Stefan and friends,

without breaching your own security, could it be possible to see what the 
elogd.cfg file looks like, also if others would like to post theirs, this 
would be great in building exmaples etc, obviosly an security related or 
mail server entries hashed out.

I am a tad new at this stuff, but eventually would try my hand at getting 
hold of the source code and compiling on AIX and then intergrating into 
shell and error reporting. - OK .. a bit in the furture anyway, if someone 
has already done this please post.

kind regards Aamir

Stefan - Just to say that this is an excellent piece of work well done.

I have just started an internal company Elog server, couple of 
clarifications :

1) is there a way around seeing the password in text when self regestering, 
if I turn this option off when the user changes his password will this 
password still be seen?

2) I have changed all the files to be owned on my RedHat Server by the 
user:group as elog:elog and set and moved the logbooks to another directory 
other than in /usr/local/elog namely /home/elog/logbooks, my concern is is 
I was to upgrade to a newer version would it be a simple install over the 
top? any caveats?

thanks again an absolute dream program.

kind regards Aamir

This problem has been fixed as well (elog:233).

> Is the DEFAULT theme somehow hardcoded for the login screen and the main 
> menu ?

Yes, this was in and certainly is not correct. So I fixed it, the new code 
can be obtained vom CVS (see elog:233).

To obtain the newest source code of ELOG, go to the CVS repository at

http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/src

It contains usually the newest bug fixes, which will show up in the next 
realease. On the other hand it can also contain some new features, which 
are not yet fully tested, so care should be taken when using it. The 
revision comments usually explain what is new in that revision.

Hi,
We prepared a customized theme to use with ELOG. It's called for example 
my_theme and is situated in the THEMES directory (together with the DEFAULT 
theme).

I defined the my_theme the global theme for ELOG:

[global]
Theme = my_theme

And it works fine for all the logbook in ELOG. However. The login screen 
and the main menu screen (the one with list of logbooks and # of entries) 
still takes the DEFAULT theme. 

If I change the my_theme name to default then everything works correctly 
(logon + main menu + all logbooks have the desired look).

Is the DEFAULT theme somehow hardcoded for the login screen and the main 
menu ?

Thanx for your answer

Tomas Rudolf

> > We are interested in using your ELOG (which we consider to be a wonderful 
> > application) even more. We would like to make a few adaptations in your 
> > source code, above all to add some functionality that we are missing.
> > 
> > I was wondering if there is a way we could coordinate the development 
> > together. For instance, would it be of your interest to receive the code 
> > adaptations we do and implement it in your future releases? 
> 
> Sure, I'm very interested in those and ready to merge it into the main 
> development tree.
> 
> - Stefan

I think it is very good to include this in elog, but, 
since this is also a big security risk (especially if people are
running elogd as root) I would suggest a compile time option to 
enable this, like: gcc... -DALLOW_SCRIPT ...  
The default should be that it is disabled.
Maybe one should only allow it if the user running elogd is NOT root.

Heiko

Hi Stefan,

I have a question concerning the Email notification in ELOG.

I have been testing various combinations of the parameters you describe in 
your documentation :

Email <attribute> <value> = <list> 
Use Email Subject = <string> 
Use Email From = <string> 
Omit Email To = 0|1 
Suppress Email to users = 0|1 

And I have encountered a problem using the Email <attribute> <value> = 
<list>. While this works fine for me when the <attribute> is of a type 
textfield, Options or ROptions, I don't seem to be able to have it working 
for the MOptions <attribute> = <list>.

The aim is to have an email notification sent only to selected people 
instead of everybody. I was hoping that this would work :

[MyLogBook]
MOptions Message_To = NB,LW,EC,MD,CD,TV,AH,TR,JS
...
...
Suppress Email to users = 1
Email Message_To TR = tomas@mba.be
Email Message_To EC = etienne@mba.be
...
...

Of course, the tricky part is that it is "multiple choice" so any 
combination of recipients is possible.

Am I missing something? 
Thanx for any ideas how to solve this,

Tomas