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Fri Jul 18 08:57:21 2003 |
 | Stefan Ritt | stefan.ritt@psi.ch | Info | | 2.3.9 | Re: Version 2.3.9 released today | > It appears Im having problems getting this to work, my config is as follows, yet
> its not updating the log file since i installed the new RPM 2.3.9, is there a
> problem or am I doing something wrong ?
Oops, there was a bug. I added the resource directory in front of the logfile name,
which is not correct if the logfile name contains an absolute path. I fixed that in
the current CVS version. As a temporary fix, remove the resource dir in your elogd.cfg
or remove the full path in the logfile (the file will the be put into the resource dir
of course...). |
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Wed Jul 23 12:53:25 2003 |
| Robert Keeney | brassrlk@yahoo.com | Question | Linux | elog-2.3.6-1 | Re: Email Notification | I have had this installed for about two weeks now and it seems to be working
fine. I haven't seen any problems at all and none of the other users have
reported any.
Thanks. This is very helpful.
> > Is there a way to configure elog so users that have their email notification
> > on only get notified for updates to logs they have access to? I've looked
> > all through the documentation and I can't seem to find a way to do this.
>
> I guess you have a global password file and use "login user" statements for
> your logbooks. I have added some code which does per default not send any
> email to people who are not in the "login user" list, in case this list is
> present. New code under CVS. Please give it a try and let me know if it works
> for you.
>
> - STefan |
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Thu Jul 24 15:10:14 2003 |
| Stefan Ritt | stefan.ritt@psi.ch | Bug report | Linux | Windows | 2.3.9 | Re: Bottom text = <file> not displayed in every screen? | > I tried to add a file with the "Bottom text = <file>" option.
>
> Although one would suggest that the bottom text file is included in every
> page, I only saw the file appear in the page that appears when you issue
> the "cmd=Edit" command.
That's really weired. The file is displayed at the bottom of single messages,
and the message list, but NOT at the form, which you reach with the "Edit"
command. So all I can suggest ist the following:
- Hit the reload button on your browser each time you change that file, to
make sure the browser does not display a page from its cache
- The HTML file is *included* in the normal page, so it should not contain
<HTML> or <BODY> tags. Start with a simple file containing something like
<center>Test</center>
and see what you get.
- Make sure the file is in the elog "resource" directory, which gets
displayed if you start elogd with the "-v" flag.
Let me know if any of this helped. |
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Fri Jul 25 08:51:22 2003 |
| Stefan Ritt | stefan.ritt@psi.ch | | Windows | 2.3.9 | Re: elog.exe cmd line - seems to just hang | > opps nevermind, i didn't realize I had to put something in for the ending
> body text. Anyway to skip that part?
>
> > elog -h 192.168.0.25 -p 80 -l Database -a Type=test1 -a OS=W2K -a Loc=room1
> > -a Status=operational
> >
> > doing anything wrong here?
Due to frequent requests, the elog utility reads the message body text from the
console (stdin), if it's missing on the command line (like in your case). Under
Linux, you can then pipe some text into elog
cat message.txt | elog -h ...
or under Windows
type message.txt | elog -h ...
If you enter the text directly, you have to finish it with Ctrl-Z / Return
(Windows) or Ctrl-D (Linux). If you do not want any text, you can write
elog -h .... -a Status=operational " "
to submit an empty text (well, almost empty, contains single blank). |
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Sat Jul 26 10:29:33 2003 |
| Stefan Ritt | stefan.ritt@psi.ch | Question | | 2.3.9 | Re: Need fault-tolerance recommendations for using ELOG for Server Logs | I was thinking since some time already about mirroring between elog servers,
and actually started already some implementation.
The problem with mirroring on the file level does not work. Assume two
servers "serv1" and "serv2". Then assume that one message gets submitted on
serv1 and at the same day another message gets submitted on serv2. Now you
have on both servers a file 030726a.log, but you cannot copy this file
simply from one server to the other, since you would overwrite the message
submitted on the other server. Furthermore, you need file level access,
which is maybe easy between your laptop and your desktop computer, but not
if the two mirror servers are in different countries. Like in our
collaboration we have three servers located in Switzerland, Italy and Japan
(meg.psi.ch, meg.pi.infn.it, meg.icepp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp), where we cannot
have direct disk access.
So what I propose is the following mirror scheme:
o Each elog server may contain a list of mirror servers in the configuration
file
o Each elog server calculates an MD5 checksum from all local messages
o Synchronization between servers can be triggered manually (by clicking
on "Synchronize") or automatically at a given time and interval
o On Synchronization, the elogd server fetches the MD5 list from the mirror
server and compares it with the local list
o If a message has been edited remotely but not locally, it's fetched and
stored locally, same in the other direction
o If a message got edited on both sides since the last synchronization, the
user is asked to resolve the conflict (keep local or keep remote message)
o If there is a new message locally, its submitted at the remote server, but
with the same submission date/time as locally, same in the other direction
o If new messages are present on both sides, their message ID is changed so
that it is unique, then they are copied over. If there are already replies
to this message, their link (using the message ID) is changed accordingly
So I plan to implement this scheme in the next time. The MD5 checksum is
already there. If anybody has comments or additional wishes concerning
mirroring, telling them right now would be great, since I then can
accomodate them easier during the implementation.
- Stefan |
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Sun Jul 27 16:09:09 2003 |
| Stefan Ritt | stefan.ritt@psi.ch | Question | Windows | 2.3.9 | Re: using = or <> or AND as part of a filter ?? | > Is this possible? If so, could you provide an example:
>
> I'm trying to find a way that when you do a search, that you can filter
> entries using ( = , <>, AND) on one or more attributes.
> ex: Find all workstations for this subnet, but exclude a particular one.
> Thats the basic idea.
>
> Can it be done? If so, how?
No, it cannot be done right now, but it's on the wishlist since some time.
So I added your vote there. |
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Fri Sep 5 17:10:43 2003 |
| Stefan Ritt | stefan.ritt@psi.ch | Request | Windows | 2.3.9 | Re: Account expiration | > I know there's an item on the wishlist for password expiration, so how
> about account expiration..?? (after so many days of inactivity).
Ok, added to the wishlist.
> Another plea on my part, for Elog to allow for authentication via external
> database - such as LDAP, so we wouldn't have to maintain another user
> database.
I had that request more than once. The problem with it is that I cannot
implement it, since he have no LDAP server here at our institute to try it. So
if someone teaches me how to do LDAP authorization correctly, I can put it in,
but not before. |
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Fri Sep 5 17:13:07 2003 |
| Stefan Ritt | stefan.ritt@psi.ch | Question | Windows | 2.38 (?) | Re: email Notification | > Good day! I´m a german guy so my english is not the best sorry for this...
> I have my Elog completely configured now have I still another problem I
> would like with a new entry a E-Mail address to select to be able itself
> where the again provided entry am then hang-sent can me there someone
> help? already the whole has after forum answers scanned. Thanks David
I'm German as well, but cannot understand your question. Can you write an
email in German directly to me?
Ich kann Deine Frage leider nicht verstehen. Kannst Du sie mir direkt in
Deutsch per Email schicken? |
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