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icon3.gif   my_shell (OS_UNIX) uses /tmp/elog_shell - conflict when more than one elogd runs at the same time, posted by John M O'Donnell on Fri May 20 22:45:00 2011 elogd.c.patch_shellPipe

all instances of elogd use the same file name in /tmp when calling my_shell.  This can cause some inconsistent behavior when two or more copies of elogd are runnnig at the same time.  (eg. one might detect ImageMagik is installed, and the other not,)

 

The propsed solution is to have the parent read from a pipe to the child rather from a file.  A patch is attached.

icon1.gif   this elog errors sending email, posted by Konstantin Olchanski on Wed May 20 01:52:23 2015 
this elog gives errors sending mail through PSI email server. (did not capture the error messages, sorry). K.O.
icon1.gif   edit somebody else's draft, posted by Konstantin Olchanski on Wed May 20 01:54:55 2015 
this elog offers me to edit a draft message, then yells at me "only some other user can edit this draft!!!".
methinks I should only be offered to edit draft messages that I own or I can edit. K.O.
    icon2.gif   Re: edit somebody else's draft, posted by David Pilgram on Wed May 20 22:12:49 2015 
> this elog offers me to edit a draft message, then yells at me "only some other user can edit this draft!!!".
> methinks I should only be offered to edit draft messages that I own or I can edit. K.O.
I find it odd that I can see someone elses draft, but never one that I am in the middle of composing (using a
different tab of the browser) in the elog listing.  There's one such draft Konstantin refers to in the logbook
listings now - last one was dark blue, this one a pink background, is there a reason for these different colours?
    icon2.gif   Re: edit somebody else's draft, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri May 22 13:50:31 2015 
> > this elog offers me to edit a draft message, then yells at me "only some other user can edit this draft!!!".
> > methinks I should only be offered to edit draft messages that I own or I can edit. K.O.
> I find it odd that I can see someone elses draft, but never one that I am in the middle of composing (using a
> different tab of the browser) in the elog listing.  There's one such draft Konstantin refers to in the logbook
> listings now - last one was dark blue, this one a pink background, is there a reason for these different colours?

I just tried that on the "Demo" logbook and could see my own draft entry (which appears pink) in a second tab.

Dark blue means you have not updated the default.css file properly from the current distribution.

Stefan
    icon2.gif   Re: edit somebody else's draft, posted by Midas User on Tue Jun 9 15:22:03 2015 
> this elog offers me to edit a draft message, then yells at me "only some other user can edit this draft!!!".
> methinks I should only be offered to edit draft messages that I own or I can edit. K.O.

I changed this behaviour now, so authors can only edit their own drafts. Furthermore, drafts are not shown any more in the elog lists. In addition, deleting of entries is allowed now again in this forum, so if someone creates a draft by accident, he/she can delete it.

/Stefan
icon5.gif   elog editor loses all text, posted by Kontantin Olchanski on Wed Aug 4 23:46:34 2010 

I just typed a long text into this elog, clicked "submit" and it bombed with "you must select an Icon", returned me to the editor with all my text gone gone gone. I do not want to select icons, I just want to report a problem with elog. Well, 2 problems, now.

K.O.

 

    icon1.gif   Re: elog editor loses all text, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Aug 6 13:01:24 2010 

Kontantin Olchanski wrote:

I just typed a long text into this elog, clicked "submit" and it bombed with "you must select an Icon", returned me to the editor with all my text gone gone gone. I do not want to select icons, I just want to report a problem with elog. Well, 2 problems, now.

K.O.

 

Well, first RTFM: "Fields marked with a * are required" on top of the elog entry page. Then, use a reasonable browser on a reasonable OS  

On Google Chrome the text is still there (actually I just tried it with this entry). No idea what Safari under OSX does. Under Windows, Safari keeps the text. Actually this is controlled by the FCKEditor inside elog which is written by someone else. So complain there! Funny: We have about 1000+ entries in this forum, and you are the first one complaining about this.

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