Hello!

First I would like to thank you for making such a good free software available:). Then right back into the busness. I have a question to developers. I used the following Options to get the logbook entry  which defines the licences expiration date (See the attachement). Now I would like to ask on how to configure eLog to send an e-mail notification when this date is reached?

Attributes = Licence Expiration date
Type Licence Expiration date = date
Date format = %A, %B %d, %Y

The ideal solution would be to have configurable variable which would automatically send a notification X days before the expiration date is reached. Do you think this would be possible feature request to this Forum into eLog wishlist?

BR,

Tero Suominen

 Hi! Thanks for the quick response. Do you have any suggestions on which calendar applications I should start looking for for this purpose?

Thanks,

Tero

Dear All,

I could not submit a new enetry to my logbook whenever restarting my laptop.  I am a new user to elog.

Attached is the screenshot of the error message and also there is "nobody" while I grep elog.

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Tapasis-MacBook-Pro-2:elog-3.1.0 tapasi$  ps aux | grep elog

tapasi            560   0.4  0.0  2432772    644 s002  S+    9:50AM   0:00.01 grep elog

nobody             76   0.0  0.4  2481308  18440   ??  Ss    9:48AM   0:00.08 /usr/local/sbin/elogd -c /usr/local/elog/elogd.cfg

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Any suggesstion will be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Tapasi

Thanks for your reply.

I am the user and  it also has the write access 

cd /usr/local/elog/

ls -ltr

drwxrwxrwx  6 tapasi  admin  204 Jan  7 18:26 demo

Sorry, it was my mistake while copying  from terminal to the email .  There is no "demo" directory under /usr/local/lib.

Tapasis-MacBook-Pro:elog tapasi$ cd  /usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo

Tapasis-MacBook-Pro:demo tapasi$ ls -ltr

total 0

drwxr-xr-x   3 tapasi  admin   102 Sep 22 11:00 2001

drwxr-xr-x  55 503     admin  1870 Dec 17 13:21 2015

drwxr-xr-x   2 tapasi  admin    68 Jan  7 14:54 2016

So, how can I change the user from "nobody" to my name, so that elogd runs in my user name ?

Thanks

Dear all,

I just wanted to share a small script which I wrote to integrate our ELOG in Slack. This allows us to be notified immediately if there is a new logbook entry directly within the appropriate Slack channels. We're using ELOG V2.9.2-245 but if the log-file format has "Subject, Author, Type" in the header, it should work with any other version. I'm using Pyinotify for the file watch which relies on a Linux Kernel feature (merged in kernel 2.6.13) called inotify, so the script only works on Linux.

Here is the code: https://github.com/tamasgal/elog-slack

Cheers and thanks for ELOG!

Tom

I recommend monitoring directly on the server. Here is an example of a very simply Python script (https://github.com/tamasgal/elog-slack) which monitors the files very efficiently and immediately pushes notifications to Slack (slack.com). Just look at the code, it's pretty straight forward and very easy to adapt it to other (web) services.

Btw. here is an ELOG entry of it https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/68224

I just noticed that there are multiple messages per file, so I have to adapt the parser. I'll update this thread when I'm done!