Hi,

I use some CSS for each elog to resize column correcly and it seems that current ELOG version 3.14 available from EPEL for EL7 has a problem (maybe others also).

The browser console displays an error when loading ELOG logbook page (french locale ):

La feuille de style https:/xxxxx.xxx.xx/elog/MCO/1130_171749_REUNION_20221130_Q01.jpgelog-mco.css n’a pas été chargée car son type MIME, « text/html », n’est pas « text/css ».

It seems ELOG server send the css link with enclosure path (https:/xxxxx.xxx.xx/elog/MCO/1130_171749_REUNION_20221130_Q01.jpg) + css file (elog-mco.css) ?!?

I tryed to rebuild the last source from git under EL7 but it fails with LDAP libs (C++ regression already reported in elog:forum/69478). :-(

Thanks for help.

Laurent

Update : i tryed with last git, w/o ldap support and it seems the problem is solved with CCS URL on same machine (just replace the elogd binary from EPEL by new one just build w/o LDAP support and fallback on File to login for testing).

So my problem is the error during build with LDAP auth (since using C++) :-(

...

+ cd elog-3-14
+ make USE_SSL=1 USE_LDAP=1 USE_KRB5=1 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml'
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -c -o mxml.o mxml/mxml.cxx
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -w -c -o crypt.o src/crypt.cxx
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -c -o strlcpy.o mxml/strlcpy.cxx
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -o elog src/elog.cxx mxml.o crypt.o strlcpy.o -lssl -lkrb5 -lldap -llber
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -w -c -o auth.o src/auth.cxx
src/auth.cxx: In function 'int auth_verify_password_ldap(LOGBOOK*, const char*, const char*, char*, int)':
src/auth.cxx:283:60: error: 'ldap_simple_bind_s' was not declared in this scope
    bind = ldap_simple_bind_s(ldap_ld, ldap_bindDN, password);
                                                            ^
src/auth.cxx:290:26: error: 'ldap_unbind' was not declared in this scope
       ldap_unbind(ldap_ld);
                          ^
src/auth.cxx:295:23: error: 'ldap_unbind' was not declared in this scope
    ldap_unbind(ldap_ld);
                       ^
src/auth.cxx: In function 'int ldap_adduser_file(LOGBOOK*, const char*, const char*, char*, int)':
src/auth.cxx:323:60: error: 'ldap_simple_bind_s' was not declared in this scope
    bind = ldap_simple_bind_s(ldap_ld, ldap_bindDN, password);
                                                            ^
src/auth.cxx:330:26: error: 'ldap_unbind' was not declared in this scope
       ldap_unbind(ldap_ld);
                          ^
src/auth.cxx:358:26: error: 'ldap_unbind' was not declared in this scope
       ldap_unbind(ldap_ld);
                          ^
src/auth.cxx:369:62: error: 'ldap_get_values' was not declared in this scope
          if((values = ldap_get_values(ldap_ld,entry,attribute)) != NULL ) {
                                                              ^
src/auth.cxx:378:35: error: 'ldap_value_free' was not declared in this scope
             ldap_value_free(values);
                                   ^
src/auth.cxx:386:23: error: 'ldap_unbind' was not declared in this scope
    ldap_unbind(ldap_ld);
                       ^
src/auth.cxx: In function 'int auth_verify_password(LOGBOOK*, const char*, const char*, char*, int)':
src/auth.cxx:593:73: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*' [-fpermissive]
          if (get_user_line(lbs, user, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) == 2) {
                                                                         ^
In file included from src/auth.cxx:30:0:
src/elogd.h:282:5: error:   initializing argument 2 of 'int get_user_line(LOGBOOK*, char*, char*, char*, char*, BOOL*, time_t*, int*)' [-fpermissive]
 int get_user_line(LOGBOOK * lbs, char *user, char *password, char *full_name, char *email,
     ^
make: *** [auth.o] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /home/il/jeanrigaudl/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.cKJL45 (%build)

Updated :

1. from google (https://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/201104/msg00030.html), it seems it's necessary to add before "#include ldap.h" in src/auth.cxx

#define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1

2. A cast must be added to src/auth.cxx:593 as already done somewhere with C++ commit :

         if (get_user_line(lbs, (char *) user, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) == 2) {
 

-> elogd builds now with ldap :-) .

