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  1982   Wed Oct 11 16:08:04 2006 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionLinux2.6.2-1714Re: Turn off smileys?

Yoshio Imai wrote:
Other suggestion: What about going the other way round and making this
\?)
the smiley and this
?)
the usual question in brackets? If there was a special sequence to announce the unusual case (i.e. the smiley), I think less people would complain about having unwanted conversions ...


I thought also about that, but people who are use to bulletin boards or instant messaging have the common knowledge that a ;) gives a smiley, not a \;). While it would work with the smiley button, which could insert anything, the "other" half of the people who are used to the standard smileys would complain. So I hope that ?-) is acceptable by both sides.
  1981   Wed Oct 11 16:03:52 2006 Reply Yoshio ImaiQuestionLinux2.6.2-1714Re: Turn off smileys?

Stefan Ritt wrote:
Put a \ in front of anything which is turned into a smiley, so ;) gets converted into Wink, but \;) does not get converted

Other suggestion: What about going the other way round and making this
\?)
the smiley and this
?)
the usual question in brackets? If there was a special sequence to announce the unusual case (i.e. the smiley), I think less people would complain about having unwanted conversions ...
  1980   Wed Oct 11 11:47:29 2006 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportWindows2.6.2-1722Re: Elog v2.6.2-1722 appears to have broken "Suppress default [0|1|2|3]" option on Windows XP box

Gregory M. Caughey wrote:
2.) However, email notifications will be sent under all circumstances regardless of which parameter selected.


Thanks for reporting that problem. I just implemented Suppress email on edit and this could have had some side effect. I tried however to reproduce your problem and was not able to. Trying the "minimal" configuration file, the email notifications were suppressed if the check box was checked, or if Suppress default = 3. Can you check if it works with a minimal config file, and if yes, what option in your "full" config file causes this effect?
  1979   Wed Oct 11 11:37:03 2006 Disagree Gregory M. Caugheycaugheygm@aol.comBug reportWindows2.6.2-1722Elog v2.6.2-1722 appears to have broken "Suppress default [0|1|2|3]" option on Windows XP box
Hi Stefan!

Been running Elog-2.6.2-1714 successfully for a while and yesterday decided to download and experiment with the latest Elog-2.6.2-1722 build. I want to report a possible bug involving the "Suppress default" option when running build 2.6.2-1722 on a Windows XP laptop. I installed 2.6.2-1722 into a development folder and copied my current production 'elogd.cfg' file and other custom files to the development folder. Test postings produced the following results:

1.) The "Suppress default [0|1|2|3]" option causes the [] Suppress Email notification to display or not display as expected.

2.) However, email notifications will be sent under all circumstances regardless of which parameter selected.

3.) Downgrading to Elog-2.6.2-1714 produces the expected behavior.

I am running Windows XP with all current upgrades and security patches and Internet Explorer 7 - version: 7.0.5700.6

Regards, Greg
  1978   Wed Oct 11 08:18:14 2006 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportOther2.6.2-1714Re: SVN1723 (was SVN1714) will not run in 'daemon" mode on Solaris8

Steve Jones wrote:
There are also strange system calls that differ, and I thought it might be due to the setuid(60001) -nobody- but the the non-daemn mode also sets to nobody and works fine.


The elogd program opens the port (which might be below 1024 and thus needs privileges), then either become daemon or not, then changes to the user and group specified in elogd.cfg. So this behaviour should be the same on both cases.



Steve Jones wrote:
I just compiled SVN1723 and tried the generic elogd.cfg -- of course *that works!*. Something in my complex config that causes elog to barf when it is attempting to fork the daemon process.


That's a good starting point. Take your config file, strip one option after the other, and see which is the offending one. This helps us tracking down the problem.



Steve Jones wrote:
I have no idea what "/var/run/syslog_door" is.


I have not either. But one thing which is different in the daemon mode that all output is redirected to the syslog facility via the function call redirect_to_syslog();. This routine was not written by myself so I don't know 100% what it's doing, just under Linux it works fine. Try to outcomment this function and try again.
  1977   Wed Oct 11 00:19:05 2006 Reply Steve Jonessteve.jones@freescale.comBug reportOther2.6.2-1714Re: SVN1723 (was SVN1714) will not run in 'daemon" mode on Solaris8

Steve Jones wrote:

Steve Jones wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Steve Jones wrote:
On Solaris, SVN1714 will not go into daemon mode. Running the compiled version under TRUSS (which provides a dump of every system call) and shows precisely where elog is failing. I have attached two TRUSS outputs: one where it errors out and the other where it runs but "interactively". Both runs are as root, simply one with and one without the "-D"


The "one where it errors out" does not look like an error. It does the "fork()" at the end and the main thread ends, that's how it's supposed to be.




