We have about 10 logbooks running on the same Elog that all get fair use. Many people have turned off new entry emails because they were filling up inboxes, but are still interested in what's new. I saw the option to add "?last=1" to the start page, although I'm afraid using it might cause confusion over how to get to the older posts.

I was trying to figure out a way of creating a "digest" of sorts, a list of entry subjects posted in the past day or week, something similar to what's generated by "?last=1?mode=threaded", but for every logbook (similar layout to the selection page with nested logbooks). This could either be a page, or a regular email.

Is there way to generate such a cross-logbook page? What about a scheduled email formatted based on a given filter?

PS: The elog has been invaluable to us, a big thanks to all involved!

What we do is use the RSS feed of elog. This gives you nice summaries without going through your email inbox. Most browsers have RSS readers, there are also tons of stand-alone programs for that. Attached is a screenshot from the Google Reader subscribed to this logbook and to the "contributions' logbook. You see nice one-line summaries, you can expand them, and you can go directly to the logbook if you click on the arrow. The second image is from the Firefox using what they call "live bookmarks", but it's basically a RSS reader.

To make this work, I installed the RSS extension of Google Chrome (Firefox has this under "Bookmarks"/"Subscribe to this page"), then go to the elog page, then click on the RSS icon, then clicked on "Subscribe to this" via Google Reader. Just a few clicks.

Hope this is what you want.

- Stefan

 Perfect! I didn't not know there was RSS support. I will probably use something like rss2email, but this is exactly what I needed. Thanks!

Hello,

I'm not able to authenticate to a logbook using my text based browser links, so I've started investigating with wget hoping solving the problem one will lead to a solution for the other.  I've seen some examples on how to use wget to parse logbook entries in this forum, but my attempts keep returning the login page.  Any advice would be helpful and appreciated.  Here are a couple of the command line arguments I've tried:

wget --save-cookies cookie.txt --keep-session-cookies -d "http://hostname/LOGBOOK?unamee=YYY&upassword=XXX" -O elog.txt

wget --save-cookies cookie.txt --keep-session-cookies -d --post-data="redit=&uname=YYY&upassword=XXX&remember=1" -e robots=off "http://hostname/LOGBOOK" -O elog.txt

After these executions, my cookies.txt file remains empty.  Running subsequent command with "--load-cookies=cookies.txt" still points me to the login page.

Many Thanks,

Chris 

I've just checked that 'wget --no-check-certificate --save-cookies cookie.txt --keep-session-cookies -d "https://elog-gfa.psi.ch/SLS?uname=uuu&upassword=ppp" -O elog.txt'

created a file cookie.txt. The file contains three lines of data if uname and upassword are a valid login, and it is empty (beside of three comment lines) if they are not a valid login (wrong user or wrong password).

Could it be related to the set-up of your particular logbook?

It is very good to have Kerberos authentication available. It is just the error message which is a bit cryptic.

If you enter your Kerberos password once, and later fail to authenticate with a wrong password, you get:

Kerberos error:
Decrypt integrity check failed.
Please check your Kerberos configuration

That is not really urgent!

Soren

 In the password file, I see several same username, such as:

<user>

    <name>test</name>

    <password encoding="SHA256">iXhH.</password>

    <full_name>test me</full_name>

    <last_logout>Tue Apr 14 14:12:44 2009</last_logout>

    <last_activity>Wed May 19 09:39:32 2010</last_activity>

    <email>maqm@ihep.ac.cn</email>

    <email_notify/>

  </user> 

<user>

    <name>test</name>

    <password encoding="SHA256">iXhH.</password>

    <full_name>test me</full_name>

   <last_logout>0</last_logout>

    <last_activity>0</last_activity>

      <inactive>0</inactive>

    <email>maqm@ihep.ac.cn</email>

    <email_notify/>

  </user> 

<user>

    <name>test</name>

    <password encoding="SHA256">iXhH.</password>

    <full_name>test me</full_name>

    <last_logout>0</last_logout>

    <last_activity>0</last_activity>

      <inactive>0</inactive>

    <email>maqm@ihep.ac.cn</email>

       <email_notify/>

  </user> 

I don't know the reason why eLog can have the same username.

And what should I do to prevent these things happen?

Thanks!

Thanks for reporting that bug. It has been fixed in SVN revision 2404.