I installed elogd binary and i could login and the css url problem is gone.

Thanks to update auth.cxx (2 mods) and buildrpm (2 mods) in git (sorry, no pull request).

NB : PAM can not be activated under EL7 with same type of error. I disabled the feature as i do not use it.

+ cd elog-3-14
+ make USE_SSL=1 USE_PAM=1 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml'
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_PAM -c -o mxml.o mxml/mxml.cxx
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_PAM -w -c -o crypt.o src/crypt.cxx
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_PAM -c -o strlcpy.o mxml/strlcpy.cxx
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_PAM -o elog src/elog.cxx mxml.o crypt.o strlcpy.o -lssl -lpam -llber
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_PAM -w -c -o auth.o src/auth.cxx
src/auth.cxx: In function 'int elog_conv(int, const pam_message**, pam_response**, void*)':
src/auth.cxx:452:59: error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'pam_response*' [-fpermissive]
    if((*resp = calloc(num_msg, sizeof(struct pam_response))) == NULL)
                                                           ^
src/auth.cxx:457:33: error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'const char*' [-fpermissive]
    if(!(resptok = strdup(my_data))) {
                                 ^
In file included from src/elogd.h:46:0,
                 from src/auth.cxx:30:
/usr/include/string.h:172:14: error:   initializing argument 1 of 'char* strdup(const char*)' [-fpermissive]
 extern char *strdup (const char *__s)
              ^
make: *** [auth.o] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /home/il/jeanrigaudl/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.V2LE4L (%build)
 

> elogd binary from EPEL

thank you for bringing this up to our attention. we recently went through this with debian and ubuntu. the elog package was severely out of date and 
did not include the security patches that went it right before covid started in the Winter of 2020.

the elogd package in EPEL7 is insecure and should not be used. (I see it is removed from EPEL8, EPEL9 and current Fedora).

I will have to contact EPEL maintainers to have it removed from EPEL7 (or at least to have it marked as "insecure, do not use").

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/SRPMS/Packages/e/elog-3.1.4-1.20190113git283534d97d5a.el7.src.rpm

https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/elog/elog/
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/elog/elog/fedora-35.html
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/elog/elog/epel-7.html

note in the changelog "Update to post-release snapshot of 3.1.4. - Fix several security issues."

K.O.

> > elogd binary from EPEL
> 
> thank you for bringing this up to our attention. we recently went through this with debian and ubuntu. the elog package was severely out of date and 
> did not include the security patches that went it right before covid started in the Winter of 2020.
> 
> the elogd package in EPEL7 is insecure and should not be used. (I see it is removed from EPEL8, EPEL9 and current Fedora).
> 
> I will have to contact EPEL maintainers to have it removed from EPEL7 (or at least to have it marked as "insecure, do not use").
> 
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/SRPMS/Packages/e/elog-3.1.4-1.20190113git283534d97d5a.el7.src.rpm
> 
> https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/elog/elog/
> https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/elog/elog/fedora-35.html
> https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/elog/elog/epel-7.html
> 
> note in the changelog "Update to post-release snapshot of 3.1.4. - Fix several security issues."
> 
> K.O.


Good day, elog has never been retired in EPEL 7. It is still there
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/elog/tree/epel7

I am pretty sure because I am a Fedora/RHEL package maintainer and a retired package should contain in its Git branch only a file named "dead.package"

Hi Stefan,

It seems buildrpm should be updated to take care of cpp files. Plz replace "cp <blahblah>.c ..." by "cp <blahblah>.cxx ..." .

Also, uncomment the hostname test witch activates all authentification options by default. It should be done by adding options as follow : buildrpm ver rel -ldap -ker ...

By default, i can not build elog with LDAP.

After that mods, rpms are builded under EL7 (w/o LDAP support which is not useful for me).

Bye

Laurent

We use our instance of ELOG as a operations log so that newest events are sorted at the top.

Sometimes we are also up front informed about planned maintenance, and i would be nice to could "pin" them at the top - before the sorting, so that operatores could have them in mind when starting a new shift. Have anyone found a way to solve this?

