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icon5.gif   Sort by date prior to 2002, posted by Chris Jennings on Tue Sep 16 17:59:27 2014 

I have an attribute formatted as a date (but not labeled as date) and is sorted as second priority. The sort works fine until I enter a date older than Jan 1st 2002. When I do this it is sorted as the latest. Is this a bug or simply not designed to use dates this old?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

    icon2.gif   Re: Sort by date prior to 2002, posted by Chris Jennings on Tue Sep 16 18:05:41 2014 

Chris Jennings wrote:

I have an attribute formatted as a date (but not labeled as date) and is sorted as second priority. The sort works fine until I enter a date older than Jan 1st 2002. When I do this it is sorted as the latest. Is this a bug or simply not designed to use dates this old?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

 Sorry, my mistake. The cutoff date is anything before September 9th 2001 does not sort.

       icon3.gif   Re: Sort by date prior to 2002, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Sep 17 17:45:18 2014 

Chris Jennings wrote:

Chris Jennings wrote:

I have an attribute formatted as a date (but not labeled as date) and is sorted as second priority. The sort works fine until I enter a date older than Jan 1st 2002. When I do this it is sorted as the latest. Is this a bug or simply not designed to use dates this old?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

 Sorry, my mistake. The cutoff date is anything before September 9th 2001 does not sort.

I think I remember that this has been discussed earlier: it is a little bug in elogd.
You can see where it comes from if you type in the little command 'date -d "9-Sep-2001 3:46:40" +%s'
Converted to "seconds of the epoche" (seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC) the date "9-Sep-2001 3:46:40" has one digit more than "9-Sep-2001 3:46:39".
Since elog makes a string comparison, suddenly 1'000'000'000 is less than 999'999'999; therefore the wrong sorting.

Workaround: you can modify your old entries and add a leading zero to all entries where your specific date field starts with a '9'.

Stefan: you should fix it at least well before 20-Nov-2286 18:46:40, when the same bug strikes again!
          icon2.gif   Re: Sort by date prior to 2002, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Sep 22 14:39:10 2014 

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Chris Jennings wrote:

Chris Jennings wrote:

I have an attribute formatted as a date (but not labeled as date) and is sorted as second priority. The sort works fine until I enter a date older than Jan 1st 2002. When I do this it is sorted as the latest. Is this a bug or simply not designed to use dates this old?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

 Sorry, my mistake. The cutoff date is anything before September 9th 2001 does not sort.

I think I remember that this has been discussed earlier: it is a little bug in elogd.
You can see where it comes from if you type in the little command 'date -d "9-Sep-2001 3:46:40" +%s'
Converted to "seconds of the epoche" (seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC) the date "9-Sep-2001 3:46:40" has one digit more than "9-Sep-2001 3:46:39".
Since elog makes a string comparison, suddenly 1'000'000'000 is less than 999'999'999; therefore the wrong sorting.

Workaround: you can modify your old entries and add a leading zero to all entries where your specific date field starts with a '9'.

Stefan: you should fix it at least well before 20-Nov-2286 18:46:40, when the same bug strikes again!

Ok, well before 2286 approaches I fixed that bug and committed it to the GIT repository (master branch).

/Stefan 

icon5.gif   default font style, posted by Sara Vanini on Mon Sep 8 14:51:35 2014 

Hi,

is it possibile to set a default font style: format, font, size, color, etc? how?

Thanks a lot

Sara

 

 

    icon2.gif   Re: default font style, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Sep 9 10:12:37 2014 

Sara Vanini wrote:

Hi,

is it possibile to set a default font style: format, font, size, color, etc? how?

Thanks a lot

Sara

You look here: http://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#themes 

       icon2.gif   Re: default font style, posted by Sara Vanini on Tue Sep 9 15:42:53 2014 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Sara Vanini wrote:

Hi,

is it possibile to set a default font style: format, font, size, color, etc? how?

Thanks a lot

Sara

You look here: http://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#themes 

 Thanks! but I'm lost in the themes/default/default.css file.... which is the entry I have to edit for the style of the body text (Format "Normal") of the elog pages?

Sara

 

          icon2.gif   Re: default font style, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Sep 9 15:50:25 2014 

Sara Vanini wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Sara Vanini wrote:

Hi,

is it possibile to set a default font style: format, font, size, color, etc? how?

Thanks a lot

Sara

You look here: http://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#themes 

 Thanks! but I'm lost in the themes/default/default.css file.... which is the entry I have to edit for the style of the body text (Format "Normal") of the elog pages?

