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  66314   Tue Apr 14 22:51:15 2009 Warning Simon Pattonsjpatton@lbl.govBug fixAll2.7.6Long cookie content is not handled properly.
I discovered the infinite loop in 2.7.5 which can happen when a cookie's content is longer that the cookie array
designed to hold it. I also note that this issue has been addressed in 2.7.6, but the solution does not appear
to be correct and it can end up completely confusing the cookie extraction.

In 2.7.5 the code was:
    for (i = 0; *p && *p != ';' && *p != '\r' && *p != '\n' ; )
        if (i < (int) sizeof(cookie)-1)
            cookie[i++] = *p++;

While in 2.7.6 is became:
    for (i = 0; *p && *p != ';' && *p != '\r' && *p != '\n';)
        if (i < (int) sizeof(cookie) - 1)
            cookie[i++] = *p++;
        else
            break;

This leaves 'p' pointing to the middle of the cookie's content and I can not see that this is corrected in the loop (sorry if I've missed that).

The solution I used to patch 2.7.5 was the following:
    for (i = 0; *p && *p != ';' && *p != '\r' && *p != '\n' ; ++p)
        if (i < (int) sizeof(cookie)-1)
            cookie[i++] = *p;

which simply truncates the contents of the cookie (which is assumed not to be an elogd cookie) but leaves 'p' in the right place to extract the next one.
  68179   Thu Nov 5 16:59:34 2015 Entry Simon Dästerdaesters@phys.ethz.chBug reportLinuxV3.1.1-b4dPaste figure from Clipboard, CKEditor 4.5.1 and Firefox 42

I tried to paste an Image from Clipboard into the CKEditor 4.5.1. Unfortunatelly, that doesn't work. I used Firefox, version 42. When I  looked in the javascript error console, it reported that "TypeError: b is undefined, ckeditor.js:1139:112". The variable  d.config.filebrowserImageUploadUrl could not be found.

I set the variable in the file ckeditor-config.js in the folder scripts, but that didn't solve the problem. As far as I can tell, Pasting Image from Clipboard does not work in this forum neither, but I don't know whether this is in purpose.

Pasting via the button "Paste from Word" works as it inserts a 64base formated image, but that's not what I'm searching for. Also normal upload of files works fine and puts the file in the correct folder (logbook/year/)

 

 

  68200   Mon Nov 23 10:32:37 2015 Reply Simon Dästerdaesters@phys.ethz.chBug reportLinuxV3.1.1-b4dRe: Paste figure from Clipboard, CKEditor 4.5.1 and Firefox 42

Updating CKeditor did work, thanks for the tip.

  69283   Wed Dec 16 12:41:42 2020 Reply Simon Dästersimon.daester+elog@gmail.comInfoWindowsELOG V3.1.4-a04Re: How to increase TEXT_SIZE to address entry text limit

Hi Illam

You actually have to change the source code of elog and then recompile. Download the code from https://bitbucket.org/ritt/elog/src/master/, change the value of the variable TEXT_SIZE in the file src/elogd.h

Default ist #define TEXT_SIZE 250000

 

Illam Pakkirisamy wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to increase the entry text constraint but not sure how to do this.  Couldn't find it in the documentation or may be I missed it.  Appreciate your help.

Thanks.
Illam

 

 

  1895   Mon Aug 14 11:45:32 2006 Entry Silvia Borghisilvia.borghi@cern.chQuestion  Author in duplicate message
When I ask to duplicate a message, the author of the duplicated message is the one of the original message.
How can I put as author the name of the person that is login?
I tried to use the command Preset on Duplicate Author or Subst on Duplicate Author, but it does not work.

Here is my config:

Preset Author = $long_name
Preset on Duplicate Author = $long_name
Preset on Reply Author = $long_name
Subst on Duplicate Author = $long_name
Locked Attributes = Author
  413   Fri Jul 25 23:56:12 2003 Question Shawn Larsonshawn@larson.netQuestion 2.3.9Need fault-tolerance recommendations for using ELOG for Server Logs
   I would like to implement ELOG as a logbook for our Windows 2000 
servers.  After making the recommendation, my supervisor replied: 

"The problem and perhaps the only problem is what happens when the server 
is down. Electronic log books should be able to replicate from more than 
one source so you can document let’s say from your laptop – and upload to 
the server later."

   Can anyone help me out here with some scenarios to improve fault-
tolerance?  

   Perhaps installing it on multiple servers and synchronizing the data 
and config folders with the NT File Replication Service?  

   Or installing it on one server and each administrator's laptop and 
using Offline Files to synchronize the data?

Any feedback would be appreciated,

Shawn Larson
  68849   Fri Oct 19 08:38:06 2018 Question Sergio Navarretesergionavarrete+elog@gmail.comQuestionWindows3.1.3Logfile not registering entry numbers?

I have configured a logbook with the logfile on, but when a user replies to an entry the line logged goes

Date Time [User@IP] {Logbook} NEW entry #0

How can I make the #0 be the real entry number for the reply?

 

  69449   Thu Dec 16 08:23:22 2021 Reply Sergio Navarretesergionavarrete@gmail.comQuestionWindows3.1.3Re: Logfile not registering entry numbers?

It seems that the latest Windows binary still predates this fix. Will there be a new installer soon? Thanks for your support.

Stefan Ritt wrote:

I finally found some time to fix that bug. Was just that the log file hat #0, the bug should not have had any ohter side effects. Now the logfile is fine.

David Pilgram wrote:

As a regular elog (ab)user, I have seen this behaviour from time to time.  So far as I recall, the cause actually is that a normal entry is looking for the entry in the "Reply to" field of the normal entry in the yymmdda.log file.  When that entry does not exist, then I see a duplicate line of an entry with entry "#0", in emboldened black type.  I did have a screenshot, but cannot find it for now. 

A quick (relative term, that) search usually finds the entry which references the missing "Reply to" line, and editing that, all is well.  I'm not sure how this can happen, but it does.  NB, I'm still on elog 2.9.2 so I don't know how the draft facility works and possibly enhances the possibility of this issue.

 

Note that this is different to the case (rather more frequent) where the entry in  the "In reply to" field is missing.  This causes elog to go into a continuous loop and only the strongest measures  ("kill -9 xxxx in linux) will break this out.  This can happen more frequently as if you delete a thread with a large number (>40?) of entries, elog crashes, but more importantly, hasn't finished the job.  Clicking on the remenents of the thread (which are usually the later entries) causes the endless loop.

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

It looks like you've found a bug in ELOG. I've checked my elog.log and see that all NEW entry lines show "#0".

I've looked into the code: the message is written before the new entry is submitted, and only then the entry ID is defined.
For new entries one would need to make the logging print line later - but that would blow up the code.
The message IDs are correct for saving drafts and editing entries. I'll discuss with Stefan if that should be fixed.
 
Andreas
 
Sergio Navarrete wrote:

I have configured a logbook with the logfile on, but when a user replies to an entry the line logged goes

Date Time [User@IP] {Logbook} NEW entry #0

How can I make the #0 be the real entry number for the reply?

 

 

 

 

 

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