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icon4.gif   Error with not existing user name, posted by Stefan Siegel on Wed Sep 11 18:37:27 2002 
Hi,

Elogd v. 2.1.2:

When trying to acces a password protected Log (global password file) with a 
non existing username one gets the response : cannot open file : <pw 
filename>

Better would be a message like: wrong user or password!

Regards,

Stefan
    icon2.gif   Re: Error with not existing user name, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Sep 24 16:59:11 2002 
> Elogd v. 2.1.2:
> 
> When trying to acces a password protected Log (global password file) with a 
> non existing username one gets the response : cannot open file : <pw 
> filename>
> 
> Better would be a message like: wrong user or password!

Has been fixed in 2.2.0
    icon7.gif   Re: security in find option as a guest, posted by Etienne Van Caillie on Fri Jan 10 15:10:53 2003 
> > may be add a parameter
> > 
> > Restrict Search all logboog = 1 or 0
> > if 1 the switch will not appear 
> 
> The flag "Search all logbooks" is already there! (I forgot about it!). So 
> just set it to "0" and you should be fine.
> 
> - Stefan

I do and it work fine
    icon4.gif   Re: runtime error under Mac OS X 10.2, posted by Sridhar Anandakrishnan on Mon Jun 30 02:12:24 2003 
Joe,

Run the command 
`limit' (if you are running tcsh) and `ulimit -a' if you are running bash
(these are command line programs that will tell you the resources you are
allowed to use.  Look at filesize, datasize, and stacksize - these need to be
8M or so)

You can increase these by typing, e.g.,

limit filesize unlimited
limit datasize unlimited
limit stacksize unlimited

(the equivalent command for bash are `ulimit -f unlimited', `ulimit -d
unlimited' and `ulimit -s unlimited', without the quotes)

which will increase the limits to the max imposed by the administrator.  
If that doesn't increase your limits, you will have to contact the admin to
have them raised system wide.

If you are the administrator/sole user, you can set them to the max in the file:

/etc/rc.common.

I have included the following at the end of the file:

##
# Enable coredumps if requested.
##
if [ "${COREDUMPS:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then
    ulimit -c unlimited
    ulimit -d unlimited
    ulimit -s unlimited
fi


and I have put this in /etc/hostconfig

COREDUMPS=-YES-

Hope this helps - if that doesn't fix it, sorry!

Sridhar

> I have been trying to build and run elog under Mac OS  X 10.2.6, without
sucess.  I 
> understand that this is not one of the 'supported' platforms, but I hope
that there is someone   
> here who might know the work-around to my problem.
> 
> I've tried building elog 2.2.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.7, and 2.3.8.  I've tried using
the compiler that comes 
> in the Mac OS X 10.2 box, as well as the gcc-based compiler supplied in
Apple's Dec 2002 
> developer update (gcc 3.1), and the June '03 update as well (gcc 3.3).
> 
> elog builds without error in all cases I tried.
> 
> When I run it, it will correctly serve the demo notebook.  However, when the
user clicks on the 
> test message to display it in full, there is a seg fault.
> 
> I suspect that the trouble might be with something defined in time.h.
> 
> I've run it in gdb, and the result is appended to this message.  This is for
gcc 3.3 and elog 
> 2.3.8.
> 
> 
> I would greatly appreciate any hints or suggestions.
> 
> Cheers, Joe
> 
> ---
> 
> [satsuma:~/Documents/elog_build/elog-2.3.8] jgiaime% gdb ./elogd
> GNU gdb 5.3-20030128 (Apple version gdb-282) (Fri Jun 13 03:33:07 GMT 2003)
> Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "powerpc-apple-darwin".
> Reading symbols for shared libraries .. done
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /Users/jgiaime/Documents/elog_build/elog-2.3.8/elogd 
> Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
> Indexing logbook "demo" ... ok
> Server listening on port 8080...
> 
> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
> 0x00005870 in el_retrieve (lbs=0x1, message_id=50, date=0xbfff2500 "demo", 
> attr_list=0x0, attrib=0x365620, n_attr=1, text=0xbfff2280 "1", textsize=0x1, 
> in_reply_to=0x0, reply_to=0x0, attachment=0x0, encoding=0x0, locked_by=0x0)
at src/
> elogd.c:2775
> 2775    {
> (gdb) up
> #1  0x0001d9b4 in interprete (lbook=0x1 <Address 0x1 out of bounds>,
path=0xbfff2280 
> "1") at src/elogd.c:12279
> 12279       show_elog_message(lbs, dec_path, command);
> (gdb) up
> #2  0x0001db10 in decode_get (logbook=0xbffff340 "demo", string=0x3a300a
"1") at src/
> elogd.c:12325
> 12325     interprete(logbook, path);
> (gdb) up
> #3  0x00020080 in server_loop (tcp_port=836736, daemon=-1073732640) at src/
> elogd.c:13398
> 13398             decode_get(logbook, p);
> (gdb) up
> #4  0x00021134 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff850) at src/elogd.c:13832
> 13832     server_loop(tcp_port, daemon);
> (gdb) up
> Initial frame selected; you cannot go up.
> (gdb) 
    icon1.gif   Re: runtime error under Mac OS X 10.2, posted by Recai Oktas on Mon Jun 30 02:41:33 2003 
Seems a stack problem.  I don't have an OS X box to validate my guess.  I've
made a Google search with the keywords: EXC_BAD_ACCESS stack "os x"

Perhaps the following reply [1] might help...

  How big are they? You're probably running into the default stack size 
  limit, which is 512 KB. Try `unlimit stacksize` in your shell before 
  running, which will give you 65536 KB per stack.

[1] http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/archives/gtkrad-macos/2003-January/000453.html
    icon14.gif   Re: runtime error under Mac OS X 10.2, posted by Joseph Giaime on Mon Jun 30 05:15:14 2003 
Sridhar & Recai,

Thanks to both of you for the rapid and effective advice.  Fixing the limit corrected my problem.  
I think I last got tripped up this way 10 years ago...

I suppose that the advice to increase Mac OS X's default stacksize limit might make a fine entry 
in the FAQ or README file.

Thanks again,
Joe 
    icon2.gif   Re: runtime error under Mac OS X 10.2, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Jun 30 17:16:56 2003 
> I suppose that the advice to increase Mac OS X's default stacksize limit
> might make a fine entry in the FAQ or README file.

I added a note in the installation instructions. 
(http://midas.psi.ch/elog/adminguide.html)

- Stefan
icon4.gif   problem with boolean attributes, posted by Heiko Scheit on Fri Aug 1 13:18:42 2003 elog.diff
Boolean attributes were not displayed correctly in version 2.3.9.
Patch is attached.
ELOG V3.1.5-3fb85fa6