Hardcoded Path in Makefile, posted by Martin Killenberg on Tue Feb 20 18:41:31 2007
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I tried to compile ELOG on Scientific Linux Cern 4.4 and found that make quits because uname is not located in /usr/bin (like it is hardcoded in the makefile) but in /bin.
Later I found that this is only the case in the svn version, in the "latest.tar.gz" from 2007/02/20 the path is /bin.
Why do you have the absolute path in the Makefile? uname should be in the default path on any system. (The same applies to "rm")
I also was confused that you only provide one rpm Package (except for debian) without mentioning for which distribution. You try to avoid dependencies, but the elogd is linked against the basic libraries libc and ld-linux, which might vary. |
Re: Hardcoded Path in Makefile, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Feb 20 21:10:28 2007
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| Martin Killenberg wrote: | I tried to compile ELOG on Scientific Linux Cern 4.4 and found that make quits because uname is not located in /usr/bin (like it is hardcoded in the makefile) but in /bin.
Later I found that this is only the case in the svn version, in the "latest.tar.gz" from 2007/02/20 the path is /bin.
Why do you have the absolute path in the Makefile? uname should be in the default path on any system. (The same applies to "rm")
I also was confused that you only provide one rpm Package (except for debian) without mentioning for which distribution. You try to avoid dependencies, but the elogd is linked against the basic libraries libc and ld-linux, which might vary. |
Ups. The hard-coded /usr/uname somehow sneaked in from some temporary test. I removed it in the current SVN.
Indeed the RPM package I provide is built under Scientific Linux. The Debian port is done by someone else. Unfortunately I don't have ten boxes with all possible distributions laying around, so my possibilities are quite limited and I depend on third party help. If you want to contribute additional RPMs you are welcome. |
Required and {}, posted by bob on Wed Feb 14 16:46:27 2007
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Hi,
I still have a question,
is it possible to use : Required and {}
here my program :"
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{run} Required Attributes = Date evenement, Heure evenement, ...
{run} Show Attributes = Date evenement, Heure evenement, ...
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{etuvage & ANS} Required Attributes = Date evenement, Heure evenement, ...
{etuvage & ANS} Show Attributes = Date evenement, Heure evenement, ...
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generally, can one handle "Required" and "{}" or "{ , }", ...
in any case for me, that does not go
this is normal ??
Thanks
Bob |
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Re: Required and {}, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Feb 16 17:19:30 2007
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| bob wrote: | | generally, can one handle "Required" and "{}" or "{ , }", ... |
For simple configuration files, that should work. If I have for example:
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Options Type = Routine{r}, Software Installation{s}, Problem Fixed{p}, Configuration, Other
{r} Required Attributes = Author
Then the attributes "Author" is only required if "Type" equals "Routine". |
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Re: Required and {}, posted by bob on Mon Feb 19 20:46:39 2007
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| bob wrote: | | generally, can one handle "Required" and "{}" or "{ , }", ... |
For simple configuration files, that should work. If I have for example:
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Options Type = Routine{r}, Software Installation{s}, Problem Fixed{p}, Configuration, Other
{r} Required Attributes = Author
Then the attributes "Author" is only required if "Type" equals "Routine". |
you are right, I try to re-examine my configuration and I will say to you |
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Preset of a drop-down box entry with a "%" character, posted by Tobias Bagger on Sun Feb 18 10:51:13 2007
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How do I preset a drop-down box entry which contains a % character?
I use following lines in the elogd.cfg:
Options list->ta = K - 0%, S - 10% (text a1), F - 20% (text a2)
Preset list->ta = K - 0%
The documentation says:
If a preset value is given for an attribute which has an options list, the preset value is selected in the drop down box by default.
But this doesn't work for me. I also tried
Preset list->ta = "K - 0%"
Preset list->ta = K - 0%%
Preset list->ta = K - 0\%
without success. What's the right way to do this?
Best regards
Tobias |
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Re: Preset of a drop-down box entry with a "%" character, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Feb 19 11:29:03 2007
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| Tobias Bagger wrote: | | How do I preset a drop-down box entry which contains a % character? |
The problem was that '%' is used in auto-generated preset tags like XYZ-%Y-%b-### (see documentation). I made the auto-generation a bit more clever such that it only tries to interprete any '%' if there is any '#'. The fix is in elog version 2.6.4. |
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Setting From: for registration/password e-mails, posted by Ben Waugh on Fri Feb 16 12:08:19 2007
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We had a problem, as mentioned in the documentation, with "new password" e-mails being rejected because the default From: address is invalid, so we changed this using "Use Email From".
According to the documentation, "By default, the email address of the currently logged in user is used for the "From:" field. If no user is logged in, or the current user has not specified a email address in the password database, the setting of the option Use Email From is used for the "From:" field."
However, when an address is specified in "Use Email From" we find that all e-mail notifications, even those sent automatically when a logged-in user submits a log entry, are sent from this address.
