If it works with a simple edit, then why don't you use that one to edit individual values. I checked and version 3.1.4 had already the same problem, so it was not newly introduced. I would have to invest a couple of hours to fix this issue correcly, which I simply don't have right now.

Thanks !

Sometime I need to edit multiple values to add a new choice.
By exemple, if I add a new column "status" (open, closed...) , it's mandatory to use select menu to add the new value to existent entries.

With a lot of lines it's not possible to edit one by one.

Hi Stefan

Is there anything the community or forum can help you with or supply for creating a windows version?

Kind Regards Finn

Hi,

It's possible to build elogd under windows with cygwin, but not sure that is the best as it requires a lot of dependencies that should be included to dist package to be runnable everywhere.

After

• installation of dependencies (gcc-g++, make, libssl1.1, libssl-devel, opendlap-devel, libopenldap2, libkrb5-devel, libkrb5_3) using CygWin setup program,
• instalkation of git tool and clone the git repo (git clone https://bitbucket.org/ritt/elog --recursive),
• modification of Makefile to build with Kerberos/ldap/ssl support,

from cygwin bash under Windows 11, you can build elog :

/cygdrive/d/Devel/elog $ make
c++ -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -o elog src/elog.cxx mxml.o crypt.o strlcpy.o -lssl -lkrb5 -lldap -llber
c++ -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -w -c -o auth.o src/auth.cxx
c++ -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -o elogd src/elogd.cxx auth.o mxml.o crypt.o strlcpy.o -lssl -lkrb5 -lldap -llber
src/elogd.cxx:217:6: warning: ‘_timezone’ redeclared without dllimport attribute: previous dllimport ignored [-Wattributes]
  217 | long _timezone;
      |      ^~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx: In function ‘int el_submit(LOGBOOK*, int, BOOL, const char*, char (*)[1500], char (*)[1500], int, const char*, const char*, const char*, const char*, const char (*)[256], BOOL, const char*, const char*)’:
src/elogd.cxx:4963:47: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size between 100103 and 250102 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 4963 |       sprintf(message + strlen(message), "%s: %s\n", attr_name[i], attrib[i]);
      |                                               ^~
src/elogd.cxx:4963:14: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 4 and 300002 bytes into a destination of size 250104
 4963 |       sprintf(message + strlen(message), "%s: %s\n", attr_name[i], attrib[i]);
      |       ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx: In function ‘void show_edit_form(LOGBOOK*, int, BOOL, BOOL, BOOL, BOOL, BOOL, BOOL)’:
src/elogd.cxx:9655:28: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 3993 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 9655 |       sprintf(str, "Preset %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                            ^~
src/elogd.cxx:9655:14: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 8 and 150007 bytes into a destination of size 4000
 9655 |       sprintf(str, "Preset %s", attr_list[index]);
      |       ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:9676:43: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 3978 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 9676 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on first reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                                           ^~
src/elogd.cxx:9676:14: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 23 and 150022 bytes into a destination of size 4000
 9676 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on first reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |       ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:9697:37: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 3984 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 9697 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                                     ^~
src/elogd.cxx:9697:14: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 17 and 150016 bytes into a destination of size 4000
 9697 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |       ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:9697:37: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 3984 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 9697 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                                     ^~
src/elogd.cxx:9697:14: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 17 and 150016 bytes into a destination of size 4000
 9697 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |       ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:9697:37: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 3984 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 9697 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                                     ^~
src/elogd.cxx:9697:14: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 17 and 150016 bytes into a destination of size 4000
 9697 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |       ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:9697:37: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 3984 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 9697 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                                     ^~
src/elogd.cxx:9697:14: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 17 and 150016 bytes into a destination of size 4000
 9697 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |       ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:9717:36: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 3985 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 9717 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on edit %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                                    ^~
src/elogd.cxx:9717:14: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 16 and 150015 bytes into a destination of size 4000
 9717 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on edit %s", attr_list[index]);
      |       ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:9737:41: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 3980 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 9737 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on duplicate %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                                         ^~
src/elogd.cxx:9737:14: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 21 and 150020 bytes into a destination of size 4000
 9737 |       sprintf(str, "Preset on duplicate %s", attr_list[index]);
      |       ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:9758:22: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 3999 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 9758 |       sprintf(str, "p%s", attr_list[index]);
