You will not loose your logbook data if you have access rights to the file system where the "elogd" program writes it's data.

The easiest way is to edit there password file directly and then restart "elogd".

But even if you do not dare to edit the files directly, you still can solve the issue from the web interface:

• Create a new account, e.g. user "admin2"
• While logged in as "admin", make this user an administrator: go to "Change config file", add "Admin user = admin, admin2"
• Now log off and then login as "admin2"
• Check that you can do administration, then remove user "admin"
• Create a new user "admin" with proper "Full name" and "Email"
• Now log off and then login as "admin"
• Check that you can do administration, then remove user "admin2"

That should work. Good luck!

Some user wanted to modify the URL by hand and succeeded to crash the elogd process with npp=now
It appears that npp=0 crashes elogd with the following error message:

Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
0x0808eba2 in show_elog_list (lbs=0xab3c770, past_n=0, last_n=0, page_n=1,
    default_page=1, info=0x0) at src/elogd.c:20214
20214            sprintf(str + strlen(str), loc("Page %d of %d"), page_n, (n_msg - 1) / n_page + 1);

I guess this bug is not OS dependent: you can crash every logbook that you can search ;-)

> [...] It appears that npp=0 crashes elogd [...]

Here's a patch: search for "npp" in src/elogd.c and add the following line:
  if (n_page<=0) n_page = 20;

Here's the diff output for version 2.9.0-2414
*** 20092,20096 ****
     if (isparam("npp"))
        n_page = atoi(getparam("npp"));
+    if (n_page<=0) n_page = 20;

     if (page_mid) {

A query to a logbook can crash the demon.

Query:
https://pc8059.psi.ch:444/SwissFEL+Injector/?jcmd=Find&m0a=10&d0a=27&y0a=2011&npp=1&reverse=0

gdb dump:
SSLServer listening on port 444 ...

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
show_elog_list (lbs=0xae72618, past_n=0, last_n=0, page_n=0, default_page=1, info=0x0) at src/elogd.c:20797
20797         message_id = msg_list[index].lbs->el_index[msg_list[index].index].message_id;

If you use an attribute "Entry" then the internal variable "entry time" will expand to the last value of
"$Entry"+" time", e.g. if you use it in "Thread display = $entry time, ..."

One side effect is, that the logbook selection page defaults to use
Last submission = $entry time by $author
Which then expands to an undesired result.

This is not really a bug, rather something you'll need to keep in the back of your mind.

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Sorry that I was mis-interpreting your question

• first, I would try to change to the standard port 443. Just in case it is related to some firewall, etc. problem.
• second, I would try another operating system than Ubuntu Lucid. It should work of course with Ubuntu, but if it still doesn't work with the other operating system then many things are already ruled out.
• third, I would try to set-up an apache webserver in front of ELOG. We have it here just for safety reasons. ELOG runs then on some special port and apache connects to it with a reverse proxy.

Christian Herzog wrote:

Andreas Luedeke wrote: Christian Herzog wrote: Andreas Luedeke wrote: Christian Herzog wrote: [...] we're evaluating elog right now at the Physics Department of ETH Zurich and I'm trying to come up with a good config. One of the first steps of course was to enable SSL/https. With http, all tested browsers work fine, but with https at least Google Chrome 16 and IE 9 do not get past the "unknown certificate" warning and I see "TCP connection broken" errors in the log file. Firefox however works fine. Same behavior on Linux, Mac and Windows (given the browser in question is available). elog server is running on Lucid.[... Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Detect language Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Korean Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish ⇄ Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Korean Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish Detect language » English    [...] The proper way out of this is to buy a certificate from a certification authority. Or to switch off https. (See https://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#global SSL option) we know about certificates, thank you  The point is that it stops AFTER the point at which I tell the browser to accept the self-signed certificates. I now even got a CACert and the problem remains: FF works, Chrome and IE don't: https://phd-bkp-gw2.ethz.ch:8080/admin/ log says: TCP connection broken [...] Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Detect language Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Korean Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish ⇄ Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Korean Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish Detect language » English   Sorry that I was mis-interpreting your question Unfortunately I don't know what's wrong with your set-up. I can confirm that I cannot access your logbook with "konquerer", but can access it with "firefox". The "konquerer" (on Scientific Linux 5.7) just gets timed out. But I can access other SSL/https ELOGs with the konquerer. The problem only occurs with your logbook! Therefore I would think it is a particular problem of your installation. I have three ideas how to isolate the problem: first, I would try to change to the standard port 443. Just in case it is related to some firewall, etc. problem. second, I would try another operating system than Ubuntu Lucid. It should work of course with Ubuntu, but if it still doesn't work with the other operating system then many things are already ruled out. third, I would try to set-up an apache webserver in front of ELOG. We have it here just for safety reasons. ELOG runs then on some special port and apache connects to it with a reverse proxy. The latter is a little bit of work (about a day) if you never set-up apache before. Therefore I would try the other two, first. Good luck! thanks for the fast resonse. 1) port 433 done. No change 2) compiled elog 2.9.0 on Squeeze and only reused the config file. No change: https://daduke.org:8443/ 3) we can do that (and we will) no problem, but I'd like to get it working w/o apache nonetheless speaking of reverse proxy: we'd like to hook elog to our LDAP server. As there's no LDAP binding built in, is there any way to use apache LDAP auth and then bind to that one?[...]

Okay, I did run out of ideas. I've never tested Chrome, but IE 8 and konquerer works fine here with SSL for our logbooks, but not for your logbook.

Regarding LDAP: you'll either need to convince Stefan Ritt or do it yourself ;-) Stefan did last year a kerberos binding for me: I was lucky that many other people had already asked for the same thing before me.

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