Cloning, posted by Gerfried Kumbartzki on Fri Jun 17 20:30:53 2005
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Elog is installed on a laptop (Redhat Linux 2.4.20-8) for quite a while. I like to have a "base" of that logbook on a server and keep it
in sync. Mirroring seem to be the perfect solution. For that I updated to elog v2.6.0 yesterday.
The server is an Alpha running Linux Redhat 7.1. I compiled from elog-latest.tar and installed elog in the 'same' locations as on the laptop.
Created a user elog and a group elog, put elogd.cfg, themes, logbooks ... in /usr/local/elog, owned by elog. Started the elogd, tested,
all seems to work. 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.
Next I wanted to clone the logbooks from the laptop to the server. As superuser I can start elogd -v -C http://latop:8080, but get stuck right away with "Cannot contact elogd at http://laptop:8080/"
As user it works as follows:
Remote configuration successfully received.
Option "Mirror server = http://wotan.rutgers.edu:8080" added to config file.
Logbook directory "logbooks" successfully created.
Created directory "demo"
Indexing logbook "demo" ... Found empty logbook "demo"
Created directory "tfexp"
Indexing logbook "tfexp" ... Found empty logbook "tfexp"
Retrieve remote logbook entries? [y]/n:
Retrieving entries from "http://wotan.rutgers.edu:8080/demo"...
ID1: Remote entry received
Retrieving entries from "http://wotan.rutgers.edu:8080/tfexp"...
Error accessing remote logbook
Cloning finished. Check elogd.cfg and start the server normally.
Allthough, tfexp contains a number of entries all owned by elog like the entry in demo.
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 other option is to use synchronize after changing [global] from with in the browser. Start elogd, open the logbook and click on config,
enter a Mirror server = http://laptop:8080/
Clicking synchronize give "Error accessing remote logbook"
Again, the logbooks are on both machines in /usr/local/elog/logbooks (owner:group elog:elog). The tfexp in this case is passwd protected.
Any user can access the elogs in both machines, locally or remote. But, I'm unable to synchronize the two.
Maybe somebody can point me in the right direction.
Thank's Gerfried |
Re: Cloning, posted by Gerfried Kumbartzki on Wed Jun 22 18:34:18 2005
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Thank you for the suggestions; I commented the read and write passwd in elogd.cfg out and only then I was able to clone
(elogd -v -C http://laptop:8080) the logbook to the new server.
But this is only part of the story. The logbook on the labtop is owned by the
default user elog and default group elog, that is needed to start up the elogd. Only a user "elog" can do the cloning, unless temporarily the owner ship in /usr/local/elog is changed. I made it work by temporarily changing the owner ship on both machines, did the cloning, changed back to owner elog, started elogd and all was running.
I setup synchronizing and here too it works only if the read passwd in elogd.cfg is commented out.
Sync works fine from the RedHat linux laptop (rpm installed), but crashes the elogd on the alpha Linux machine (compiled from src) most of the time. elogd hast to be restarted and the sync had not finished.
So for now I settled to do the synchronize only from the laptop but have to remove the read passwd each time. That is tolerable but not
convenient.
Here I have another question: My Elog is passwd protected, encrypted passwd in elogd.cfg (read and write). When connecting to the elog the window
pops up asking for a user name and the passwd. I donot remember exactly, what was done to set name and passwd. But I find it "strange" that the user name can be anything as long as the passwd is right to access the ELog.
I think I have to learn more about the whole user and passwd protection schema.
Thanks again
Gerfried |
openssl - openssl/ssl.h, posted by Christoph Kukulies on Tue Nov 9 18:05:00 2010
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Nasty nasty. I prepared a longish post and only because I forgot to click an Icon of choice, all my message is lost.
Thus in short:
openssl/ssl.h isn't there.
I assume I got to get it from openssl.org.
But where do I put it in the compilation tree?
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Christoph
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Re: openssl - openssl/ssl.h, posted by Christoph Kukulies on Thu Nov 11 11:08:32 2010
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| Christoph Kukulies wrote: |
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Nasty nasty. I prepared a longish post and only because I forgot to click an Icon of choice, all my message is lost.
Thus in short:
openssl/ssl.h isn't there.
I assume I got to get it from openssl.org.
But where do I put it in the compilation tree?
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Christoph
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Replying to my own post: libdev-ssl wasn't installed.
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Christoph
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Don't see login page - Self register = 1, posted by Christoph Kukulies on Wed Nov 24 10:40:41 2010
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Hi,
I'm trying to configure Elog such that users can self-register. But no luck so far.
I cannot get the login screen. I'm connecting to a logbook (and I can do this without logging in).
