For the last couple of months we are getting a random elogd crash once in a while we are getting something like the following in the middle of the night

> Sep 29 20:45:07 elog kernel: server_name686835]: segfault at 7ffd7f5a0000 ip 00007fceaeabbf06 sp 00007ffd7f577348 error 6 in libc-2.28.so[7fceaea8a000+1bc000]

I'm going to try and see if it will leave a coredump file, just thought I would ask if anyone else had seen this before?

Thanks,
Matt

Most likely these are some currupt logbook files. If you get a coredump (or stack trace) you can maybe figure out which file it was. These are plain ASCII files (YYMMDDa.log) and you can see with an editor if someting there is not in order.

Stefan

Thanks for the info! 

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Hello,

I have just installed elog onto an ubuntu focal server using <sudo make install> and I am unable to create new entries.

When I access the log via a windows PC connected to the local network, I can see the demo logbook with the 1 test post, but I cannot create or edit anything.

Attempting to post throws the error:

New entry cannot be written to directory "/usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo/"

Please check that it exists and elogd has write access and disk is not full.

Please point me in the right direction to correctly set permissions and create aditional log books.

Thanks,

Dan

Hi all,

I have the same problem on Ubuntu 22.04. I have compiled from the latest tarball and copied all our logbooks from our old Ubuntu 18.04 server to a new Ubuntu 22.04. The logbooks does however not appear when I log in, so I assume ELOG doesn't have read access either?
Any hints on how to set the permissions correctly would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mikkel

Permissions are handled by the operating system and have nothing to do with elog. Make sure you run elog under an account which has write access to the desired directories. Consult Ubuntu documentation how to do that. Sometimes it's helpful to start elog interactively with the -v flag to see some verbose output. Maybe you can spot something there.

Stefan

Sometimes this can also be an SELinux issue, if you have that service running. Try "journalctl | grep denied" to see denied resources and consult the SELinux documentation on how to fix that.

I used "chown" to pass permissions from root to my deafult user, then restarted the service and now I can make posts. Thank you!

Hello Sir,

        I'v been a long time user fo Elog for about 14 years.  We use it for indexing our Zoning Board of Adjustment Meeting Minutes for Decision on Properties within the Town of Hampton.  Is it possibel to by-pass the SMTP mailer for building logins and password changes.   We are a small network where we deal wiht the customer face to face in reseting password and builing new users.  Having the user reset them selves doesn't happen and normally we just take a ticket and do the task for them. 

We are building a new user and take we have not done in 10 years.  In those ten years the decsion was made to The Town onto Office 365 E3 GCC  and remove the ole mail server.  Now I'm finding impossible to build a new user or reset a password without SMTP support.

Thank you in advance.

Hi,

we're using elog to handle various logbooks. It's a great tool by the way. 
While replacing the Win32 2.7.8 Release with Release 3.1.4-2, we ran into the 
following problem.

Since elog is for internal usage only, we allow users to self-register if they 
are new. Therefore  "Self register = 1" is set in the [global]-area.

Using the Win32-Release of elog, it worked fine while using Release 2.7.8 or 
2.8.0. Starting with Release 3.x everytime you try do add a user, the following 
error occurs:

      Error: Command "config" is not allowed for user ""

No matter if the user self-registers or is added by an elog-admin-user. We 
tried various 3.x Releases from 3.1.0-1 up to the latest 3.1.4-2. 
The error-message remains the same. Curious, although an error-message occurs, 
the user is added and able to use all logbooks. We also ran elogd in 
Debug-Mode (-v3), but the output didn't give a clue.

By the way using the same configuration on a linux-based installation (Debian 
and RaspiOS) self-registration works smooth. No error-message occurs.

So what could be the problem? Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance. 

I recommend to clear all your browser cookies for the elog server. Sometimes an old cookie confuses the
access mechanism.

Stefan

Thanks for answering. Just tried your suggestion with different browsers
(firefox, chrome, brave) but the error message still appears when adding a
new user.

By the way, i justed noticed that if you click "back" followed by "cancel" you
enter the logbook as the user you just added. It seems that although elogd
throws an error, the user is added. Weird.

Since most of our users don't trust open source software, the error message
will only confuse them. So, is there any way to avoid this message from
appearing?