Kind Regards Finn

The way to do this is to ensure that the date of the entry is in the future.  As a hard -core linux (ab)user of elog, I create an entry, then dive into the yymmdda.log files, and edit it so that the date at the top of the entry is, for example, Sat, 31 Dec 2022 23:59:59.  Then, that entry will remain at the top of the listings until the New Year.  I do this very thing for the very same reason, i.e. to keep one entry at the top of the listings until after a certain date.

It may be that if you have "date of entry" field and sort by that, you could set the date of entry in the future.  I've not tried that.

The same effect could be done by adjusting the computer/server's date to the future, make the entry and then reset back to the present, but that may well be unpopular and impractical.  On a single computer, I have done this, although I then changed to editing the yymmdda.log file directly.

Dear All,

we are trying to post from an HTML form, as included in our config file :

[ShiftCheck]
Comment = Shift Check List (exemple a modifier)
Attributes = Author, D, M, Y, Shift, LasE, LasIris, Q, E, Li, TL, RI
Quick filter = Shift, Author
Options Shift = Morning, Evening, Night

Enable attachments = 0
Show text = 1
Custom new form = /www/Web/htdocs/elog/sites/THOMX/shiftcheck.html
Custom edit form =  /www/Web/htdocs/elog/sites/THOMX/shiftcheck.html
Custom display form =  /www/Web/htdocs/elog/sites/THOMX/shiftcheck.html

we are facing the following problem when trying to submit :

--> Error: Command "Submit" not allowed

is there something missing in our config file ?

Many thanks in advance

Probably people have to log in to the logbook before opening the form. I guess the "submit not allowed" comes from the fact that they access the logbook as a guest.

Stefan

Dear Stefan,

that is strange since I logged in ... 

It seems like when I go in the shift check topic in the elog, it does not get my login id ... is there something coming from the HTML file that should be set in order to get the login from elog ?

see in the attached image : I am logged in but I still need to feed the Author item. And even If I fill it, 

And then if I Click on new to write a new filling form, author is not filled as you could see on the second image "Author ?"  ...

so I don' see from where appears the problem

Is it possible to have within elog (defined in password file?) a user group so that only those members of a group have certain elements visible?

Dear Developers

I know this topic i on and off in this forum but it seems the only updated versions of Elog are in the linux binaries. Have anybody been able to compile a windows versions since 2018?

Kind Regards Finn

I'm also supporting this request. 

> Dear Developers
> 
> I know this topic i on and off in this forum but it seems the only updated versions of Elog are in the linux binaries. Have anybody been able to compile a windows versions since 2018?
> 
> Kind Regards Finn

> Dear Developers

> 

> I know this topic i on and off in this forum but it seems the only updated versions of Elog are in the 
linux binaries. Have anybody been able to compile a windows versions since 2018?

> 

> Kind Regards Finn



Hi,



We discussed on windows build some weeks ago and i tried to make one to check if it’s possible.

The result is in https://elog.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/69491

This could help you up to official new build.



.

Laurent

> > Dear Developers
> 
> > 
> 
> > I know this topic i on and off in this forum but it seems the only updated versions of Elog are in the 
> linux binaries. Have anybody been able to compile a windows versions since 2018?
> 
> > 
> 
> > Kind Regards Finn
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> We discussed on windows build some weeks ago and i tried to make one to check if it’s possible.
> 
> The result is in https://elog.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/69491
> 
> This could help you up to official new build.
> 
> 
> 
> .
> 
> Laurent

Hi Laurent

I've found the attached zip files in post 69491. The one containing the ELOG probgram libary won't run on my test laptop - the service wont start
There is in the same thread a post from Just Keijser containing only the executables, and it won't start either. Starting the elog.exe though gives me that the exe is missing 2 dll files which can be downloaded seperately.
It is not easy cause there are several versions of the 2 dll files and only one working, but now my elog reports version ELOG V3.1.4-1ebfd06c

But this cant be the solution - if so the windows version is put to the grave

Kind Regards Finn

Hi Finn,

I've just tested the same archive on new laptop with Windows 11. 
I unzip it and double-click elogd.exe file, bypass defender warning and the server is running.
To test, i open localhost:8080 on web client and it displays the demo logbook.