Shouldn't I get a screen to login/register?
Here is my elogd.cfg:
[global]
Port=8880
Password file = /usr/local/elog/logbooks/passwd
SMTP host = smtp.mydomain.de
SMTP user = kuku
Logfile = /usr/local/elog/logs/elog.log
Admin user = kuku other
Login user = abc def ghi
SSL=1
URL=https://www.mydomain.de:8880/
Self register = 1
Menu commands = List, New, Edit, Reply, Duplicate, Find, Config, Logout, Help
Guest menu commands = List, Find, Login, Help
Admin user = me@mydomain.de
[Demo]
Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4neBt9xnX44YYQay15Yu9PyLC9hK6sifI9
Attributes = Author, Status
[Linux]
Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4next9PnXShhQQa515Yu9PyLC9hK6sifI9
Attributes = Author, Status
[Windows]
Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4neBt9PnXShhQQay15YuxPyLC9hK6sifI9
Attributes = Author, Status |
Forum quirks, posted by Christoph Kukulies on Wed Nov 24 11:55:57 2010
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I just got a Proxy error from your site: When I clicked on the change password link that was sent to my email, I entered my new password (which was the same that I believed to have used before) and after submitting this form, I got the Proxy error. Also I find that I can never login with my once set password. Is it the Email or username on gives in the login field? Other quirk: I never can preview my post. When I click preview, nothing happens. Submitting worked today but yesterday I was unable to submit a post. I clicked several times on the submit button and nothing happened. -- Christoph |
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Re: Forum quirks, posted by Christoph Kukulies on Wed Nov 24 16:30:31 2010
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| Christoph Kukulies wrote: |
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I just got a Proxy error from your site: When I clicked on the change password link that was sent to my email, I entered my new password (which was the same that I believed to have used before) and after submitting this form, I got the Proxy error. Also I find that I can never login with my once set password. Is it the Email or username on gives in the login field? Other quirk: I never can preview my post. When I click preview, nothing happens. Submitting worked today but yesterday I was unable to submit a post. I clicked several times on the submit button and nothing happened. -- Christoph
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It seems that the submit/preview problem is solved. Submit/Preview buttons at the bottom of the page seem to work on the attachments only.
Sorry for the oversight on my side.
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Christoph
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Re: Don't see login page - Self register = 1, posted by Christoph Kukulies on Wed Nov 24 16:36:21 2010
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to configure Elog such that users can self-register. But no luck so far.
> > I cannot get the login screen. I'm connecting to a logbook (and I can do this without logging in).
> > Shouldn't I get a screen to login/register?
> >
> > Here is my elogd.cfg:
> > [global]
> > Port=8880
> > Password file = /usr/local/elog/logbooks/passwd
> > SMTP host = smtp.mydomain.de
> > SMTP user = kuku
> > Logfile = /usr/local/elog/logs/elog.log
> > Admin user = kuku other
> > Login user = abc def ghi
> > SSL=1
> > URL=https://www.mydomain.de:8880/
> > Self register = 1
> > Menu commands = List, New, Edit, Reply, Duplicate, Find, Config, Logout, Help
> > Guest menu commands = List, Find, Login, Help
> >
> > Admin user = me@mydomain.de
> > [Demo]
> > Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4neBt9xnX44YYQay15Yu9PyLC9hK6sifI9
> > Attributes = Author, Status
> > [Linux]
> > Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4next9PnXShhQQa515Yu9PyLC9hK6sifI9
> > Attributes = Author, Status
> > [Windows]
> > Admin Password = 9lVlUsigs4neBt9PnXShhQQay15YuxPyLC9hK6sifI9
> > Attributes = Author, Status
>
> You should not mix "Password file" with "Admin Password". Either use one or the other system, but not both. So
> remove "Admin Password", and delete all cookies in your browser, then you should see the login screen.
This is now my config - it still doesn't work. BTW, the passwd file is empty (despite of the xml header).
[global]
Port=8880
Password file = /usr/local/elog/logbooks/passwd
SMTP host = smtp.mydomain.de
SMTP user = kuku
Logfile = /usr/local/elog/logs/elog.log
Logging Level = 3
Admin user = kuku
Login user = abc def ghi
SSL=1
URL=https://myhost.mydomain:8880/
Self register = 1
Menu commands = List, New, Edit, Reply, Duplicate, Find, Config, Logout, Help
Guest menu commands = List, Find, Login, Help
[Demo]
Attributes = Author, Status
[Linux]
Attributes = Author, Status
[Windows]
Attributes = Author, Status
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Thanks for helping.
Christoph |
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