Quote:
Ok, I got it. I've attached the TRUSS output where we follow the fork. It appears that elogd cannot open any of the specified files then gives up. What was throwing me is no error output, even to STDERR. When I run the same but without the -D flag the files are opened fine.

There are also strange system calls that differ, and I thought it might be due to the setuid(60001) -nobody- but the the non-daemn mode also sets to nobody and works fine.



Quote:

I just compiled SVN1723 and tried the generic elogd.cfg -- of course *that works!*. Something in my complex config that causes elog to barf when it is attempting to fork the daemon process. To me the TRUSS output indicates that elog can't seem to find any logfile to work on -- very bizarre.

Stefan, you might find this interesting. I went ahead and removed all references to pre-existing logbook directories and restarted with TRUSS tracing the program. Elogd managed to go into daemon mode but the minute it received a request it generated a segmentation fault. Notice that even though elog could not open the logging directory it went ahead and went into polling mode. I have no idea what "/var/run/syslog_door" is. Working on isolating.
4190:   seteuid(60001)                                  = 0
4190:   stat("/sysadm/www/elog/cr-elogd.cfg", 0xFFBC9558) = 0
4190:   stat("/usr/lib/locale/english/english.so.2", 0xFFBC85C0) Err#2 ENOENT
4190:   stat("/sysadm/www/elog/resources/eloglang.", 0xFFBC9348) Err#2 ENOENT
4190:   listen(3, 5, 1)                                 = 0
4190:   fstat(4, 0xFFBC9318)                            = 0
4190:   time()                                          = 1160518513
4190:   getpid()                                        = 4190 [1]
4190:   putmsg(4, 0xFFBC89D0, 0xFFBC89C4, 0)            = 0
4190:   open("/var/run/syslog_door", O_RDONLY)          = 7
4190:   door_info(7, 0xFFBC8908)                        = 0
4190:   getpid()                                        = 4190 [1]
4190:   door_call(7, 0xFFBC88F0)                        = 0
4190:   close(7)                                        = 0
4190:   open("crlogbooks/logs/elogaccess.log", O_RDWR|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0644) Err#2 ENOENT
4190:   poll(0xFFBC7640, 1, 1000)                       = 0
4190:   poll(0xFFBC7640, 1, 1000)       (sleeping...)
4190:   poll(0xFFBC7640, 1, 1000)                       = 0
4190:   poll(0xFFBC7640, 1, 1000)                       = 0
4190:   poll(0xFFBC7640, 1, 1000)                       = 1
4190:   accept(3, 0xFFBEF300, 0xFFBC9830, 1)            = 7
4190:   time()                                          = 1160518516
4190:   poll(0xFFBC7640, 1, 6000)                       = 1
4190:   recv(7, " G E T   /   H T T P / 1".., 100000, 0) = 610
4190:       Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS  %pc = 0x0001EA1C
4190:         siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0xFF3EFE30
4190:       Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default]
4190:         siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0xFF3EFE30
4190:           *** process killed ***


  1976   Tue Oct 10 23:29:53 2006 Reply Steve Jonessteve.jones@freescale.comBug reportOther2.6.2-1714Re: SVN1723 (was SVN1714) will not run in 'daemon" mode on Solaris8

Steve Jones wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Steve Jones wrote:
On Solaris, SVN1714 will not go into daemon mode. Running the compiled version under TRUSS (which provides a dump of every system call) and shows precisely where elog is failing. I have attached two TRUSS outputs: one where it errors out and the other where it runs but "interactively". Both runs are as root, simply one with and one without the "-D"


The "one where it errors out" does not look like an error. It does the "fork()" at the end and the main thread ends, that's how it's supposed to be.




Quote:
Ok, I got it. I've attached the TRUSS output where we follow the fork. It appears that elogd cannot open any of the specified files then gives up. What was throwing me is no error output, even to STDERR. When I run the same but without the -D flag the files are opened fine.

There are also strange system calls that differ, and I thought it might be due to the setuid(60001) -nobody- but the the non-daemn mode also sets to nobody and works fine.



Quote:

I just compiled SVN1723 and tried the generic elogd.cfg -- of course *that works!*. Something in my complex config that causes elog to barf when it is attempting to fork the daemon process. To me the TRUSS output indicates that elog can't seem to find any logfile to work on -- very bizarre.
  1975   Tue Oct 10 23:27:41 2006 Agree Steve Jonessteve.jones@freescale.comQuestionAll2.6.2-1714Re: "Supress Email Notification" checkbox

Stefan Ritt wrote:
Suppress email on edit has been implemented in the current SVN revision just similar to the Suppress default flag having possible values of 0, 1, 2 and 3.



Works like a champ! Thanks
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