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  1174   Sat Jun 4 12:25:57 2005 Warning Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportLinux2.5.9Re: elog crashes when admin tries to register new users

Heiko Scheit wrote:
When pasting the URL for the registration of new users (with 'Self register = 3') elog
crashes with segmentation fault. I don't have the time currently to give you more
debuging information but maybe you can have a look the same. It crashes after
the user is registered. The Email is sent, too.


I cannot reproduce this problem either. The only difference I see is that I use thunderbird as my email client, where I don't have to copy/paste the activation URL into my browser, but just click on it. If maybe the copy/paste operation adds an additional CR/LF or so, that could be a problem. Can you check again? A stack trace of the crashed elogd would help as well.
  1175   Sat Jun 4 13:06:08 2005 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportAll2.5.9Re: Logbook locking issue

Steve Jones wrote:
Stefan, not a problem. ITMT, any idea how I can manually clear this "lock"? Is it embedded in the logbook itself?


I would recommend to remove the Restrict edit time = 0.5 temporarily from your config file, then edit this entry, the clicking Back instead of Submit (since you don't really want to edit the entry). This removes the lock, and you can re-enable the Restrict edit time = 0.5 in the config file.


Quote:
Our eLog is set to create logbook entry locks and after 30minutes prevent one from re-editing an entry, thus forcing a REPLY to be created.

SCENARIO: When an *attempt* is made to edit a logbook after the 30minute timer, one gets the message that EDITING is prevented and to use the browser "Back" button.

PROBLEM: The display now shows that particular entry to be locked, even though the attempt to edit was blocked. It appears that the lock flag is set prior to the "Edit" attempt being blocked and thus the lock flag is never "unset".


I fixed this problem and committed it to CVS. It will be contained in the next release.
  1176   Sat Jun 4 14:00:17 2005 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequest 2.5.8-6Re: password encryption

Alex H wrote:
I have found a little problem with elog. I'am using ELOG V2.5.8-6. When I'am on the logon page,
I type my Login and password and hit "submit", in the bottom of IE, we can show my password without encryption, it can be dangerous. I have made a screenshot to explain my problem better.
Could you fix it for the next release ?
Thanks a lot.
Alex


I switched the login page to the HTTP "POST" method, where arguments are not passed in the URL.

The new version is under CVS. Can you try if the behaviour is better now? I upgraded also the ELOG forum, so you can try there as well.
  1181   Mon Jun 6 15:17:50 2005 Warning Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportAll2.6.0-betaRe: elog & firefox pipelining

Emiliano Gabrielli wrote:
Having the Firefox pipelining feature enabled makes elog unable to correctly show avery attachment in the full view when a quite large number of them is present..
disabling pipelining makes all works fine again


As is said:

Pipelining is an experimental feature, designed to improve page-load performance, that is unfortunately not well supported by some web servers and proxies.

So what do you expect Tongue

I have not checked in detail, but it seems that the browser fires off several requests in parallel, one for each image. This can only be handled by a multi-threaded server, which elog is not (yet). What is more an issue for elog in relation to multi-threading is that one long request blocks all other users. So if I do a synchronize for example from home, the server can be nonresponsive for a minute or two. I have some plans for making it multi-threaded, but as you can imagine this is not so simple to do in a portable way.
  1191   Mon Jun 13 17:45:47 2005 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux Re: Moving eLog from Server to Server...

Charles Duncan wrote:
I am moving my eLog system from one server to another.
I moved all my log books, my /etc/elog.conf, and /usr/share/elog/elog.pwd file. Did I miss anything?
The Logbooks come up fine on the eLog list, but when I try to access them I get invalid user name...
Do I have to do some sort of conversion to move the pwd file from one server to another?
Or should I try using the sync command for the move? does sync also move the pwd file??


Of course you have to start elogd after you copied all files over, but I presume you did that. The password file itself does not need any conversion, it should work on both hosts fine. Cloning an elog logbook (via the "-C <url>") flag, does copy the password file if you enter "yes" to the according question. Have you checked the file permission of the password file? Maybe the user name elogd is running under has no read access to it.
  1195   Thu Jun 16 22:37:06 2005 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportLinux2.5.9Re: reverse sort option does not work for quick filter
I finally found some time to fix this problem. The fix is under CVS.
  1197   Fri Jun 17 22:08:28 2005 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux2.6.0Re: Cloning

Gerfried Kumbartzki wrote:
The elogd.cfg has a read and write passwd set. Any user can access the logbook, read and write after providing the proper user id and password.


This might be your problem. Try to temporarily remove the read and write password from you config file, then do the cloning, then put it back. Cloning works with a passowd file, but I haven't tested it with read/write passwords.


Gerfried Kumbartzki wrote:
Beside missing the real stuff everything ends up in the users home directory. I would like it in the general area (/usr/local/elog for instance).


The cloning works in the current directory. So just go to /usr/local/elog and start "elogd -C ..." from there. Alternatively, copy your whole /usr/local/elog tree to the server manually. The "Synchronize" button then works again only with a password file. You need a "Mirror user = xxx" option in that case.
  1198   Fri Jun 17 22:33:29 2005 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportLinux2.5.9Re: elog crashes when admin tries to register new users

Heiko Scheit wrote:
The following appended after the base (!) URL results in a segmentation fault
?cmd=Activate&new_user_name=test1&new_full_name=Test1

It works fine, if a specific logbook is given. So
http://my.ho.st/?cmd=Activate&new_user_name=test1&new_full_name=Test1
is not OK, while
http://my.ho.st/myLogBook/?cmd=Activate&new_user_name=test1&new_full_name=Test1
is OK.


Thanks for that info. It helped me debugging things. The problem is that the "activation" URL does not contain a logbook if there is a global password file. I have never tried that so of course it crashes Crying

I tried to fix this and committed the changes to CVS. Can you try with that version?
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