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  69441   Thu Dec 9 10:33:09 2021 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux3.1.4Re: Unclear how to use the command line tool /usr/bin/elog

Have you tried to connect directly to elogd and not going through Apache? 

Jose Caballero wrote:

Thanks for the comments. I will pass them to the admins. 

  69448   Tue Dec 14 21:55:16 2021 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows3.1.4Re: Log4j exploit

ELog does not use the Log4j library so no issue there. If you run a web server like Apache in front of ELog, you however have to check if you use log4j there.

Alan Grant wrote:

Is there any potential impact/concern with the Log4j exploit in Elog applications?

 

 

  69453   Fri Dec 17 12:11:22 2021 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionAll3.1.4-395e101Re: Adjustment of summary columns

You can manually modify the CSS style to adjust column widths. Locate elog.css which resides under elog/themes/default/elog.css, then find the class “.listtitle”, and modify the line

width: 0%;

to something like

width: 10%;

you can play with the width until it suits your needs. After each change, you have to reload the page in the browser to see the effect.

If you only want to change the width of a specific column, add following lines to your elog.css:

.listtitle:nth-child(4) {
  width:30%;
}

where ‘4” is for example the 4th column. You can have several of these statements for different columns.

To hide the text, use the option 'summary lines' as described in the manual.
 

Mariia Fedkevych wrote:
Hi!

Is it possible to manage the column widths on a logbook's summary page one by one?
Also, is it possible to hide the Text column without actually hiding the text body in entries (as Show Text = 0 in elog.cfg does)?

Kind regards,
Mariia

 

  69460   Mon Jan 31 09:10:41 2022 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux3.1.4-3Re: elog@Ubuntu 18.04

Looks like you don't have shared libraries correctly configured on your system. Try "ldconfig" on your system or link elogd statically (google how to do that).

Stefan

Carsten Winkler wrote:

Hello,

I try to start elog at Ubuntu 18.04. When I run sudo /usr/local/sbin/elogd -D -c /usr/local/elog/elogd.cfg I get following error:
/usr/lib/libssl.so.10: version `libssl.so.10' not found (required by /usr/local/sbin/elogd)

I checked following:
ls -l /usr/lib/libssl.so.10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Jan 29 08:24 /usr/lib/libssl.so.10 -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0
ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 424664 Aug 24 18:16 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0

What's going wrong? And how to solve the problem?

Best,
Carsten

 

  69463   Tue Feb 1 15:43:00 2022 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chInfoLinux3.1.4-3Re: Default "Author" when replying to a log entry

As you can see, on this forum the author for replies is correct. This is done via the config option:

Preset on reply Author = $long_name

Jan Just Keijser wrote:

what is the default value for "Author" when replying to a log entry ?  I now see that for each reply to a log entry, the value of "Author" is set to the value of the author of the original entry - this makes it very hard to see which user has replied to a particular log entry, especially when users start replying to replies etc.

This is with elog 3.1.4-3 on CentOS 7

 

  69468   Tue Feb 8 09:14:25 2022 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportLinuxcb3afcd826d26bfRe: make all messages on ubuntu LTS 20.04.03
> /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/stdio2.h:36:10: note: ‘__builtin___sprintf_chk’ output 2 or more bytes (assuming 4097) into a 
> destination of size 4096

Yeah, I like those warnings "up to 4097 bytes written to a buffer of 4096 bytes". And it's even not a security issue, since the source of the data comes from elogd.cfg which only the owner can modify.

Basically this calls to rewrite elog completely with std::string. Maybe one day I retire and have some time for that...

Stefan
  69469   Thu Feb 10 14:02:15 2022 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinuxELOG V3.1.4-395Re: Password File Config Issue

Can you try the "top groups" option, which means putting each logbook into a separate top group as described in the documentation. For us this works well, new users are only added to the right password file. There is however the problem that as admin you might be logged in to several logbooks (as remembered in your browser via cookies), so you might want to log out from all logbooks first (or clear all cookies of elog), then log in to one logbook and add the user there. In worst case you still can modify the password file by hand, they are plain ASCII files. Only the password has to be entered later since it's encrypted.

Stefan

Mark Delaney wrote:

I expanded an elog server from 1 to 3 logbooks. For each logbook there is a separate password file defined. 

When I try to add a new user in one of the 2 new logbooks using config => new user, it adds the user to the password file for the original logbook.

Have verified that access to the logbooks is controlled via the separate password files. If it would help to provide an example of the elogd.cfg or if I need to clarify further, let me know. 

Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks. Mark.

 

  69470   Thu Feb 10 17:32:42 2022 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportLinux3.1.4-2Re: "New User" option does not work when Authentication=Webserver

Thanks for your patch, I committed it.

Stefan

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