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  66962   Tue Nov 30 19:30:31 2010 Agree Mike Zubermdz0739@yahoo.comQuestionWindows2.8Re: Action after message submission

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Mike Zuber wrote:

Is it possible to automatically go back to the list view in summary mode after submitting a new message instead of displaying the new message?

I know it's possible to display a page from a file after submitting a new message  by using "Submit Page = <file>". 
It would be nice to be able to use a command like "Submit Page = <command>" where I could insert "?cmd=Back" as in the "Start page" command.

Thanks,

Mike

I just implemented a new flag "List after submit = 1" which does exactly this. It brings you to the summary page after the submission of a new entry. I needed the function myself. The change is SVN revision 2327 and will be contained in the next release. 

 Sorry so long getting back to you, Stefan. Just wanted to say "thank you". This new function works great!

  66969   Mon Dec 6 16:43:29 2010 Agree Mariusz StakowskiMariusz.Stakowski@asseco.plQuestionLinux2.8.0Re: Adding attachment to an existing entry

Stefan Ritt wrote:

           

Mariusz Stakowski wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Mariusz Stakowski wrote:

Hello,

I have a problem when I try to edit an existing entry. I want to add an attachment. I can upload an attachment to the existing entry, but submitting it does not seem to work. The  added attachment is not visible. But it exists in logbook directory. The only way I found to add it, is to use "Resubmit as new entry" which is not quite what I want. Is it a design feature or perhaps I'm doing something wrong ?

I need to reproduce this problem in order to fix it. Do you see the same problem on the "Demo" forum?

https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Linux+Demo/

I'm sorry for the false alert :(. I was trying to submit edited entry using "upper submit" (just under the logbook name strip). I have tried "lower submit" (under Attachment 2) and it works with no problem. 

Well, also the "upper submit" button should work. I just tried at the demo logbook, and it worked fine (there is however now the problem that one has to click Submit twice to make it work). Can you check yourself? 

 

 

    Stefan,

I have checked it and it behaves exactly as you have described it. Perhaps this "double click"  has led me to that false conclusion ?

 

 

  66982   Sun Jan 9 07:04:00 2011 Agree Behdad Dbehdad@inbox.comQuestionWindows2.8Re: Multiple Insances of eLog on the same machine

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Behdad D wrote:

Hello,

Is it possible to run multiple instance of elog on the same windows box where each instance listens on a different port?

Thanks.

Behdad.

Sure. Just start with one subdirectory for each instance with a separate elogd.cfg file, where you specify a different port. Note however that there is also the concept of "top groups" (see documentation) which lets a single instance of elog look like several independent installations. 

 

Great. Thanks Stefan. 

I also am already using the top groups. This is just to totally separate my work and home elog.....I have to admit I am really an elog addict. 

This elog and the idea behind it is absolutely  brilliant. Very useful, easy to maintain, migrate, configure, easy to use, versatile, etc...  Good on you all.

Cheers,

Behdad.

  67008   Fri Feb 4 11:52:45 2011 Agree T. Ribbrockemgaron+elog@ribbrock.orgQuestionOther2.8.1Re: Strange problem with dates - need debugging help

Stefan Ritt wrote:

The problem is most probably related to the time zone. elogd contains a function:

/* workaround for wong timezone under MAX OSX */
long my_timezone()
{
#if defined(OS_MACOSX) || defined(__FreeBSD__)
   time_t tp;
   time(&tp);
   return -localtime(&tp)->tm_gmtoff;
#else
   return timezone;
#endif
}
 
from which you can see that there is a different behavior between different Linux flavors and OSX/FreeBSD. Maybe you need an additional
 
|| defined(__OpenBSD__)
 
if the pre-compiler directive __FreeBSD__ is not defined on your system.
[...]
 

 BINGO! That was it - thank you! I've added the || defined(__OpenBSD__) in the place you described above and now the dates are correct. While I was at it, I also had a look at what other ifdefs there are for FreeBSD and the only other one I found was also in elogd.c:

#if defined (_BSD_VA_LIST_) && defined (__FreeBSD__)

I'm far from being a C programmer, but I did some quick and dirty compile tests with various ifdefs set and apparently, _BSD_VA_LIST_ is not set on OpenBSD, so I guess that this statement does not need modification. I will keep my eyes peeled for strange behaviour, though...

Cheerio,

Thomas

P.S.: One thing I noticed is that the OpenBSD variant of gcc throws these warnings when compiling elogd.c:

gcc -g -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -DHAVE_SSL -I../mxml -o elogd src/elogd.c crypt.o regex.o mxml.o strlcpy.o -lcrypto -lssl
/tmp//ccHhMZfy.o(.text+0xd2f): In function `int_vasprintf':
src/elogd.c:826: warning: vsprintf() is often misused, please use vsnprintf()
/tmp//ccHhMZfy.o(.text+0xae8): In function `xstrdup':
src/elogd.c:736: warning: strcpy() is almost always misused, please use strlcpy()
/tmp//ccHhMZfy.o(.text+0x13c7): In function `my_shell':
src/elogd.c:1197: warning: sprintf() is often misused, please use snprintf()
/tmp//ccHhMZfy.o(.text+0xf0ae): In function `el_correct_links':
src/elogd.c:5178: warning: strcat() is almost always misused, please use strlcat()

I'm not certain whether this is specific to this gcc variant, but I seem to remember that the OpenBSD folks added some extra warnings and suchlike as part of their overall code audit, so I thought I'd mention it.

