Our Unix server died, so we decided to move our old eLog to the new server, running Mac OSX. Elog version is earlier then 2013, I can not say

I read that on OSX  eLog must be intalled through "make" command

if I need to install eLog first, how to add all old information later?

• you need to copy your logbooks into the "logbooks" directory.
• you need to copy your elog.cfg logbook config file to the new elog folder and reference it at start-up (something like "elogd -c /usr/local/elog/elogd.cfg ...")

Some people modify other stuff (CSS, java scripts) but if you had you would know what you did.

If the old ELOG was a 2.x version and the new is 3.x, then on the first start-up all logbook data files are copied into sub-folders for each year.
This is only done (automatically) during the first start-up, afterwards you can not use a 2.x version anymore (you won't want that anyway).

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.

If not is there some way I can work around this without to much trouble?  I
have lots of logs and would really hate to have to make configuration
changes in all of them .

Having the message body mailed to you is very convenient but some of my
users only get to see their logs. If the body gets mailed to them they get
to see everything anyway. 

When I had to use separate password files this wasn't an issue.

> 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

You guessed right. I give it a try soon as I get a chance. Thanks.

> 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

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

Hello,

I have a quick question regarding how to display text using the "Top text" 
feature in the elogd.cfg file.  I've made an entry that looks like the 
following:

Top text = <h1>TEXT TO DISPLAY</h1>

But instead of getting just "TEXT TO DISPLAY" I get something like this:

----begin page ---
/usr/local/elog         "TEXT TO DISPLAY"

...rest of page 

----end page ---

...that is, on the far left at the top of the page in unformatted text 
is "/usr/local/elog/" prepended to the text I want do display. 

I don't know if this is a bug, or (more likely) something misconfigured in 
my setup. But any help that could be provided would be most greatful.

Thanks,

Val