How can we set a valid address for use for "change of password" or registration e-mails, but still use the appropriate user's e-mail address for log entries? |
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Re: Setting From: for registration/password e-mails, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Feb 16 16:45:33 2007
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| Ben Waugh wrote: | We had a problem, as mentioned in the documentation, with "new password" e-mails being rejected because the default From: address is invalid, so we changed this using "Use Email From".
According to the documentation, "By default, the email address of the currently logged in user is used for the "From:" field. If no user is logged in, or the current user has not specified a email address in the password database, the setting of the option Use Email From is used for the "From:" field."
However, when an address is specified in "Use Email From" we find that all e-mail notifications, even those sent automatically when a logged-in user submits a log entry, are sent from this address.
How can we set a valid address for use for "change of password" or registration e-mails, but still use the appropriate user's e-mail address for log entries? |
Right. The logic in the program and the documentation disagreed. The program uses the "Use Email From" address always if it's there, while the documentation gives preference to the user's email address. I change that in the program so that it agrees with the documentation. The modification is in SVN revision 1789 and will be contained in the upcoming next release. |
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Re: Setting From: for registration/password e-mails, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Feb 16 17:14:53 2007
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: | | Right. The logic in the program and the documentation disagreed. The program uses the "Use Email From" address always if it's there, while the documentation gives preference to the user's email address. I change that in the program so that it agrees with the documentation. The modification is in SVN revision 1789 and will be contained in the upcoming next release. |
Actually I had to change it once more. Some installations do want to have always a pre-defined email address, such as this forum, which uses noreply@psi.ch. So I added a new option Default Email From. The precedence is now in decreasing order
- Use Email from
- user's email address
- Default Email from
So only when a user is not logged in, the Default Email from setting is used if present. |
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About Extendable, posted by bob on Tue Feb 13 15:57:25 2007
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Hi,
I have a problem and I do not understand why
my config is
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{tdl} Show Attributes = De, He, Auteur, Ten, TDL
{tdl} Options TDL = de, fr, gt
{tdl} Extendable Options = TDL
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I play with {tdl}, i add TDL (toto),
and after that, i open my config:
"{tdl} Show Attributes = De, He, Auteur, Ten, TDL
{tdl} Options TDL = de, fr, gt, toto, toto
{tdl} Extendable Options = TDL
"
And my preview is wrong !!
why 2 * toto thus?
thanks a lot
Bob |
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Re: About Extendable, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Feb 16 17:01:45 2007
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| bob wrote: | Hi,
I have a problem and I do not understand why
my config is
"
{tdl} Show Attributes = De, He, Auteur, Ten, TDL
{tdl} Options TDL = de, fr, gt
{tdl} Extendable Options = TDL
"
I play with {tdl}, i add TDL (toto),
and after that, i open my config:
"{tdl} Show Attributes = De, He, Auteur, Ten, TDL
{tdl} Options TDL = de, fr, gt, toto, toto
{tdl} Extendable Options = TDL
"
And my preview is wrong !!
why 2 * toto thus?
thanks a lot
Bob |
I tried it myself and did not get two "toto"'s. Maybe you hit "Submit" twice or so? One thing I would recommend however is not to name an attribute "TDL" and a condition {tdl} the same. And also make sure you have the newest version of elog. I remember there was once a problem with the "Preview" button adding extended attributes more than once. |
Various attributes and columns “list” , posted by bob on Tue Feb 13 16:46:54 2007
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Re Hi,
Is it possible to put various (and choose them) the attributes in the SAME columns of the “list” ??
Thanks a lot
Bob |
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Re: Various attributes and columns “list” , posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Feb 13 17:25:11 2007
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| bob wrote: | Re Hi,
Is it possible to put various (and choose them) the attributes in the SAME columns of the “list” ??
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I don't understand what you mean. |
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Re: Various attributes and columns “list” , posted by bob on Tue Feb 13 17:48:05 2007
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| bob wrote: | Re Hi,
Is it possible to put various (and choose them) the attributes in the SAME columns of the “list” ??
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I don't understand what you mean. |
Ok,
in the summary,
we can look at each line with its adapted attributes.
I would like the same line which informs several attributes without modifer List display = ID, Date...
Is this possible?
while hoping to be understood 
Bob |
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Re: Various attributes and columns “list” , posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Feb 13 19:25:47 2007
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| bob wrote: | in the summary,
we can look at each line with its adapted attributes.
I would like the same line which informs several attributes without modifer List display = ID, Date...
Is this possible? |
No. |
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Re: Various attributes and columns “list” , posted by bob on Wed Feb 14 09:22:01 2007
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| bob wrote: | in the summary,
we can look at each line with its adapted attributes.
I would like the same line which informs several attributes without modifer List display = ID, Date...
Is this possible? |
No. |
Ok,
Thanks
 |
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Synchronization using https, posted by Alexandre Lindote on Thu Jan 18 16:29:43 2007
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Hi,
I have an elog server running on a linux desktop machine inside our institutional firewall. It can be accessed from inside the firewall directly using http, but users from outside have to use https, with apache (and its ssl module) controlling the access.
I also set up another server on my laptop, just for backup purposes, and synchronized it inside the firewall (using a direct http connection). No problems there!
