Hello,
    In the newest version of eLog, I was having trouble saving the 
configurations once I change them through the web interface.  I can change 
them and save them fine if I do it in notepad; but that way you have to 
restart the elogd server.  I think this is a bug on the new version unless 
I am doing something wrong.  Also I was wondering if you were going to add 
any of the wish list items on version 2.0.6 (Conditional attributes seems 
to have the most votes and would be an extremely helpful feature!! :-).  
Thank You.

Mo.

> > Comiling elogd 2.0.4 under Solaris obviously fails with
> > 
> > gcc  -o elog elog.c -lsocket -lnsl
> > gcc  -o elogd elogd.c -lsocket -lnsl
> > elogd.c: In function `ss_file_find':
> > elogd.c:1372: `alphasort' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > elogd.c:1372: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > elogd.c:1372: for each function it appears in.)
> > make: *** [elogd] Error 1
> > 
> > because alphasort is an ucb'ism which does not exist under SYSV
> > 
> > ... not very portable :-(
> 
> I was not aware of this. Actually, I don't need 'alphasort' so I removed it 
> from the source. The update is at
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/elogd.c
> 
> Please give it a try.

ok - i just continued with 2.0.5, but apparently it still has an UCB'ism
(scandir) that does not work under SYSV:

$ make
gcc -g -o elogd elogd.c -lsocket -lnsl
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
scandir                             /tmp/ccy0Z3iV.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to elogd
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [elogd] Error 1
$ egrep scandir elogd.c
  n = scandir(path, &namelist, NULL, NULL);
$ 

> Just compiled elog-2.0.5 under Solaris 8 and 9  without any warnings/errors
> but the elogd binary just core dumps:
> 
> # /opt/ELOG/bin/elogd -c /opt/ELOG/elogd.cfg 
> Indexing logbook "demo"...
> Bus Error (core dumped)
> 
> .. tracing elogd shows:
> 
> [ lines snipped ]
> 2964:   brk(0x005B8A68)                                 = 0
> 2964:   ioctl(1, TCGETA, 0xFFBEE6BC)                    = 0
> Indexing logbook "demo"...
> 2964:   write(1, " I n d e x i n g   l o g".., 27)      = 27
> 2964:       Incurred fault #5, FLTACCESS  %pc = 0x000164C0
> 2964:         siginfo: SIGBUS BUS_ADRALN addr=0x2F757372
> 2964:       Received signal #10, SIGBUS [default]
> 2964:         siginfo: SIGBUS BUS_ADRALN addr=0x2F757372
> 2964:           *** process killed ***
> #
> 
> ... any glue ?

Hmmm - stupid me used a broken patch  used to get rid of alphasort under 2.0.4
this entry and it's predecessor should be DELETED - sorry for the confusion :-(

Just compiled elog-2.0.5 under Solaris 8 and 9  without any warnings/errors
but the elogd binary just core dumps:

# /opt/ELOG/bin/elogd -c /opt/ELOG/elogd.cfg 
Indexing logbook "demo"...
Bus Error (core dumped)

.. tracing elogd shows:

[ lines snipped ]
2964:   brk(0x005B8A68)                                 = 0
2964:   ioctl(1, TCGETA, 0xFFBEE6BC)                    = 0
Indexing logbook "demo"...
2964:   write(1, " I n d e x i n g   l o g".., 27)      = 27
2964:       Incurred fault #5, FLTACCESS  %pc = 0x000164C0
2964:         siginfo: SIGBUS BUS_ADRALN addr=0x2F757372
2964:       Received signal #10, SIGBUS [default]
2964:         siginfo: SIGBUS BUS_ADRALN addr=0x2F757372
2964:           *** process killed ***
#

... any glue ?

Version 2.0.5 of elog has been released today. Among various bugfixes, the 
display speed for threaded lists has been improved significantly. Display 
all messages of this forum and press the reload button to see the 
difference.

Right now it is not possible to easily include pictures into the message body, but I put it on the wishlist. Of course you can always refer to external pictures if you submit your text as HTML and put the proper tags there like this one:

and you can even scale them like

but of course this requires to have that image stored somewhere else. I will probably add a feature like

att:name.gif

which will reference a picture from the attachment, and will be converted to the full picture name after submitting that message.

> Is there a way to change the From address used when sending notifications 
> from ELOG?   I was hoping there might be another attribute that would go 
> along with the smtp host section.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric

Yes there is an option

Use Email from = xxxx

see documentation.

> > Anyone seen similar problems? 
> Probably not if you read the config file, 'cause I didn't. Shame on me...
> 
> But what this shows (Stefan: correct me if I'm wrong) is that if you set 
> the port number in the [global] section of the config file, the command-line
> option '-p' is ignored. FYI...
> 
> Joeri

I changed that behaviour, so from 2.0.5 on the command line port setting has 
precedence over the configuration file (as it should be).