Is there a way to create a "front page" or "table of contents" for a logbook?

While chronological entries are good and what elog was designed for, I find myself wanting a page to summarize important things
and/or link to important files that are somewhere in that logbook.  And, I would like to use the features of the elog editor to do (not just point
to another www page that points to the various elog entries).  For example, in an analysis logbook, you would like to have one page that
may summarize latest on analysis and point to best/latest plot/drawing of something and not have to re-search for it every time.

I think that start page with cmd to go to entry 1 (how do I do that?) may work.  Then I just keep editing entry 1 to point to latest info or
entries.  Will this work?  Will I run into a size limitiation if I attach too many files to that?   Is there a better way?

One could imaging using a wiki to do this, however, I never seem to get to updating our wikis... maybe I should just figure how to
get elog to do it.

Thanks.

Well, if you never get to update your wiki, you will you get to update your summary page? As you know there is no free lunch.

For my analysis logbooks, I do it such that I create an arbitrary entry in the logbook, where I put references to other entries. Using the syntax "elog:<id>" this is very simple like here: elog:67222. Then I put a link to that special page in my browser bookmarks. This puts me one mouse click away from accessing this page. You can link to other elog pages but also to page attachments this way, so no need to put too many attachments into a single page, although there is no limit on that.

Best regards,
Stefan 

Thanks for suggestion... it gave me idea for slightly different way to do it.  The method you suggest doesnt work that well to share in group (everyone would have to add that link in their bookmarks).. So I added this in config file:
Title image = <img border=0 height=25 src="bulb.png" alt="Summary/TOC entry">
Title image URL = <http:link to my specific elog page/entry num>

That replaces elog help icon with a link to TOC entry which can be any entry number.  One could make a custom icon and perhaps play around with adding more than one link (?).

Another thing that could do same thing and maybe more consistent with elog philiosophy would be to add a command that goes to a specific link or entry.... but this current solution works...

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!!