      |                      ^~
src/elogd.cxx:9758:14: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 2 and 150001 bytes into a destination of size 4000
 9758 |       sprintf(str, "p%s", attr_list[index]);
      |       ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:9776:31: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 3993 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 9776 |          sprintf(str, "Preset %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                               ^~
src/elogd.cxx:9776:17: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 8 and 150007 bytes into a destination of size 4000
 9776 |          sprintf(str, "Preset %s", attr_list[index]);
      |          ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:9797:40: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 3984 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 9797 |          sprintf(str, "Preset on reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                                        ^~
src/elogd.cxx:9797:17: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 17 and 150016 bytes into a destination of size 4000
 9797 |          sprintf(str, "Preset on reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |          ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:9817:44: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 3980 [-Wformat-overflow=]
 9817 |          sprintf(str, "Preset on duplicate %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                                            ^~
src/elogd.cxx:9817:17: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 21 and 150020 bytes into a destination of size 4000
 9817 |          sprintf(str, "Preset on duplicate %s", attr_list[index]);
      |          ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx: In function ‘void show_elog_list(LOGBOOK*, int, int, int, BOOL, char*)’:
src/elogd.cxx:20459:43: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 1587 [-Wformat-overflow=]
20459 |                sprintf(str, "Icon comment %s", attrib[i]);
      |                                           ^~
src/elogd.cxx:20459:23: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 14 and 150013 bytes into a destination of size 1600
20459 |                sprintf(str, "Icon comment %s", attrib[i]);
      |                ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:20506:33: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 1600 [-Wformat-overflow=]
20506 |                   sprintf(str, "%s_%d", attr_list[i], j);
      |                                 ^~
src/elogd.cxx:20506:32: note: directive argument in the range [0, 99]
20506 |                   sprintf(str, "%s_%d", attr_list[i], j);
      |                                ^~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:20506:26: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 3 and 150003 bytes into a destination of size 1600
20506 |                   sprintf(str, "%s_%d", attr_list[i], j);
      |                   ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:20470:33: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 1600 [-Wformat-overflow=]
20470 |                   sprintf(str, "%s_%d", attr_list[i], j);
      |                                 ^~
src/elogd.cxx:20470:32: note: directive argument in the range [0, 99]
20470 |                   sprintf(str, "%s_%d", attr_list[i], j);
      |                                ^~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:20470:26: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 3 and 150003 bytes into a destination of size 1600
20470 |                   sprintf(str, "%s_%d", attr_list[i], j);
      |                   ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:21052:30: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 1600 [-Wformat-overflow=]
21052 |                sprintf(str, "%s_%d", attr_list[i], j);
      |                              ^~
src/elogd.cxx:21052:29: note: directive argument in the range [0, 99]
21052 |                sprintf(str, "%s_%d", attr_list[i], j);
      |                             ^~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:21052:23: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 3 and 150003 bytes into a destination of size 1600
21052 |                sprintf(str, "%s_%d", attr_list[i], j);
      |                ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:21538:45: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 1588 [-Wformat-overflow=]
21538 |                   sprintf(str, "Time format %s", attr_list[i]);
      |                                             ^~
src/elogd.cxx:21538:26: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 13 and 150012 bytes into a destination of size 1600
21538 |                   sprintf(str, "Time format %s", attr_list[i]);
      |                   ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:21523:45: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 1588 [-Wformat-overflow=]
21523 |                   sprintf(str, "Date format %s", attr_list[i]);
      |                                             ^~
src/elogd.cxx:21523:26: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 13 and 150012 bytes into a destination of size 1600
21523 |                   sprintf(str, "Date format %s", attr_list[i]);
      |                   ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx: In function ‘void submit_elog(LOGBOOK*)’:
src/elogd.cxx:23293:38: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 2034 [-Wformat-overflow=]
23293 |          sprintf(str, "Subst on edit %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                                      ^~
src/elogd.cxx:23293:17: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 15 and 150014 bytes into a destination of size 2048
23293 |          sprintf(str, "Subst on edit %s", attr_list[index]);
      |          ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/elogd.cxx:23323:39: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 149999 bytes into a region of size 2033 [-Wformat-overflow=]
23323 |          sprintf(str, "Subst on reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |                                       ^~
src/elogd.cxx:23323:17: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 16 and 150015 bytes into a destination of size 2048
23323 |          sprintf(str, "Subst on reply %s", attr_list[index]);
      |          ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
c++ -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -o elconv src/elconv.cxx -lssl -lkrb5 -lldap -llber

Copy to new dir :

• the 3 binaries(elogd.exe, elog.exe & elconv.exe)
• logbooks, scripts, ssl and themes folders from git clone.
• elogd.cfg.example as elogd.cfg.