Sara

 

Just change the body { } entry in the CSS file. Here is a good tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_syntax.asp 

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icon5.gif   Preset Text, posted by mike cianci on Fri Aug 22 23:10:28 2014 

I have stripped my config file down to one command:   "Preset text = \\ssoelog\elog\templates\test2.txt"

If I type the path "\\ssoelog\elog\templates\test2.txt" into my browser I see the contents of the file, which is the word  "YES"

But when I open a "New" page in ELOG the command returns:    " \\ssoelog\elog\templates\test2.txt"

Could it have anything to do with the fact that I am using Version 2.7.5

    icon2.gif   Re: Preset Text, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Sun Aug 24 15:06:37 2014 

mike cianci wrote:

I have stripped my config file down to one command:   "Preset text = \\ssoelog\elog\templates\test2.txt"

If I type the path "\\ssoelog\elog\templates\test2.txt" into my browser I see the contents of the file, which is the word  "YES"

But when I open a "New" page in ELOG the command returns:    " \\ssoelog\elog\templates\test2.txt"

Could it have anything to do with the fact that I am using Version 2.7.5

Well, I only know that the following config file works fine for me on Linux:

 
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[test]
Attributes = xx
Preset text = /tmp/xx

with the file /tmp/xx containing "test: ignore". When opening a new entry, then the text "test: ignore" is written in the editors text area.

I'm using Version 2.9.2

My suggestion: download the latest Windows Version and try again.

icon5.gif   Elog and Certs, posted by Chuck Brost on Fri Aug 1 22:46:09 2014 

Elog V2.9.1-2435 if it matters. 

It is time again to install the certs for SSL in Elog, and the standard openssl command line does not seem to produce the files that I need in order to get it working on my system.

I copied the file to my trusty linux server and ran the command "openssl pkcs12 -in cert.p12 -clcerts -out cert.pem " as I did last time, last time I got a nice little .crt and .key file.. this time.. no such luck.. I can get by with the guys just hitting the continue and go past the expired cert notice for a bit.. but if I cannot fix it reasonably soon.. well, it won't be pretty for me.. <grin>

Any ideas that anyone can give will be appreciated.. this is a bit outside my usual duties around here..

    icon2.gif   Re: Elog and Certs, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Sat Aug 2 06:59:22 2014 

Chuck Brost wrote:

Elog V2.9.1-2435 if it matters. 

It is time again to install the certs for SSL in Elog, and the standard openssl command line does not seem to produce the files that I need in order to get it working on my system.

I copied the file to my trusty linux server and ran the command "openssl pkcs12 -in cert.p12 -clcerts -out cert.pem " as I did last time, last time I got a nice little .crt and .key file.. this time.. no such luck.. I can get by with the guys just hitting the continue and go past the expired cert notice for a bit.. but if I cannot fix it reasonably soon.. well, it won't be pretty for me.. <grin>

Any ideas that anyone can give will be appreciated.. this is a bit outside my usual duties around here..

I'm not an expert in this field, but I think openssl is not meant to create a certificate for you, it is meant to create a certificate request form (CSR) and then you buy the certificate with that form from a vendor. Once you have the certificate then you just need to copy it to the right place for ELOG (or Apache) to use it, you don't need openssl for that.

 
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You can have a look at: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/generate-a-csr-with-openssl

Good luck!

 

PS: This is of course an openssl question: another forum could may be more helpful?

       icon2.gif   Re: Elog and Certs, posted by Chuck Brost on Mon Aug 11 22:21:43 2014 

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Chuck Brost wrote:

Elog V2.9.1-2435 if it matters. 

It is time again to install the certs for SSL in Elog, and the standard openssl command line does not seem to produce the files that I need in order to get it working on my system.

I copied the file to my trusty linux server and ran the command "openssl pkcs12 -in cert.p12 -clcerts -out cert.pem " as I did last time, last time I got a nice little .crt and .key file.. this time.. no such luck.. I can get by with the guys just hitting the continue and go past the expired cert notice for a bit.. but if I cannot fix it reasonably soon.. well, it won't be pretty for me.. <grin>

Any ideas that anyone can give will be appreciated.. this is a bit outside my usual duties around here..

I'm not an expert in this field, but I think openssl is not meant to create a certificate for you, it is meant to create a certificate request form (CSR) and then you buy the certificate with that form from a vendor. Once you have the certificate then you just need to copy it to the right place for ELOG (or Apache) to use it, you don't need openssl for that.

 
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You can have a look at: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/generate-a-csr-with-openssl

Good luck!

 

PS: This is of course an openssl question: another forum could may be more helpful?

 for what it is worth, if anyone else is doing this.. try

openssl pkcs12 -in file.pkx -nodes -out file.pem

I have what I need and all is well!

icon5.gif   Preset Text, posted by mike cianci on Fri Aug 8 22:36:29 2014 

Sorry for the novice question, but can anyone tell me where the ".txt" document is suppose to reside for the "Preset text" statement to find it? I have a "test.txt" document in the "Template" file but all "Preset text = test.txt" does is print "test.txt" in the comment section.

