People are keeping me asking for a Windows installer. Is this now properly working, also under Windows 11? If you send me the executable, I could upload it to the distribution.

Do people have to install cygwin before they can use it, or will the executable runn just by itself? If I understand correctly, the MinGW package would not require a runtime library, right?

Best,
Stefan

> People are keeping me asking for a Windows installer

My Windows-11 laptop may free up in January and I could look at builds of elog and midas, but I know nothing about making Windows installers...

K.O.

Dear all, 

is there an instruction document how to exacly host the ELOG on a server for example a raspberry pi?

Wishes, 

M

Just read the manual: https://elog.psi.ch/elog/adminguide.html

> is there an instruction document how to exacly host the ELOG on a server for example a raspberry pi?

would be same as on any other linux machine, in the nutshell:

- install generic raspbian (R-12 is current version)
- setup the network
- setup apache2 https with automatic https certificate renewal using certbot
- setup apache2 redirect to elogd port 8080
- setup elogd on port localhost:8080

some of this is written up here:
https://daq00.triumf.ca/DaqWiki/index.php/Ubuntu#Install_apache_httpd_proxy_for_midas_and_elog

in theory you can run elogd without apache https proxy, but I find computer security
people are quite happy when I tell them that I run apache https with SSLlabs score "A+".

also I believe elogd does not support automatic https certificate renewal, running
it behind apache https solves that.

another consideration, specifically for RaspberryPi, they use SD flash for storage,
and unlike SATA and NVMe SSDs, SD flash does not have SMART to report flash read,
write and wear-out problems. So you may run into unexpected SD flash failures. We do.

do daily/hourly rsync to backup/archive storage to avoid total data loss if this happens.

also be aware that SD flash is very slow, compared to normal PC SSDs. read speed is not too
bad, but write speed is quite abysmal.

as solution to this, RPi5 can have a PCIe/NVMe dongle, you can try that instead of SD flash.

K.O.

Dear Andreas and Stefan,

First of all thank you for the template for a checklist. I have created my own version of it and the HTML looks fine. For comparison, I temporarily also included the shiftcheck template provided by Stefan to my ELOG.

However, I have the same problem as JD. After submitting the data in shiftcheck, I receive the error "Cannot open file passwords.pwd: No such file or directory" and the URL is http://localhost:8085/ShiftCheck/?cmd=Submit&suppress=1&unm=&upwd=&Author=Marcel+Zauner-Wieczorek&edit_id=&D=1&M=4&Shift=Morning&a4=&h2=&a5=&a6=&c1=&c2=&c3=&c4=&c5=&bb1=&cr1=&cr9=&cr18=&cr20=&cr21=&cr23=&cr24="

I have tried to include the path of the password file in the cfg file (using "", <>, <"">, and only the path name), but then the elogd.exe won't start at all unless I change it back to the simple "Password file = passwords.pwd".

Here is an excerpt of my config file:

****

[global]
port = 8085
 

Password file = passwords.pwd
Login expiration = 1
Admin user = Marcel
Login user = Marcel

Self register = 1

Group General = ShiftCheck
Group Gas phase instruments = Checklist_MARGA

Restrict edit time = 1
Admin restrict edit time = 0
Autosave = 60

[ShiftCheck]
Comment = Shift Check List

Attributes = Author, D, M, Y, Shift, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, c1, c2, c3, c4, c5, c6, c7, bb1, cr1, cr2, cr3, cr4, cr5, cr6, cr7, cr8, cr9, cr10, cr11, cr12, cr13, cr14, cr15, cr16, cr17, cr18, cr19, cr20, cr21, cr22, cr23, cr24, cr25, cr26, sw1, sw2, sw3, sw4, sw5
Quick filter = Shift, Author
Options Shift = Morning, Evening, Night

Enable attachments = 0
Show text = 0
Custom new form = shiftcheck.html
Custom edit form = shiftcheck.html
Custom display form = shiftcheck.html
List after submit = 1

 

[Checklist_MARGA]
Comment = Check List for MARGA

Date Format = %d.%m.%Y
Time Format = %d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S

Reverse sort = 1

Attributes = Author, D, M, Y, On, DP2h, T_SJAC, T_heat, EC_An, EC_Cat, IonBal, IS_Cat_Ae, IS_An_Ae, IS_Cat_Ga, IS_An_Ga, P1, P2, Err, Com

Quick filter = Author

Enable attachments = 0
Show text = 0
Custom new form = checklist_MARGA.html
Custom edit form = checklist_MARGA.html
Custom display form = checklist_MARGA.html
List after submit = 1
***

I am actually confused about the passwords.pwd file. I have successfully created several users with passwords and I can use their credentials to log into the different labbooks. However, none of these users (let along their (encrypted) passwords) turn up in the passwords.pwd file. I don't know where ELOG saves these information, but it's apparently not the passwords.pwd file that is defined in the cfg file and that I have access to.

