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Fri Dec 10 21:41:05 2021 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Question | Linux | 3.1.4 | Re: Unclear how to use the command line tool /usr/bin/elog | It is the default. If you install ELOG on your PC and run it, then every access will be directly to the ELOG web service. If you want to have Apache inbetween, it is some extra effort.
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Nope. How? Is it documented?
Stefan Ritt wrote: |
Have you tried to connect directly to elogd and not going through Apache?
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Thanks for the comments. I will pass them to the admins.
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Sun Dec 12 08:12:57 2021 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Question | Windows | latest | Re: Dump screenshot to new elog entry | I am no Windows expert. An option is to write your own application and use the "elog" command to post the output of the application to your ELOG.
There is as well a python library to access ELOG via http: https://github.com/paulscherrerinstitute/py_elog
Anthony J Krishock wrote: |
Hello,
I am interested in finding a preferrably single-click way to capture a screenshot and posting it automatically to a new elog entry . I would be doing this from Windows. Is this possible?
Thanks
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Thu Dec 16 18:24:41 2021 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Question | Linux | 3.1.4 | Re: Unclear how to use the command line tool /usr/bin/elog | Now you've totally lost me.
elogd is a web service. You connect to it with a web browser. You don't pass arguments at startup of the service that refers to specific atrributes. I have no idea what you intend to do, you need to explain a lot more.
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Hi Andreas,
I realize from your response that my question was not clear. I was not asking how to get it. Note that I am just a regular user, I am not the administrator of the service.
My question was about how to use it. From the man page, or from the explanation in the Administration Guide, it is not clear to me how to pass the same arguments I have been trying for /usr/bin/elog. For example, how to pass the list of attributes. I don't see a "-a" option for elogd.
Thanks.
Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
It is the default. If you install ELOG on your PC and run it, then every access will be directly to the ELOG web service. If you want to have Apache inbetween, it is some extra effort.
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Nope. How? Is it documented?
Stefan Ritt wrote: |
Have you tried to connect directly to elogd and not going through Apache?
Jose Caballero wrote: |
Thanks for the comments. I will pass them to the admins.
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Fri Apr 22 12:55:21 2022 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Question | Windows | 3.1.4-a04faf9f | Re: Vulnerability? |
> it would be good if the current state was listed in https://elog.psi.ch/elogs/Vulnerabilities/
> It seems there's now updated builds for at least windows, and the debian package still outdated?
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> Personally, I don't think removing download links and pulling packages should be more than a temporary measure.
> Treating people fairly IMHO means they should be able to reach a safe version by the same means that brought and left them exposed.
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> A clear central source would be best, one that has
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> - package autobuilds
> - source
> - cve list
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> If I understand correctly, currently only the source is up to date?
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> (I found py_elog on Github, so it could be an easy option to mirror ELOG there and let some free service handle the autobuilds.
> I don't know how well one can flag vulnerabilities there, but likely it's possible, and ideally more people would help there.)
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> p.s.: My hat is off to the sysadmin who checked carefully, I wanted to introduce ELOG in a windows-centric place and I can't swear I would have checked this (official) download as well.
Very good ideas! Go ahead and implement them! We very much appreciate your contribution. |
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Sat Jul 2 14:39:41 2022 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Question | Windows | 3.1.2 | Re: Slow performance | We have 68 logbooks and currently 60 GB data total. We run it as well on a VM, in our case with 8GB RAM.
The speed of ELOG is mostly given by the filesystem: when we had AFS it was very slow. With NFS it was better. But we now use a local disk on the VM: that is much better.
If you want to have the best performance (upload of large files can still slow down all users) then I would recomment local SSD for the file system of elogd.
You might talk to your system administrator: they can likely provide a local SSD on the VM server host.
Alan Grant wrote: |
We're up to 30 logbooks, 3.2GB data total and Elog damen has now become slow. Performance stats show 100%CPU on startup then reduces. Searches and general UI activity is slow. It runs on a VM with 4GB memory allocated. Up to 15 concurrent users.
Trimming and archiving some data files may help but I gather overall this is underpowered hardware in this instance so what is recommended system requirements for a config like this?
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Fri Jan 20 10:25:23 2023 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Request | All | - | Re: Wikipedia Article deleted | It looks to me like only an author of an article can contradict a deletion. I did not find a single method to even comment on the deletion.
I am not an Wikipedia expert, can anyone suggest on how to push for the article to be restored? Or do we just write it again, until people stop deleting it?
Stefan Ritt wrote: |
I agree. I ahead ;-) I think it is not a good idea if the ELOG author pushes on that, but better someone else.
