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    icon5.gif   Re: Q: On Solaris 8, eLog not honoring USR= and GRP= cfg file directives?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Aug 12 21:37:29 2004 
> I'm not sure if this is a configuration problem or a bug, but running
> v2.5.4subver1.413, elogd runs as user ROOT (UID0) even though the following
> is in the elogd.cfd file:
> 
> Usr = nobody
> Grp = essadm
> 
> All other directives added to the cfg file work, so I know eLog is reading
> the cfg file.  
> 
> The elogd binary *is not* setuid 0.

I could not reproduce your problem with the current version (Revision 1.460)
under Linux. I guess you made sure that user "nobody" and group "essadm" exist.
Try to run elogd interactively, if you see any error message (without "-D"
flag). In the most recent version (1.460), I added some more debugging code
which tells you if elogd successfully fell back to another user, if you use the
"-v" (verbose) flag.

If all that does not help, I guess it's some peculiarity of Solaris. Maybe
someone else using Solaris has some idea. All elogd does is a call to 

setuser("<user>");

I see no reason why this should not work on Solaris.
icon5.gif   Admin rights lost after upgrade 2.5.2 to 2.5.4, posted by nait tauh on Wed Aug 18 11:12:56 2004 
The upgrade was done by just replacing elogd from 2.5.2 to 2.5.4 from the rpm.

Somehow elogd 2.5.4 treat all users as normal user. When clicking on
"config". All admin users has no "change elogd.cfg" button. Revert back to
2.5.2 OK.

Is there anything I need to change to upgrade other than replaceing elogd?
Clearing the cookies didn't help.

Thanks,
.nait.
icon5.gif   write access for elogd, posted by Dave Becker on Thu Aug 19 06:21:38 2004 
Newly installed elog gives this response when I try to submit a new record:

New entry cannot be written to directory "./logbooks/Linux/" 
Please check that it exists and elogd has write access

I started the daemon.  I've not yet assigned passwords -- just checking
things out.  How can I create this access to my own directory?
icon5.gif   ELOG with stunnel won't show logbook, posted by Bartjan Wattel on Wed Aug 25 13:36:56 2004 
Hi,

I have an ELOG installation on a RedHat linux server, called myserver. I 
can connect to this server with the following entries in the elogd.cfg file:
   [global]
   URL=http://myserver:8080
This works fine. I can log in, select logbooks, edit/create entries etc. 
etc.

However, I want this connection to be encrypted. So I activate stunnel (v4) 
in such a way that stunnel listens to port 8081 and forwards to the 
("remote") port 8080, which is the "original" elog port. I change the URL= 
entry in de elogd.cfg file to URL=https://myserver:8081 in order to use the 
SSL encrypted connection.

At this time, when I connect to https://myserver:8081 I get the 
welcome/login screen, but when I enter the (correct) username and password, 
the elog program does not show the contents of the logbook buts shows the 
loginscreen again. If I enter a wrong username/password, I do get a correct 
error-screen. So it seems that the connection is correct, but there is some 
sort of problem in ELOG. Anyone who can give me a hand here?
icon5.gif   Options Items limits, posted by Patricio Castro on Tue Aug 31 20:29:20 2004 
Hello friends, 

Exist some form to increase limits of items (100) in the Options List



Thanks for any help
icon5.gif   Locking entries, posted by filantoro on Wed Sep 1 03:42:22 2004 
I have a question about ELOG. Let's say after the user finishes his shift 
and passess on to the next user on duty. A staff member would want to look 
through the entries and vet them. The staff could lock the entries to 
maintain integrity of the information. How can that be done with ELOG? Can 
you enlighten me. Thank u.
icon5.gif   PostScipt Files shown as text., posted by Bryan Moffit on Fri Sep 3 20:17:12 2004 
At some point, in the last week or so, I upgraded the debian-unstable
version (r1459-1) of elog.  Now, PostScript files (as attachments) are
displayed (shown in ascii text, instead of just showing the link).  

Is there an option in the elog.cfg to only display certain files (like .gif
or .jpg).
icon5.gif   PostScript Files shown as text., posted by Bryan Moffit on Fri Sep 3 20:17:20 2004 
At some point, in the last week or so, I upgraded the debian-unstable
version (r1459-1) of elog.  Now, PostScript files (as attachments) are
displayed (shown in ascii text, instead of just showing the link).  

Is there an option in the elog.cfg to only display certain files (like .gif
or .jpg).
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