Didn't work for me. The text is just truncated after the width and no extra lines are added.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I also added some styles to the <pre> tag:
style="white-space: normal"
(see the screenshot on my previous post)

> Sorry, I forgot to mention that I also added some styles to the <pre> tag:
> style="white-space: normal"
> (see the screenshot on my previous post)

Actually the

style="white-space: normal"

makes the difference, the <div> is not necessary at all!

But I'm not sure that "white-space: normal" is what we want. All manual line breaks in an entry are collapsed and you get just one text block without any new line. See here

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space

I guess we want "white-space: pre-wrap" which keeps the old line breaks.

You can try that out by changing elog.css:

--- a/themes/default/elog.css
+++ b/themes/default/elog.css
@@ -475,6 +475,7 @@ td {

 .messagepre {
   font-family:'lucida console',courier,monospace;
+  white-space:pre-wrap;
 }

and see the effect. If you like it, just keep it. No need to recompile elogd.cxx.

Stefan

Greetings,

I was wondering, is it possible to wrap lines in the config file ? 

I have to add a dropdown lost which is kinda long and typing everything on one line will make ik kinda unreadable.
Somehow wrapping the line so each entry will get on a separate line would make it much better readable. (which
makes less errors).

W.
 

I noticed a long url got hard-wrapped when I entered a long one, I patched 
the source code. I don't know if this was done intentionally, otherwise you 
might want to change this also.

diff elogd.c elogd.c.org 
4468c4468
<     rsprintf("<textarea rows=20 cols=%d wrap=soft name=Text>", width);
---
>     rsprintf("<textarea rows=20 cols=%d wrap=hard name=Text>", width);

BTW, why is the editor window 20 rows by 76 columns ?
(20 is fixed in the source code, but 76 is the width-variable that is set 
hard to:

  /* set textarea width */
  width = 76;

Now I don't like both parameters. 20 is too long for my display (1024x768) 
and 76 is too short. Something dynamically would be cool, but a parameter 
somewhere in a config file would also be acceptable. (just a thought, makes 
it easier to upgrade)

Newly installed elog gives this response when I try to submit a new record:

New entry cannot be written to directory "./logbooks/Linux/" 
Please check that it exists and elogd has write access

I started the daemon.  I've not yet assigned passwords -- just checking
things out.  How can I create this access to my own directory?

When an attached image name contains a space in its filename and attachment
display is enabled elog builds a wrong url to the image:

http://arcolog.roma2.infn.it:8080/ARCO/050309_170709/peeling+002.jpg

instead of the correct one:

http://arcolog.roma2.infn.it:8080/ARCO/050309_170709_peeling+002.jpg

The more annoing thing is that elogs hangs on this. a strace shows a select
on fd n°3 and 5 that loops forever (returning a timeout error):

send(4, "<141>Mar 23 11:36:25 elogd[22189"..., 35, 0) = 35
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, NULL, 8) = 0
select(1024, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
select(1024, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)


May be the better solution is, after fixing the bug for backward
compatibility with already uploaded images, to implement a forced characters
substitution at upload time, replacing spaces and every character not in a
"allowed chars" list with an underscore

Hi,

I am trying to access elog through a python client (https://github.com/paulscherrerinstitute/py_elog) and found a strage strange behavior which may be related server side problem. The python script generates get/post messages via the python requests library. This works fine so far and I can view and post messages. However, if a wrong user/password is provided, the server still returns HTTP status code "200 OK", although login failed. Instead, it should return something like "401 Unauthorized". This behavior later causes problems since the python client thinks login was successful. After experimenting around I think this could be caused by a server side misconfiguration. Any ideas?

I am not sure if this imformation is important: We use LDAP as user/password provider for elog.