/cygdrive/d/Devel/elog/elog-win64 $ ldd elogd.exe
        ntdll.dll => /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll (0x7ff9796b0000)
        KERNEL32.DLL => /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/KERNEL32.DLL (0x7ff978050000)
        KERNELBASE.dll => /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/KERNELBASE.dll (0x7ff976af0000)
        cygwin1.dll => /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll (0x7ff925010000)
        cygkrb5-3.dll => /usr/bin/cygkrb5-3.dll (0x3fe4b0000)
        cygldap-2.dll => /usr/bin/cygldap-2.dll (0x3fdf70000)
        cyglber-2.dll => /usr/bin/cyglber-2.dll (0x3fe030000)
        cygssl-1.1.dll => /usr/bin/cygssl-1.1.dll (0x3ff4d0000)
        cygstdc++-6.dll => /usr/bin/cygstdc++-6.dll (0x3ff2f0000)
        cyggcc_s-seh-1.dll => /usr/bin/cyggcc_s-seh-1.dll (0x3ffc30000)
        cygk5crypto-3.dll => /usr/bin/cygk5crypto-3.dll (0x3fe600000)
        cygkrb5support-0.dll => /usr/bin/cygkrb5support-0.dll (0x3fe490000)
        cygintl-8.dll => /usr/bin/cygintl-8.dll (0x3ffa10000)
        cygcom_err-2.dll => /usr/bin/cygcom_err-2.dll (0x3fe9b0000)
        cygcrypto-1.1.dll => /usr/bin/cygcrypto-1.1.dll (0x3ffce0000)
        cygsasl2-3.dll => /usr/bin/cygsasl2-3.dll (0x3fdee0000)
        cygiconv-2.dll => /usr/bin/cygiconv-2.dll (0x3ffa30000)
        cygz.dll => /usr/bin/cygz.dll (0x3ff280000)

/cygdrive/d/Devel/elog/elog-win64 $ ls
elconv.exe  elog.exe  elogd.cfg  elogd.exe  logbooks  scripts  ssl  themes
 

/cygdrive/d/Devel/elog/elog-win64 $ ./elogd.exe
elogd 3.1.5 built Apr 12 2023, 00:01:15 revision 33884104
CKeditor detected
ImageMagick NOT detected. Image scaling will not work.
Indexing logbooks ... done
Server listening on port 8080 ...

With that, elogd starts and the site is usable.

NB: after installing imageMagick, elogd starts with activation of image manipulation features.

/cygdrive/d/Devel/elog/elog-win64 $ ./elogd.exe
elogd 3.1.5 built Apr 12 2023, 00:01:15 revision 33884104
CKeditor detected
ImageMagick detected
Indexing logbooks ... done
Server listening on port 8080 ...

For who as interested, I enclosed 2 zips, with (elog-win64_wDLL.zip) or without (elog-win64.zip) Cygwin DLL (licence: https://cygwin.com/COPYING). The build uses the current git version.

Regards,

Laurent

Hi Laurent

It is possible to use the attached but the elogd will not start as a service anymore - is there a fix to that aswell?

Kind Regards Finn

Hi Members,

I have compiled and installed ELOG in Ubuntu 22.04. My ELOG version is 3.1.5 revision fc6679b. I would like to use both the password file (../logbooks/elog.pwd) and the LDAP for authentication purpose. In addition to this, new users should be able to register and existing users should be able to reset their password.

Anyone could shed some light on how to do this in the configuration file?

Thanks,
Scott

The section of the ELOG Administrator's Guide https://elog.psi.ch/elog/adminguide.html describing how to build and install ELOG on a Mac OS X system has worked well for me for several years, even though there have been warnings that the "load" and "unload" subcommands of the "launchctl" command have been deprecated for some time.  After trying my luck again on a new Mac with the latest operating system, I encountered errors of the type "Load failed: 5: Input/output error" when attempting to follow these instructions.

After a bit of searching around, I used information at the page https://www.alansiu.net/2023/11/15/launchctl-new-subcommand-basics-for-macos/ to deploy the more current subcommands as follows:

sudo launchctl enable system/ch.psi.elogd
sudo launchctl bootstrap system /Library/LaunchDaemons/ch.psi.elogd.plist 

sudo launchctl disable system/ch.psi.elogd

Once the above can be verified, perhaps the instructions in the Administrator's Guide can be updated accordingly.

Here's a more complete/correct set of the updated commands:

sudo launchctl enable system/ch.psi.elogd
sudo launchctl bootstrap system /Library/LaunchDaemons/ch.psi.elogd.plist 

sudo launchctl bootout system /Library/LaunchDaemons/ch.psi.elogd.plist
sudo launchctl disable system/ch.psi.elogd

Cheers,
Andreas