems to be OK. But nothing happens when i click the left click the link in 
the elog logbook. 

The above contains the correct directories and filenames. I know that the file 
is there because right clicking the link in elog and selecting "Save Target As" 
will save the file. However just left clicking the link to the file does not 
open the browser to display it. ( As i stated : this works on a shared drive, but not 
on a local drive.) 

Any suggestions ? 

Hello

In my config file I have the following :

Options Head = AIX61{1},AIX53{2}, AIX52{3},HMC{4},CL_CLUSTER{5},VIRTUALIZATION{6},MICROCODE{7},BG_BLUEGENE{8}

{1} Options Topic = SECURITY, HIPER,TL00,TIPS
{2} Options Topic = SECURITY, HIPER,TL07,TL06,TL05,TL04,TL03,TL02,TL01 ,TIPS
{3} Options Topic = SECURITY, HIPER,TL10,TL09,TL08,TL07,TL06,TL05,TL04,TL03,TL02,TL01 ,TIPS
{4} Options Topic = HMC_CORRECTIVE, HMC_SECURITY,HMC_FIXES,HMC_INSTRUCT,HMC_MEDIA,HMC_DOCUMENT
{5} Options Topic = CL_DEEPCOMPUTING,CL_SYSMGMT,CL_GPFS,CL_LOADLEVELER,CL_ESSL,CL_PARALLEL_ESSL,CL_SWITCH,CL_RSCT,CL_PENV,CL_INIFINI
{6} Options Topic = PLM,VIOS_PM,VESS,VIOS,VIOS_WPM
{7} Options Topic = 2104-XU3,7017-S80,7017-S70,7020-40P,7025-F50,7025-F40,7025-F80,7026-B80,7026-H80,7026-M80,7028-6C4,7028-6E1,7029-6E3,7025-H50,702X-H70,7038-6M2,7039-651,7040-6X1,7043-140,7043-240,7043-260,7044-170,7248-43P,7043-150,704X-270,8203-E4A,8204-E8A,8844-3AZ,9076-SP,9110-510,9110-51A,9111-285,9111-520,9112-265,9113-550,9114-275,9115-505,9116-561,9117-570,9117-MMA,9118-575,9119-590,9119-595,9123-XXX,9124-XXX,9131-52A,9133-55A,9406-MMA,7037-A50,7047-185,ADAPTERS,DASD,DRIVES,CERTIFIED,OTHER
{8} Options Topic = BG_RELEASES,BG_FIXES,BG_COMPILERS,BG_REDBOOKS,BG_GPFS,BG_ESSL,BG_LOADLEVELER,BG_CSM

All is working fine when creating new entries. But when i use the  find command window,  i only see the Head options and selecting one of them,

the Topic options will not show up like they do when creating new entries.

I've installed the latest elog on Fedora ( version ELOG V2.7.3-2058 ) , but it's the same as the window version i'm using .

Would be nice if the user can search with the same items he used entering the data into the form.

Thanks for you're time.

greetings Arno Teunisse

Hello

Sometimes it can come in handy to start a temporary elog service on the Windows platform. ( Maybe for testing purposes )

You can use the SC.exe utility to do that. If it is not on you're system you may download it from : ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/reskit/win2000/sc.zip

For this you can use the following procedure ( from the dos prompt ) :

 sc.exe create AIX-elog binPath= "\"c:\ELOG2.7.3\elogd.exe\" -D -c c:\ELOG2.7.3\security.cfg" DisPlayname= "AIX Elog Security" start= auto

If all went well the system answers :

 [SC] CreateService SUCCESS

Please notice the strange way the double quotes are used and the space after the = in the above command.

Now open the windows services ( from the prompt ) : services.msc

In the window that opens you will see the just created service with the DisPlayname you gave in the above command.

You see it is not started. You could click start, but there is an other way.

Now you can start the service from the prompt using the DisPlayname :

  net start "AIX elog security"

Press F5 ( refresh ) in the services window and you will see that the service is started.

Or stop the service :

  net stop "AIX elog security"

To remove the service ( from the registry ) :

   sc.exe delete AIX-elog

The system gives back :

  [SC] DeleteService SUCCESS

The other option is to start elogd.exe from the prompt :

  elogd.exe -c 

This is all for now

Hello Stefan

Just downloaded the windows version. It is working great !! Thanks, for this quick solution.. and you're time..

Just like elog more and more...

Just noticed that in IExplorer and Firefox when creating a new entrie i got a popup with the following text in it : Unknown toolbar item "ShowBlocks"

When clicking OK : everything is working. Think it has to do with FCKedit, but I'm not shure.

Hello Stefan

You're right. Probably it's the old FCKedit that was in the browser cache. Clearing it and the problem was gone.

So there's nothing wrong with you're laptop.

Thank's again for the fix..

Hello

Was playing with elog. I send mail to the persons involved with a elog entrie. This mail produces something like this ( rather default) .

 Logbook: Accelerator  Message ID: 4    Entry time: 05/10/09 21:48:25     In reply to: 3

When I am logged in into elog , clicking on the Message ID 4 or 3 from the mail client , elog is started with the logged in user at that time and it's permissions.  So instead of starting a new elog session ( and getting the guest permission ) I get the permission of the currently logged in user.( Could be the administrator / root) . The process will function correctly i no one is logged in into elog. I've tested this on a local machine, so I cannot say if the same happens when multiple  machines are used. So, maybe it's a bug, maybe it's my testing  configuration. 

Do not know if i explained  the problem clear enough, but is seems something that could be examined.

By the way : thanks for this great and free program.