I hope that someone can help me with this issue. Otherwise, I would omit the password function within ELOG and find an external solution for a password protection.

Cheers,

Marcel

Please excuse my double-posting. But my first entry was not displayed on the forum and I haven't received feedback yet. I think this is because I responded to an entry that was still in draft mode, whereas my entry was a "normal" entry. My initial entry has the Message ID: 69870 and was in reply to: 68348

***

Dear Andreas and Stefan,

First of all thank you for the template for a checklist. I have created my own version of it and the HTML looks fine. For comparison, I temporarily also included the shiftcheck template provided by Stefan to my ELOG.

However, I have the same problem as JD. After submitting the data in shiftcheck, I receive the error "Cannot open file passwords.pwd: No such file or directory" and the URL is http://localhost:8085/ShiftCheck/?cmd=Submit&suppress=1&unm=&upwd=&Author=Marcel+Zauner-Wieczorek&edit_id=&D=1&M=4&Shift=Morning&a4=&h2=&a5=&a6=&c1=&c2=&c3=&c4=&c5=&bb1=&cr1=&cr9=&cr18=&cr20=&cr21=&cr23=&cr24="

I have tried to include the path of the password file in the cfg file (using "", <>, <"">, and only the path name), but then the elogd.exe won't start at all unless I change it back to the simple "Password file = passwords.pwd".

Here is an excerpt of my config file:

    ****

    [global]
    port = 8085
     

    Password file = passwords.pwd
    Login expiration = 1
    Admin user = Marcel
    Login user = Marcel

    Self register = 1

    Group General = ShiftCheck
    Group Gas phase instruments = Checklist_MARGA

    Restrict edit time = 1
    Admin restrict edit time = 0
    Autosave = 60

    [ShiftCheck]
    Comment = Shift Check List

    Attributes = Author, D, M, Y, Shift, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, c1, c2, c3, c4, c5, c6, c7, bb1, cr1, cr2, cr3, cr4, cr5, cr6, cr7, cr8, cr9, cr10, cr11, cr12, cr13, cr14, cr15, cr16, cr17, cr18, cr19, cr20, cr21, cr22, cr23, cr24, cr25, cr26, sw1, sw2, sw3, sw4, sw5
    Quick filter = Shift, Author
    Options Shift = Morning, Evening, Night

    Enable attachments = 0
    Show text = 0
    Custom new form = shiftcheck.html
    Custom edit form = shiftcheck.html
    Custom display form = shiftcheck.html
    List after submit = 1

    [Checklist_MARGA]
    Comment = Check List for MARGA

    Date Format = %d.%m.%Y
    Time Format = %d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S

    Reverse sort = 1

    Attributes = Author, D, M, Y, On, DP2h, T_SJAC, T_heat, EC_An, EC_Cat, IonBal, IS_Cat_Ae, IS_An_Ae, IS_Cat_Ga, IS_An_Ga, P1, P2, Err, Com

    Quick filter = Author

    Enable attachments = 0
    Show text = 0
    Custom new form = checklist_MARGA.html
    Custom edit form = checklist_MARGA.html
    Custom display form = checklist_MARGA.html
    List after submit = 1
    ***

I am actually confused about the passwords.pwd file. I have successfully created several users with passwords and I can use their credentials to log into the different labbooks. However, none of these users (let along their (encrypted) passwords) turn up in the passwords.pwd file. I don't know where ELOG saves these information, but it's apparently not the passwords.pwd file that is defined in the cfg file and that I have access to.

I hope that someone can help me with this issue. Otherwise, I would omit the password function within ELOG and find an external solution for a password protection.

Cheers,

Marcel

Jul 17 20:36:21 elog kernel: elogd[179095]: segfault at 7ffda4d82000 ip 00007f97033a1406 sp 00007ffda4d58c38 error 6 in libc-2.28.so[7f9703374000+1cd000]

Elog version ELOG V3.1.5-30ada1df 

Running on a Rehdat 8 enterprise server

compiled with a Makefile change :: change -Wno-unused-result to -Wno-unused-value

Wondering if anyone has been seeing this?