I have been using elog for over 10 years. Suddenly my elog installation has changed (probably from a recent update. My /etc/elogd.cfg has changed to the original demo configuration. Even after changing it to my configuration from backup none of the entries for the logbooks apper even though the tabs for the logboos are ther all logbooks are empty. I have looced at the logbook files and the entries seem to be there but are not showing on the web interface. Has something changed? Is there a new location for the logbooks and other files? Is there a change from the 32-bit to the 64-bit version that will cause this. I am running CentOS 7 fully patched and updated. Will there be a CentOS 8 compatible version?

If you've upgraded from an elog 2.x version to an 3.x version, then all entries of a logbook will be moved into subfolder, one for each year.

If you then switch back to the 2.x version of elog, it'll not find any entries.

You can move them back to the folder for the logbook (one directory up) and they'll be found again after the next restart of elog.

Cheers, Andreas

I am getting the following errors when trying to install elog-2.3.9 on
my FreeBSD box. I am running FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE.

Many thanks!

"Makefile", line 21: Missing dependency operator
"Makefile", line 27: Need an operator
"Makefile", line 29: Missing dependency operator
"Makefile", line 31: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue


You4eea

Unfortunately I don't have access to a FreeBSD box so I cannot try. But I 
thought the GNU make is the same on Linux and FreeBSD??? 

Has anybody successful compiled under FreeBSD?

- Stefan

I got elog 2.3.9 running on FreeBSD 5.1 successfully,
I compiled elog on a redhat box and then just copied over all the files to 
the FreeBSD box and ELOG just ran with no issues.
It's been running under heavy use for at least a month now.

PS: you might need the linux compatibility package installed on BSD though...


> I am getting the following errors when trying to install elog-2.3.9 on
> my FreeBSD box. I am running FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE.
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> "Makefile", line 21: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 27: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 29: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 31: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> 
> 
> You4eea

> I got elog 2.3.9 running on FreeBSD 5.1 successfully,
> I compiled elog on a redhat box and then just copied over all the files to 
> the FreeBSD box and ELOG just ran with no issues.
> It's been running under heavy use for at least a month now.

FYI- the default "make" on FreeBSD is BSD, not GNU.

The easiest way to build elog on FreeBSD is to install "gmake" (via the port or
package) and type "gmake".  That's all it took for me to build a freshly
downloaded copy on 5.1 not 5 minutes ago.

Thanks for that mate, compiled elog on FreeBSD 5.1 myself no problems just like 
you said, great!

> 
> FYI- the default "make" on FreeBSD is BSD, not GNU.
> 
> The easiest way to build elog on FreeBSD is to install "gmake" (via the port or
> package) and type "gmake".  That's all it took for me to build a freshly
> downloaded copy on 5.1 not 5 minutes ago.

submissions via the elog - program can overwrite entries even if the user has no edit rights