> It seems that uploading files with spaces in the name *now* works well... so the
> problem should be somewhere in the handling of existing attachments, not rised when
> the attachment is uploaded with the current version of elog ... it's quite strange

Can you send me one of this old xxxxxxa.log files which causes that crash, I can then fix
it in elogd.c ...

> - Irestarted the daemon
> - attached strace to it
> - requested the list for a testin logbook, few entries some quite big images 
>   (two thumbnails, the other are old images get resized my the browser)
> - repeted previous point a couple of times
> - press F5 (mozilla-firefox)  the browser hangs 4ever
> - stop the load
> - repeat point 3, all right
> - F5 => hangs
> - F5 => hangs

I tried to reproduce this problem, but everything was fine. This problem was never
reported by anyone else as well.

> I would like to create a paper waste logbook. I need to have a column that 
> shows a weight in pounds and another column with a calculation from those 
> pounds to dollars.  pounds x $4.00 = cost  I was wondering if this was 
> possible? 
> 
> All other fields would be just Date, Batch#, Operator, Reason, Process 
> Operator, Manager, Lbs, and Cost,  I would also like to total this cost if 
> possible, on a search selected basis. Similar to Excel.

Unfortunately not. But your request is on the wishlist since some time, I added
your vote.

I would like to create a paper waste logbook. I need to have a column that 
shows a weight in pounds and another column with a calculation from those 
pounds to dollars.  pounds x $4.00 = cost  I was wondering if this was 
possible? 

All other fields would be just Date, Batch#, Operator, Reason, Process 
Operator, Manager, Lbs, and Cost,  I would also like to total this cost if 
possible, on a search selected basis. Similar to Excel.

Thanks for any input

David Egolf

> Stefan, the validation still fails on the ampersand ...
> here is an example of your online Demo elog:
> http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/920

Ok, I fixed that, the validation link above show a valid page.

> When an attached image name contains a space in its filename and attachment
> display is enabled elog builds a wrong url to the image:
> 
> http://arcolog.roma2.infn.it:8080/ARCO/050309_170709/peeling+002.jpg
> 
> instead of the correct one:
> 
> http://arcolog.roma2.infn.it:8080/ARCO/050309_170709_peeling+002.jpg
> 
> The more annoing thing is that elogs hangs on this. a strace shows a select
> on fd n°3 and 5 that loops forever (returning a timeout error):
> 
> send(4, "<141>Mar 23 11:36:25 elogd[22189"..., 35, 0) = 35
> rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, NULL, 8) = 0
> select(1024, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
> select(1024, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
> 
> 
> May be the better solution is, after fixing the bug for backward
> compatibility with already uploaded images, to implement a forced characters
> substitution at upload time, replacing spaces and every character not in a
> "allowed chars" list with an underscore

donno if the following is correlated, otherwise there is another problem I
guess :-)
I attached a strace of elog, hope you'll find it useful.

- Irestarted the daemon
- attached strace to it
- requested the list for a testin logbook, few entries some quite big images 
  (two thumbnails, the other are old images get resized my the browser)
- repeted previous point a couple of times
- press F5 (mozilla-firefox)  the browser hangs 4ever
- stop the load
- repeat point 3, all right
- F5 => hangs
- F5 => hangs

there should be some problem, may be in the socket ?

Stefan, the validation still fails on the ampersand ... here is an example of your online Demo elog: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/920

> Hi to all,
> 
> I've prepared a new Debian package.  This version will probably be the one
> which you'll find in Sarge/stable.
> 
> There are some invasive changes in this version which call for a serious
> test.  In accordance with a suggestion, I've changed the configuration
> mechanism.  For details, please read the NEWS.Debian file attached.
> 
> Could the Debian users who follow this forum test it and give some feedback?
> You can download the package from the following link:
> 
>   http://l10n-turkish.alioth.debian.org/debian/elog_2.5.8+r1592-1_i386.deb
> 
> Thanks in advance for your participation,

btw, what about in including in default/elog also a voice for the "-x" switch ??

It is a security related thing and may be passed only on the command line to the
daemon, so it should be governed by the system elog admin.