Best,
Stefan
Sebastian Schenk wrote: |
Hello,
I noticed the wikipedia article of the ELOG got deleted in November 2021.
With the reason: "Poorly sourced article, and I was not able to find good sources myself."
I could access the old article through web.archive.org, but for the project it would be good, if the article got revived.
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Fri Jan 27 22:25:18 2023 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Request | All | - | Re: Wikipedia Article deleted | It appears to me that this is a really stupid problem: the article provides many links to sources, but they are just links, not "references". That does not count, since links could be something else than references.
I'll try to edit it and transform the list of external links into references to verify the text. Lets hope that this will suffice.
Okay: found three articles about applications of ELOG and put them under references. I took the liberty to submit the draft: it shows that they expect some month delay for a review. I have no idea if that was what they want, but it is worth a try.
Edmund Blomley wrote: |
If I understand it correctly I think it has to be submitted for review with the blue button on that page, just not sure if that should come from your side or someone else
Stefan Ritt wrote: |
I added some more references, that's about all I can do. Not sure if that is enough.
Stefan
Edmund Blomley wrote: |
It was now moved to the Draft space (which I did not even now existed so far): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:ELOG
Sebastian Schenk wrote: |
I have requested an undeletion of the article. The article was deleted "PROD", which means that someone tagged it. And if noone removes the tag, it could be deleted.
I could revive the article. So in the future, One should have an eye on it and maybe update the current version of the software.
If there iy an paper on the elog, maybe it could be cited for more creditability.
Andreas Luedeke wrote: |
It looks to me like only an author of an article can contradict a deletion. I did not find a single method to even comment on the deletion.
I am not an Wikipedia expert, can anyone suggest on how to push for the article to be restored? Or do we just write it again, until people stop deleting it?
Stefan Ritt wrote: |
I agree. I ahead ;-) I think it is not a good idea if the ELOG author pushes on that, but better someone else.
Best,
Stefan
Sebastian Schenk wrote: |
Hello,
I noticed the wikipedia article of the ELOG got deleted in November 2021.
With the reason: "Poorly sourced article, and I was not able to find good sources myself."
I could access the old article through web.archive.org, but for the project it would be good, if the article got revived.
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Mon Mar 13 16:16:09 2023 |
| Andreas Luedeke | andreas.luedeke@psi.ch | Question | Linux | 3.1.3 | Re: ssl certificate | I do run elog under:
Usr = elog
Grp = elog
But that does not change the location of my certificates: they are in "/usr/local/elog/ssl".
My guess: you just copied the .pem file to the /ssl directory, but did not rename it to server.crt?
And of course you need to overwrite server.key as well.
Kind Regards
Andreas
Giuseppe Cucinotta wrote: |
Hi I'm here again,
According to my conf file I run elog under a specified user and group different from root. So I copied the .pem file I obtained from certbot in /etc/ssl as well as /urs/local/elog/ssl and ssl folder in the user directory (I will call it <user-dir>) but when I launch elog I receive the error that cannot initialize SSL because the old self signed certificate server.crt in <user-dir>/ssl is not found.
I wonder where in elog.cfg or elsewhere is written that <user-dir>/ssl/server.crt must be usedand how to fix it
Thanks
Giuseppe Cucinotta wrote: |
Hi Laurent,
thanks very much! Probably I've copied the certificate in the wrong directory. I'll try ASAP
Laurent Jean-Rigaud wrote: |
Hi Giuseppe,
The new certificate files should be copy under ssl folder (/usr/local/elog/ssl or /usr/share/elog/ssl by example, closed to templates and script directories) in place of the embedded (autosigned) certificate files enclosed with ELOG source.
It seems that there is no parameter to set a custom path.
SSL = <0 | 1>
Turn on Secure Socket Layer transport. If SSL is on, one can connect via https://... to the elogd daemon. If the URL = directive is used, make sure to use https://... instead of http://... there. The ELOG distribution contains a simple self-signed certificate in the ssl subdirectory. One can replace this certificate and key with a real ceritficate to avoid browser pop-up windows warning about the self-signed certificate. The default for this option is 0 .
Giuseppe Cucinotta wrote: |
We obtained a certificate from let's encrypt in order to replace the self signed certificate provided with elog. We copied the new certificates replacing the older server.crt
The problem is that when restarted elog raises an error related to the fact it is looking for server.crt and it doesn't find it anymore.
I searched in elog config file in order to find a way to indicate the new certificate but I didn't find how to manage this issue.
Any suggestion?
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