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Wed Apr 29 07:52:57 2009

Re: elogd runs by a user but not by root

Dongwook Jang wrote:

Hi,

I really don't understand why elogd cannot run by root but it runs by a user.

I've put elog deamon in /etc/init.d. So it didn't bring up, but it runs if I run it by user interactively.

Thanks,

Dongwook

That's a security issue. If elogd runs under a user and gets hacked, the hacker obtains just the user rights, which can be limited. If it runs under root, the hacker will automatically get root rights, which is bad. Technically, there is no reason why elogd cannot be run as root. Just put

Usr = root

Grp = root

into elogd.cfg.

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Thu Apr 30 08:40:43 2009

Re: elogd runs by a user but not by root

Dongwook Jang wrote:

Hi,

I wonder how others manage this situation because deamons in /etc/init.d is excercuted by root. So I cannot run in /etc/init.d/elogd when the system starts up.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Dongwook

The normal situation is that elogd gets started by root under /etc/init.d/, then the configuration file contains "Usr = elog" and "Grp = elog", so after it has been started as root, the program falls back to the "elog" user, which only has restricted rights.

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Thu Apr 30 08:48:01 2009

Re: Database Like - ELOG Format

mike cianci wrote:

Stefan,

I am using the Database Like - ELOG format and on the list page, the the last two columns (on the right side) are, "Text" and "Attachments (the paperclip)".

Both of which I have deleted from the input page.

Is there anyway to remove them from the List page?

Thanks, Mike

You need:

Show text = 0

Enable Attachments = 0

to supress the text entry box and the attachment field.

Display search = ID, Type, Location, Status

to show only the attributs of interest in the list display (your attributes could be different)

Summary lines = 0

to supress the text in the list display. At the moment, this still shows the paperclip colum, but I want to fix this in the next version.

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Mon May 4 11:50:30 2009

Re: Using preset text files

soren poulsen wrote:

Hi,

I am trying the Preset text option from the documentation: like:

Attributes = Author, Type
Options Type = Network check{1}, System check{2}

{1} Preset text = network.txt
{2} Preset text = system.txt

I have two questions:

1. Where are the preset text files searched from ? I guess I could put them in the logbook (and specify a relative path like in this example) but it appeared only to work when I specifiy an abcolute path. That is even better in my case.

2. How do I specify line feeds in the file ? I tried Linux and Windows new line characters - but I always end up with just one line in my e-log. I would really like a multi-line form.

Soren

Without path, the file must reside in the "scripts" subdirectory.

For the multi-line form, it depends how you want to format your elog entry. If you format in "plain", the simple line breaks are sufficient. If you format in HTML, your preset file must be in HTML as well, so a line break has to be a <br> tag. If you format in ELCode, a simple line break again would be ok.

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Wed May 6 15:30:24 2009

Re: Office 2007 file attachments download as zip due to mime config

Rich Sterling wrote:

Are there any plans to add the new mime extensions to the elogd.c source? (Instead of forcing users to use FireFox or Right click, save-as and rename?

Ok, I added the MIME extensions in ELOG Rev. 2196. The forum runs already the updated version, so can you try with the demo attachments from your entry?

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Wed May 6 15:35:44 2009

Re: Problem Naming Logbooks

mike cianci wrote:

I have a logbook named "Centaur" (instrument name) for a problem log on an instrument and a logbook named "CentaurNewLot" for

a logbook (Database Like - ELOG format) where we would log reagent lot number changes for that instrument.

The problem is that when I name the logbooks, like I have, it screws up the formatting (List page) of the second log book.

If I rename the second logbook something totally unrelated to the first logbook my originally intended formatting returns.

I tried to reproduce your problem but without success. In my case the "CentaurNewLot" looks fine:

so what is different in your case? Can you try with the simple example logbook from the distribution and the add one option after the other to see which one causes the trouble?

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Wed May 6 15:38:10 2009

Re: Mirror Server Funktion

Andreas Wilke wrote:

Ich möchte meine "lokale" ELOG Installation mit einem Server in der Firma synchronisieren.

Dazu habe ich in der entfernten Firewall ein Portmapping auf den ELOG Server in der Firma eingerichtet.

Wenn ich von meiner "lokalen" Maschine im Browser http://meinedomain.dyndns.xx:PORT aufrufe, kann ich auf den ELOG Server zugreifen.

Ich habe in meiner "lokalen" Installation in der Section [global] den Mirror-Server = http://meinedomain.dyndns.xx:PORT angeben.

Beim Synchornisieren bekomme ich jedoch den Hinweis "Fehler beim Zugriff auf entfertes Logbuch".......

Please let's stick to English. Let me try to understand your configuration. You have one elog server running and want to synchronize with itself? That does not work of course, synchronizing is done between two servers (normally on different computers).

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Wed May 6 15:56:10 2009

Re: "Forgot Password?" link not working?

Mike wrote:

I have my site running under apache. I don't have a /elog/ directory.

for example most would do http://www.example.com/elog/ to visit elog

but my site loads at http://www.example.com/