  67045   Mon Apr 11 17:31:21 2011 Agree Terry Shuckterry.shuck@atmosenergy.comQuestionWindows2191Re: Creating a form or table

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Terry Shuck wrote:

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Terry Shuck wrote:
Is there a way to open a form or table when clicking on New rather than going to a text field? Thanks, TS! 

Hi Terry,
it is not exactly clear to me what you want.
You can define many different types of attributes to an entry.
Like this logbook has "Icon", "Author", "Author Email", "Category", ...
That automatically creates a form for the input.
Or you can have some pre-filled text in the text area, like a pre-defined table.
E.g. with the following line:
Preset Text = input-form.html
Every new entry will now contain the content of the file input-form.html
which could be some table or list, ...

 Thank you very much for your replies Stefan and Andreas!

I've played with the Preset Text = input-form.html however when I open a new form it just has text in there stating "input-form.html. I feel like I'm missing a way for the Configuration to find my html file.

I feel like I am close but I'm missing one piece of data. Here is what I'd like to have, when I click "New" I'd like this table to be automatically inserted in the body.

Time Town/Location Shift Change Description CRM 701 Author

Receipt

           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks again, Terry

 

If you see only the file name it means that elogd cannot find the file, it's probably in the wrong directory. Have you put it into the "logbooks" directory? Like c:\Program Files\ELOG\logbooks\ 

 Yes thanks Stefan! It is working now.

Thanks again!

  67120   Wed Sep 7 16:23:01 2011 Agree Terry Shuckterry.shuck@atmosenergy.comQuestionWindowsV2.9.0-241Re: Password may not contain blanks

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Terry Shuck wrote:

After setting up email addresses for notifications I noticed that the "Full Name" has part of an email address in it. I've tried several ways to correct this however it keeps sending me to a page that says "Password may not contain blanks" and I've not done anything with the password.

Can you tell me how to correct this issue?

I certainly appreciate your help!!

Terry

 Have you tried deleting and re-creating the account? Otherwise you could stop elogd, edit the password file with a text editor, and restart elogd.

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!

 Fantastic! That worked great. Thanks so much for the help guys!!

Terry

  67258   Tue May 1 17:03:37 2012 Agree Per Erikssonpelle@sm4xiu.euInfoLinuxAnyRe: Compiling Elog for QNAP NAS x86

Per Eriksson wrote:

Hi All,

I am interested to have ELOG installed in my QNAP x86 based NAS (239 Pro II)
Have someone done this already or is there a write-up of a normal compile-procedure which I can have as a base when I attempt to compile?

Regards,

Per

I solved it.
I don't really know if I really needed to compile it but I complied this on the NAS itself so now it is 100% compatible (I believe)

Per

  67302   Fri Jul 13 15:12:07 2012 Agree Michael Dannmeyermichael.dannmeyer@solvias.comQuestionWindows2.9.0-2396Re: Problems with Autorization

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Michael Dannmeyer wrote:

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Michael Dannmeyer wrote:

Hello,

we used Admin and write passwords. Now this is no longer supported in ELOG 2.9.0 and I tried to change to File or Kerberos Autentication. But nothing worked. I tried the following lines in elog.cfg

[Serverlogbuch]
Authentication = File
Password file = C:\Program Files\ELOG\logbooks\Serverlogbuch\pwd.txt
Self Authentication = 1

So the self Autentication site opens and I can put in all informations. But if I click on save he tries to save the information in the password file and after a time he stops and Internet Explorer says that the page cannot be reached.

The file is not saved. If I remove the 3 lines the logbook opens without any problems.

I tried also kerberos but it didn't work. But there I think some entries in the krb5.ini are wrong.

Would you please help solving the File password problem?

[...]

Just two hints:

  • The file mentioned as "Password file" should be writeable for the "elogd" process. It is needed for both, Kerberos and File authentication. Better not specify the full path, it should assume the file in the logbook directory.
  • The command "Self Authentication = 1" does not exist. Maybe you mean "Self register = 1"?

Thank you for the answer, but it didn't solve the problem.

  • I used Self Register instead of Self Authentication. I deleted the complete path and only used the Filename.
  • The Account which is used to start the Elogd process is local system. System has full right at the logbook directory

 Should I use an Admin Account for the elogd process? The error message is always the same (page not reachable) The File is also not created in the logbook dir.

 

I once had problems with the local system account, so I used my own account to start the service and that worked. For trial, you can also start the elogd.exe program manually (not as a service) in a DOS box and see if it can create the password file. 

 That worked for me. Used an Account instead of local system and everything is OK. Thanks for your help.

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