Yes, the alarm() function is wrong here. I removed it from the Windows version and committed the code to GIT. 

Was a tricky problem. When you use "Propagate Attributes", a routine is called inside elogd which recursively goes through all replies. It uses quite some memory for temporary storage of attributes and attachments. So after a certain time you get a stack overflow since you run out of memory. Since the stack size is different under different operating systems, it was hard for me to reproduce it initially. Now I use some different memory (dynamic heap instead stack) which should fix the problem. Can you pull from GIT and give it a try?

/Stefan 

 I too am having issues installing on Mac OS X 10.9.1. I changed CFLAGS in makefile to;

CFLAGS += -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0

I get many lines of errors like this when I run make;

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:1491:6: note: 'SSL_accept' declared here

int     SSL_accept(SSL *ssl) DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_7_AND_LATER;

        ^

src/elogd.c:28809:19: warning: 'SSL_set_fd' is deprecated: first deprecated in OS X 10.7 [-Wdeprecated-declarations]

                  SSL_set_fd(ka_ssl_con[i_min], ka_sock[i_min]);

                  ^

If you would use the Makefile from the GIT repository there would be no errors under OS X 10.9.1:

/elog$ make                                                                                                                                                                 
cc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -I../mxml  -DHAVE_SSL -w -c -o crypt.o src/crypt.c                                         
cc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -I../mxml  -DHAVE_SSL -o elog src/elog.c crypt.o -lssl                                     
cc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -I../mxml  -DHAVE_SSL -w -c -o regex.o src/regex.c                                         
cc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -I../mxml  -DHAVE_SSL -w -c -o auth.o src/auth.c                                           
cc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -I../mxml  -DHAVE_SSL -c -o mxml.o ../mxml/mxml.c                                          
cc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -I../mxml  -DHAVE_SSL -c -o strlcpy.o ../mxml/strlcpy.c                                    
cc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -I../mxml  -DHAVE_SSL -o elogd src/elogd.c crypt.o auth.o regex.o mxml.o strlcpy.o -lssl   
cc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -I../mxml  -DHAVE_SSL -o elconv src/elconv.c -lssl                                         
/elog$                                                                                                                                                                      

Actually what you need is -Wno-deprecated-declarations to suppress the warnings. The open SSL functions will at some point be removed from OSX, they have their own implementation of SSL. So then we either have to ship openSSL together with elog or use Apple's implementatoin. But for now we are still fine.

/Stefan

 Unfortunately, I am a little outside of my element when trying to compile it.  I will ask around and see if someone here could give me a hand.  Thanks for looking into this for me.

PS.  If anyone else has managed to compile this could you give me a hand =)

 This resolved the issue, thanks for the help.  I have tested it on server machines and was able to go over 10 each time.

Thank you for resolving this issue for me.

 I was able to manage and compile the latest code from GIT.  It runs fine so far.  Just a hint, in order to compile successfully, there are some steps that you may need to modify your header file depend on how you store your mxml, krb5, OpenSSL files and directories.

Hi Stefan and Andreas

Yesterday I reported I had some issues with the latest elog: but now I can reproduce one.  
elog 2.9.2-a738232

I started a new entry, and attached three pdf files.  I did not get the problem of not seeing the png thumnbnail
this time, although that is annoying if you want/need to adjust the thumbnail image before submitting.

However, if I then look at the running processes, I have the following listed (ps -A)

23677 tty1     00:00:04 elogd
23809 tty1     00:00:00 elogd <defunct>
23825 tty1     00:00:00 elogd <defunct>
23847 pts/0    00:00:00 ps

23677 was when I started the elogd daemon, having killed off the previous daemon etc for test purposes.

23809 and 23825 appeared after a couple of pdfs were added (second and third ones to be precise).  They can only
be killed off by killing off the original running daemon.  It appears that attaching a second and further pdf
attachments to any entry generates an elogd <defunct> in the processes list, although attaching a jpg in the
middle of a list of pdfs didn't (but the next pdf did).  This is happening while adding attachments, that is the
Submit button has yet to be pressed, so it seems to be generated  when the pdf file is being processed for some
reason.

You can end up with quite a stack of these in the process list!

I never saw this behaviour with the previous version I was running, SVN2475 I think.


By the way, I still cannot send an attachment over to this server (showing a screenshot) without the 502 error.