Btw i didn't test it as a service. What are the 2 libs you said it misses ?

.
Laurent

> 
> Hi Laurent
> 
> I've found the attached zip files in post 69491. The one containing the ELOG probgram libary won't run on my test laptop - the service wont start
> There is in the same thread a post from Just Keijser containing only the executables, and it won't start either. Starting the elog.exe though gives me that the exe is missing 2 dll files which can be downloaded seperately.
> It is not easy cause there are several versions of the 2 dll files and only one working, but now my elog reports version ELOG V3.1.4-1ebfd06c
> 
> But this cant be the solution - if so the windows version is put to the grave
> 
> Kind Regards Finn

> Hi Finn,
> 
> I've just tested the same archive on new laptop with Windows 11. 
> I unzip it and double-click elogd.exe file, bypass defender warning and the server is running.
> To test, i open localhost:8080 on web client and it displays the demo logbook.
> 
> Btw i didn't test it as a service. What are the 2 libs you said it misses ?
> 
> .
> Laurent
> 
> > 
> > Hi Laurent
> > 
> > I've found the attached zip files in post 69491. The one containing the ELOG probgram libary won't run on my test laptop - the service wont start
> > There is in the same thread a post from Just Keijser containing only the executables, and it won't start either. Starting the elog.exe though gives me that the exe is missing 2 dll files which can be downloaded seperately.
> > It is not easy cause there are several versions of the 2 dll files and only one working, but now my elog reports version ELOG V3.1.4-1ebfd06c
> > 
> > But this cant be the solution - if so the windows version is put to the grave
> > 
> > Kind Regards Finn

Hi Laurent

OK, i can recreate the unzip to folder and run elogd.exe and it works :-). If i unzip to the folder of the version installed (with the windows installer) where it runs elogd.exe as a service, the service won't start.

The problem with the dll files only applies to the post from Just Keijser containing only the executables (3 files) and these executables repport missing: libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll and libssl-1_1-x64.dll

These versions are a black box for me, are the important?

The unzip version (your version) reports: ELOG V3.1.4-395e101 (I think this is the same number as for the 2018 installed version)
The version with the 3 exe files (my version) from Just Keijser reports: ELOG V3.1.4-1ebfd06c
This site reports: ELOG V3.1.4-bcd7b50

Kind Regards Finn

Hallo,

gibt es eine Möglichkeit das subdir auf ein Netzlaufwerk zu legen?

\\server\freigabe\...

Der Freigabepfad wird leider immer unter C:\... angelegt

Vielen Dank

UNCs are not officially supported by elog, but your operating system might map them if you're lucky, just try. It is however not recommended to do so, since network drives can sometimes be slow during network congestion and the response of elog will then suffer.

Stefan

So there is no way to save the file on the network?! :(

Can i install the elog on a windows server? i tried it yesterday, but i think i missed something, couse i only could open the elog on the server and not with a client pc.

I'm running ELOG on a windows server 2016. Just installed the windows installer and worked out of the box. 

Have you checked the firewall?

Hi there! 

I have noticed this effect when editing entries with the command line elog.exe.

Let's say I submit a new entry via the command line and I'm also submitting an attachment file. If I check the elog entry via the browser I see my entry there with its attachment as expected. The attachment is also present on the server in the logbook folder with the date and time stamp in front of the original name. 

Now, let's say I would like to edit the same entry via the command line, if I don't pass the attachment, the edited entry won't show any attachment in the browser but on the server there is still the old attachment file available. 

A similar situation is when I edit an entry and I want the edited entry to have the same attachment file of the original one. In that case, the entry on the browser will show the attachment, but on the server I have two copies of the attachment file with the two timestamps (original submission and edited submission). Moreover the first copy is unreachable from any client because not linked to any entry anymore.

In general I would not care much, but I have an application that is regularly updating entries and I will soon have the server hard disk full of useless copies of unlinked attachment. 

I have seen that when deleting an entry, also all its attachments are removed. Would it be possible to have attachments removed when editing an entries? 

Thanks for your help! 

Cheers,

toto