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  1434   Sun Oct 9 20:39:50 2005 Angy Exaos LeeExaos.Lee@gmail.comBug reportLinux | Mac OSX2.6.0beta5"Error: Cannot find hostname"
I usually access hosts in LAN with their IPs. But elogd seems to prefer hostnames to IPs. I cannot ask each one to add the hostname to their system config file while they visit my host. I encounter several problems which seems to be related to the hostname resolution:
  • I can visit remote elog service through IP and port, but cannot submit entry and cannot open the config page remotely. For example, my powerbook's name is "exaos-pb-12" and its IP is 10.10.2.96. I run elogd on my PB and try to access it through URL http://10.10.2.96:8080/ on host 10.10.2.99. While I submit a new entry or open the config page, my firefox alway blames: "exaos-pb-12.local could not be found. Please check the name and try again."
  • Sometimes, all the images, colors are missing. It looks like that my firefox cannot find the correct URL of these images or CSS files. It might be the same problem of "cannot find hostname".
  1433   Sun Oct 9 20:18:23 2005 Entry Exaos LeeExaos.Lee@gmail.comOtherAll2.6.0beta5The Chinese Language,Demo Configuration and Help Files
Hi, Stefan,
The days from Oct.1~7 are our Nation Day's vacation, so I delayed the translation to Chinese. I just finished these files today:

  1. eloglang.zh_CN-GB2312 : This is for simplified Chinese using GB2312 encoding.
  2. eloglang.zh_CN-UTF-8 : This is for simplified Chinese using UTF-8 encoding.
  3. eloghelp.zh-CN.html : Help file for elog in simplified Chinese.
  4. elcode_zh-CN.html : The help file for ELCode in simplified Chinese.
  5. elogd-zh_CN-GB2312.cfg : Demo configuration file for simplified Chinese with GB2312 encoding.
  6. elogd-zh_CN-UTF-8.cfg : Demo configuration file for simplified Chinese with UTF-8 encoding.

I have to provide the language files in different encodings because the elogd cannot creat new logbook file named in Chinese with GB2312 encoding under MacOS X. The default charset under MacOS X is UTF-16, and elogd works with UTF-8 while processing Chinese contents and logbooks named in Chinese.

I want to make elogd display the date in Chinese format. Please tell me howto.
Thanks.
  1432   Sat Oct 8 08:44:22 2005 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestion  Re: ELOG repository moved from CVS to Subversion

Exaos Lee wrote:
Hi, Stefan,
I cannot checkout due to the following error:
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$ svn checkout svn+ssh://svn@savannah.psi.ch:/afs/psi.ch/project/meg/svn/elog/trunk elog
ssh: savannah.psi.ch:: Name or service not known
svn: Connection closed unexpectedly
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It seems that my PC cannot find the host savannah.psi.ch within CIAE. Maybe it's the problem of our DNS server. Anyway, what is the IP of savannah?


Sorry, was my mistake. In the command you have to use savannah.psi.ch, not savannah.psi.ch: (with the colon). So the full command is

$ svn checkout svn+ssh://svn@savannah.psi.ch/afs/psi.ch/project/meg/svn/elog/trunk elog
  1431   Sat Oct 8 05:08:40 2005 Reply Exaos LeeExaos.Lee@gmail.comQuestion  Re: ELOG repository moved from CVS to Subversion
Hi, Stefan,
I cannot checkout due to the following error:
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$ svn checkout svn+ssh://svn@savannah.psi.ch:/afs/psi.ch/project/meg/svn/elog/trunk elog
ssh: savannah.psi.ch:: Name or service not known
svn: Connection closed unexpectedly
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It seems that my PC cannot find the host savannah.psi.ch within CIAE. Maybe it's the problem of our DNS server. Anyway, what is the IP of savannah?
  1430   Fri Oct 7 17:18:32 2005 Idea Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.ch   ELOG repository moved from CVS to Subversion
The elog repository has been moved from CVS to Subversion for various reasons. Those people who accessed the CVS repository in the past now have to do it in one of two different ways:
  • Use the new ViewCVS gateway. This gateway now can also directly produce tarballs for the current repository snapshot
  • Use anonymous Subversion access:

    svn checkout svn+ssh://svn@savannah.psi.ch/afs/psi.ch/project/meg/svn/elog/trunk elog
    svn@midas.psi.ch's password: svn
    (you might have to enter the password several times...)
    svn checkout svn+ssh://svn@savannah.psi.ch/afs/psi.ch/project/meg/svn/mxml/trunk mxml
    svn@midas.psi.ch's password: svn
    (you might have to enter the password several times...)
If there is any problem accessing the new repository, please let me know.
  1429   Fri Oct 7 08:53:00 2005 Question Ulrich Trüsselulrich.truessel@familienhund.chQuestionWindows2.60-beta5Display Attribute no longer works in Beta 5?
Just changed from Beta 2 to Beta 5:

I'm using Display Attribut = [elog:$logbook/$message id] as a reference link for other entries (ex.: Display Referenz = [elog:$logbook/$message id]). also see the attached elogd.cfg file.

With Beta 2 (not testet with Beta 3 or 4!) this worked very well -> see attached Display Attribute with 260-b2.jpg file.

With Beta 5 is seems no longer to work -> see attached Display Attribute with 260-b5.jpg file.

ANy ideee what's wrong in my elogd.cfg??? Thanks!
  1428   Wed Oct 5 13:24:52 2005 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.ch Linux2.6.0Re: elog fails to connect with "cannot get host name: Success" message

ScottK wrote:
I can't seem to connect using elog:

elog -h <myhost>:8080 -v -l Servers -a "Type=Routine" -a "Author=ScottK" -m ~/test.txt



Maybe a

elog -h <myhost> -p 8080 -v -l .... ???
  1427   Wed Oct 5 13:22:08 2005 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportLinux | Windows2.6.0-b4Re: Post appearing twice

Dan Chitwood wrote:
We are having trouble on our logbook with posts appearing twice. Both posts contain the same ID number, time, etc. This most often occurs when the e-log entry is being written for an extended period of time (ie. more than 30 minutes), but I don't know if that is the root cause of the problem. It may also be related to posts that are edited after an initial posting. Could this be due to an improper setting in our config file?


Besides the trivial case that people hit the submit button twice I can only imagine one possible cause: If you edit an existing entry, there is a button Resubmit as new entry at the bottom. If that button is checked, the old entry gets deleted and a new one gets submitted. If the delete of the old entry fails for some reason, you could maybe get two entries.

May I suggest following: Use a very simple config file (like the demo one from the distribution) and see if you can reproduce the problem. If not, add you config options one by one to the config file, and see at which option the problem starts. This way you might find the cause of it.

Your problem has not been reported by anybody else so far, so chances are high that it's related to a config setting.
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