Now we want to have several servers set up (in different institutions), and have them synchronized automatically. For this I installed elog on a mac server (in another institution, so outside our firewall), also accessible only through https (again using apache).
I configured all the required mirror settings, but always get an error: "Remote server is not an ELOG server".
I've tried changing the status of the 2 machines (server-client), but get the same error...
I also tried different approaches for the Mirror server parameter, like
https://the.remote.server
https://the.remote.server:443
http://the.remote.server:443
but no luck...
Running elog with the -D flag off issued this message:
| Quote: | HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:22:10 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) DAV/1.0.3 mod_ssl/2.8.24 OpenSSL/0.9.7l
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="zeplin2"
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Authorization Required
This server could not verify that you
are authorized to access the document
requested. Either you supplied the wrong
credentials (e.g., bad password), or your
browser doesn't understand how to supply
the credentials required.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at shalott.pp.rl.ac.uk Port 80
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The servers have user level passwords, and I'm mirroring with Mirror user parameter set to the administrator...
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Alex |
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Re: Synchronization using https, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Jan 18 20:19:22 2007
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| Alexandre Lindote wrote: | | Now we want to have several servers set up (in different institutions), and have them synchronized automatically. |
Synchronization works such that the "client" elogd (the one on which the synchronization is started) "emulates" a browser and accesses the other elogd server. Since SSL is not built into elogd, it can only use the http protocol, not https. If you want secure synchronization, the only chance you have is to make a SSH tunnel on which you run the http protocol for synchronization. |
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Re: Synchronization using https, posted by Marcus Hauser on Tue Feb 13 15:11:18 2007
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| Alexandre Lindote wrote: | | Now we want to have several servers set up (in different institutions), and have them synchronized automatically. |
Synchronization works such that the "client" elogd (the one on which the synchronization is started) "emulates" a browser and accesses the other elogd server. Since SSL is not built into elogd, it can only use the http protocol, not https. If you want secure synchronization, the only chance you have is to make a SSH tunnel on which you run the http protocol for synchronization. |
Would it be possible to use rsync to syncronise two elogd servers on different servers via secure synchronization on the file level?
E.g.
rsync -av -e ssh /var/lib/elog/logbooks/ elog.remote.de:/var/lib/elog/logbooks/ |
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Re: Synchronization using https, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Feb 13 15:36:08 2007
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| Marcus Hauser wrote: | Would it be possible to use rsync to syncronise two elogd servers on different servers via secure synchronization on the file level?
E.g.
rsync -av -e ssh /var/lib/elog/logbooks/ elog.remote.de:/var/lib/elog/logbooks/ |
Do do this, you have to do the following:
- Stop both elogd servers on each side
- Do the rsync
- Restart the elogd servers
This is necessary because an elogd server does not rescan the database files unless it's restarted. Note that you only can synchronize on a day level. Like if in a single day new entries are made on both sides, you have a conflict. This is not the case if you do the internal elogd synchronization, because this works on an entry level (actually that was the reason why this internal synchronization was invented). So new entries on both sides which were made as the same day will be merged intelligently. |
ELOG Crash by many email address, posted by An Thai on Fri Jan 12 15:28:46 2007 
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Hello,
when I try to set above 112 email addresses in
"Email All = ..."
the Elog service will crash with the error ntdll.dll or memory addresses x0000000.
This problem does not happen when I reduce the number of email addresses.
Have you had the same problem? |
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Re: ELOG Crash by many email address, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Jan 16 23:01:30 2007
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| An Thai wrote: | Hello,
when I try to set above 112 email addresses in
"Email All = ..."
the Elog service will crash with the error ntdll.dll or memory addresses x0000000.
This problem does not happen when I reduce the number of email addresses.
Have you had the same problem? |
I fixed that crash in the current version, but there is actually a limit of 100 email addresses. So anyhow you won't get the 12 ones above 100. I will try to increase that limit in the next version of elog. |
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Re: ELOG Crash by many email address, posted by Grant Jeffcote on Tue Feb 6 18:19:57 2007
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| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
| An Thai wrote: | Hello,
when I try to set above 112 email addresses in
"Email All = ..."
the Elog service will crash with the error ntdll.dll or memory addresses x0000000.
This problem does not happen when I reduce the number of email addresses.
Have you had the same problem? |
I fixed that crash in the current version, but there is actually a limit of 100 email addresses. So anyhow you won't get the 12 ones above 100. I will try to increase that limit in the next version of elog. |
Hi Stefan,
I'm also having a problem in the latest version with Elog crashing with multiple email addresses.
I am using 'MOptions' for email list selection using the execute shell script to send a predefined list (ie. the email list is in a text file not in the Elog config).
It seems when the list contains exactly 9 addresses it causes Elog to crash with a failure similar to An's, any less or any more and they are sent fine? Also when certain combinations of multiple list selections are made the Elog process will also crash? I am running the Elog process as an application (ie. not as a service, as per An's workaround) as it's the only way I can get the -x switch to work with Windows, this means the Elog daemon has to be manually restarted. Running WinXP SP2.
Any suggestions?
Thx |
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