I'm slowly able to see the finish line

Now all I need to do is get SSL to work. My server name is hf-info-elog and I'm not sure what the correct values for Port= and URL= should be.

thank
Tom (the green-horn)

All you need is a SSL=1 in the config file, then the default port of 443 will be used. The URL is the one seen from outside, like

https://hf-info-elog.psi.ch

or so. The certificate from the distribution is self-signed and therefore the browser will complain. Go to AIT to obtain an official certificate.

- Stefan

Hello to @all

First please let me say that I'm a complete green-horn when it comes to linux

I'm running elog on a linux virtual server and would like to use kerberos authentication. If I set 'Authentication = Kerberos' in the elogd.cfg file I get,


If I set 'Authentication = Kerberos, File' it works fine. I hope this is just some error on my part.

thanks,
Tom

Is Kerberos set up correctly on your PC? What is the Kerberos Realm? Does the command "kinit <your user name>" work correctly? If not, you have to install and configure Kerberos correctly. Make sure to have USE_KRB5 turned on in your Makefile. 

 Thanks for the quick reply!

I downloaded and installed the latest RPM. Is Kerberos used in the RPM? The command "kinit xxxxxxx"requests my password and then returns to the prompt. I believe that the virtual server is a normal PSI linux, but I'm not 100% sure

Kerberos is not used in the RPM. You have to compile yourself from the tar ball. 

 O.K.
Like I said in the beginning, I'm a linux green-horn How do I stop the elogd daemon, and do I have to delete all the elog files and directories created by the RPM or can I just follow the instructions for the tar file and install / make over the RPM installation?

/etc/rc.d/init.d/elogd stop

Just compile elogd with Kerberos support and copy it over the existing elogd daemon.

  I think it's working now !!!!

Thanks
Tom

Hello

Want a hyperlink in one of the attributes like this : http://Someserver/someDir/perl.pl#subject

In this way I should be able to redirect to a certain part of the html that the perl script is generating. When I setup this manually it works. ( typing directly the html link into the attribute )

 
When I put the html link into elog config file it will never show up the correct format : everything after the '#' is translated into the digit 1. ( So you get  http://Someserver/someDir/perl.pl1 . ) 

I tried to escape with \# used quoting " and '. No luck.  Tried to use the &#97; , No luck. 

I've tested with several versions of elog but it seems that it has never worked. 

Allow HTML = 1 dit not work for me.

Has it to do with the autoincrement  ? ( Subst Number = XYZ-##### ) I think so because of the 1 that is returned if i use a http link . When I use the same link  http://Someserver/someDir/perl.pl#subject a second time i'll get back :
http://Someserver/someDir/perl.pl2 . So it seems that the auto increment feature plays a role in this one. 

Can this be done in the attributes of elog.? Can I have a # in a hyperlink ?

Thanks for your time.

Nobody needed such a functionality so far. I implemented it for you in SVN revision 2449. So you can simply escape it like "\#" 

Segfault when password file is empty and not writable a segmentation fault is generated when a new user tries to register:

root#  > passwd


root#  chown root.root passwd


root#  chmod 644 passwd


root#  grep -i usr elogd.cfg


root#


kernel: [515323.672377] elogd[31048]: segfault at 78 ip 00000000004ba780 sp 00007fff03cd2078 error 4 in elogd[400000+dc000]
 

I cannot reproduce this error when running within gdb.

Thanks for reporting that bug. I fixed it in SVN revision 2448. 

Hi Stefan,

I'm having a problem with 'Preset Text' now behaving differently in the latest release (2.9.1)?
My config file for example has always had: 'Preset Text = This is a test.', previously 'This is a test' was put
verbatim into the text area, now it seems to think whatever follows 'Preset Text =' is always a file and I end
up with 'File <i> This is a test. <i> cannot be found'?

I did notice a 'Print warning if "preset text" file cannot be found' line in the latest release notes, does this
now mean wherever I have used the method above I will now need to make a text file to match?

I'm using them embedded in conditional attributes if that makes any difference?

Thanks for your help.

> Hi Stefan,
> 
> I'm having a problem with 'Preset Text' now behaving differently in the latest release (2.9.1)?
> My config file for example has always had: 'Preset Text = This is a test.', previously 'This is a test' was put
> verbatim into the text area, now it seems to think whatever follows 'Preset Text =' is always a file and I end
> up with 'File <i> This is a test. <i> cannot be found'?
> 
> I did notice a 'Print warning if "preset text" file cannot be found' line in the latest release notes, does this
> now mean wherever I have used the method above I will now need to make a text file to match?
> 
> I'm using them embedded in conditional attributes if that makes any difference?
> 
> Thanks for your help.

Thanks for reporting this bug. I fixed it in SVN revision 2447.

localhost$ svn diff elog.spec

 I am trying to import a CSV file in to a logbook. The Attributes seem to import fine but it kicks out the first 2 columns of data and shifts the data over to the left by 2 columns. Has anyone tried to do this?

The CSV file must be wrongly formatted. But I don't see it I can't tell you what's wrong. 

 Here is an example of the CSV I am trying to import.

Thanks for reporting this bug. I fixed it now in SVN revision 2446. 

 Thanks for the quick response!!