Thanks,  Mike

    icon2.gif   Re: Preset Text, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Sat Aug 9 06:40:35 2014 

mike cianci wrote:

Sorry for the novice question, but can anyone tell me where the ".txt" document is suppose to reside for the "Preset text" statement to find it? I have a "test.txt" document in the "Template" file but all "Preset text = test.txt" does is print "test.txt" in the comment section.

Thanks,  Mike

I always chose the safe solution: I provide the full path to the document. For example (under Linux):

Preset text = /usr/local/elog/logbooks/inc/test.txt

 
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icon5.gif   New entries remotely?, posted by Daniel Roldan on Tue Jul 29 16:20:16 2014 

 Hi all,

I would like to create a new entry remotely.

I would like that when the macro run, the macro automatically create a new entry in my Elog.

I was searching, but i don't saw any thing about this.

Is possible to do a new entry remotely?

 

Thanks for all.

    icon2.gif   Re: New entries remotely?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Jul 29 16:53:18 2014 

Daniel Roldan wrote:

 Hi all,

I would like to create a new entry remotely.

I would like that when the macro run, the macro automatically create a new entry in my Elog.

I was searching, but i don't saw any thing about this.

Is possible to do a new entry remotely?

 

Thanks for all.

Use the "elog" command line utility as described here under tips & tricks: http://midas.psi.ch/elog/userguide.html

icon5.gif   Unable to resize images in browser, posted by Matthew Deller on Tue Feb 18 21:32:27 2014 
I am unable to resize/ manipulate images in browser. Image Magick detected Version: ImageMagick 6.6.9-7 2012-08-17.

Output when running elog with verbose option shows buffer overflow when resize attempted:
[[Going to execute: /bin/sh -c "identify -format '%wx%h %c' '/home/elog/elog-2.9.2/logbooks/HardwareLog/140218_120423_2014-02-18_remod_(extended_II).png.png'" > /tmp/elog-shell 2>&1
Falling back to default group "elog"
Falling back to default user "elog"
*** buffer overflow detected ***: elogd terminated

Any ideas how to fix this? I'm not sure if this is a problem with the elog / Ubuntu / Image Magick?
    icon2.gif   Re: Unable to resize images in browser, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Feb 21 13:09:48 2014 

Matthew Deller wrote:
I am unable to resize/ manipulate images in browser. Image Magick detected Version: ImageMagick 6.6.9-7 2012-08-17.

Output when running elog with verbose option shows buffer overflow when resize attempted:
[[Going to execute: /bin/sh -c "identify -format '%wx%h %c' '/home/elog/elog-2.9.2/logbooks/HardwareLog/140218_120423_2014-02-18_remod_(extended_II).png.png'" > /tmp/elog-shell 2>&1
Falling back to default group "elog"
Falling back to default user "elog"
*** buffer overflow detected ***: elogd terminated

Any ideas how to fix this? I'm not sure if this is a problem with the elog / Ubuntu / Image Magick?


What happens if you execute the command manually, like

$ identify -format '%wx%h %c' '/home/elog/elog-2.9.2/logbooks/HardwareLog/140218_120423_2014-02-18_remod_(extended_II).png.png

The "identify" command just checks the size in pixels of your image and expects something like 800x600. Let me know if this command returns something completely different.

/Stefan
       icon2.gif   Re: Unable to resize images in browser, posted by Matt Deller on Thu Jun 19 09:35:20 2014 

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Matthew Deller wrote:
I am unable to resize/ manipulate images in browser. Image Magick detected Version: ImageMagick 6.6.9-7 2012-08-17.

Output when running elog with verbose option shows buffer overflow when resize attempted:
[[Going to execute: /bin/sh -c "identify -format '%wx%h %c' '/home/elog/elog-2.9.2/logbooks/HardwareLog/140218_120423_2014-02-18_remod_(extended_II).png.png'" > /tmp/elog-shell 2>&1
Falling back to default group "elog"
Falling back to default user "elog"
*** buffer overflow detected ***: elogd terminated

Any ideas how to fix this? I'm not sure if this is a problem with the elog / Ubuntu / Image Magick?


What happens if you execute the command manually, like

$ identify -format '%wx%h %c' '/home/elog/elog-2.9.2/logbooks/HardwareLog/140218_120423_2014-02-18_remod_(extended_II).png.png

The "identify" command just checks the size in pixels of your image and expects something like 800x600. Let me know if this command returns something completely different.

/Stefan


Sorry for very late reply. I recently rebuilt our server. Elog 2-9-2, new machine, new OS (Ubuntu 14.04), new version of ImageMagick (6.7.7-10), but I'm having the same unresolved problem. identify -format from the command line returns 645x860 (as it should). Any ideas?

-Matt
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