Perhaps a few words about our use case:
We are a german non profit organisation in disaster control. Since 2007 we use
elog as mobile mission journal in our unit. We adapted elog to run from
usb-stick, so all our first-responders have to do is to plug it into a laptop
and they are ready to go.
We also hand the adapted installation to other organisations like local fire
department or red cross units and offer them a short (2 hour) course on how to
use it. Since the windows-release is the most requested, it would be confusing
for them if an error message appears every time a new user is added.

So if you have any further ideas, I would appreciate that.

Uwe

>       Error: Command "config" is not allowed for user ""

Could it be related to the error messages thrown by "activate user"? see
https://elog.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/69479

K.O.

Hi, I have an issue with my local elog setup. it's usable but one function is just not working.

Problem

I'm getting weird error messages when trying to write or read entries from the CLI client.

I have googled a lot and most elog client examples are not giving the actual output, more like elog -h <host> -p <myport> -a ... -x -m "myfile" but I hope I got the options right.

Upgrading did not change the behaviour.

Question?

• anyone see problems in the commands I tried below
• with OSX in general
• have a recent setup on OSX that just works

Env

I'm running elog on my OSX laptop for tracking issues / improvements on client's IT systems. It's proven really good for storing my notes.

One "kink" is I kinda need both of them on the laptop since I cannot assume to have working network connectivity, i.e. when documenting network outages or datacenter maintenance where everything is off.

One thing I couldn't get to work was the CLI. Today I upgraded to the latest build, and tried again.

Env: OSX 12.4 (x86_64)

elog Client compiled from latest source tree (bcd7b50edd3d687425e6c5b0906dc02c8690a24e)

with minimal adjustments (turn off SSL since I can't get it right on OSX, rename two .c files in mxml to .cxx)

Outputs

$ echo "blah" | ./elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 8080 -l intern -r 2 -x
Cannot retrieve host name: Undefined error: 0
$ echo "blah" | ./elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 8080 -l intern -r 2 -x
Cannot retrieve host name: Undefined error: 0
$ host 127.0.0.1
1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer localhost.
$ elog -?
elogd 3.1.4 built Oct  8 2020, 03:14:21 revision 7c3fd00b
$ elog -?                                                                       
elogd 3.1.4 built Jul  5 2022, 18:23:30 revision bcd7b50e

As per the messages, I'm not entirely sure if it's an issue with the client or the server. upgrading both components made no difference.

Config

Theme = default
Comment = Logbuch Findings etc
Attributes = Context, Type, Category, Subject, ObjectPath
Options Context = global, intern, [redacted]
Options Type = Anpassung, Finding, Problem, Update, Auftrag, Planung
Options Category = General, Hardware, Software, Network, Other
Extendable Options = Category
Required Attributes = Context, Type, ObjectPath
Page Title = ELOG - $subject
Reverse sort = 1
Quick filter = Date, Context, Type

make output

$ gmake                                                
c++ -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -I/opt/local/include -o elog src/elog.cxx mxml.o crypt.o -L/opt/local/lib
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/opt/local/lib'
c++ -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -I/opt/local/include -w -c -o auth.o src/auth.cxx
c++ -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -I/opt/local/include -o elogd src/elogd.cxx auth.o mxml.o crypt.o -L/opt/local/lib
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/opt/local/lib'
c++ -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -I/opt/local/include -o elconv src/elconv.cxx -L/opt/local/lib
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/opt/local/lib'

$ ls -ltr
[...]
-rw-r--r--   1 floh  staff     4811  5 Jul 17:58 CMakeLists.txt
drwxr-xr-x  25 floh  staff      800  5 Jul 17:58 doc
drwxr-xr-x  10 floh  staff      320  5 Jul 17:58 scripts
drwxr-xr-x  13 floh  staff      416  5 Jul 17:58 src
drwxr-xr-x  10 floh  staff      320  5 Jul 18:15 mxml
-rw-r--r--   1 floh  staff    36424  5 Jul 18:15 mxml.o
-rw-r--r--   1 floh  staff     8784  5 Jul 18:15 crypt.o
-rw-r--r--   1 floh  staff     5886  5 Jul 18:23 Makefile
-rwxr-xr-x   1 floh  staff    90840  5 Jul 18:23 elog
-rw-r--r--   1 floh  staff     2976  5 Jul 18:23 auth.o
-rwxr-xr-x   1 floh  staff  1390664  5 Jul 18:23 elogd
-rwxr-xr-x   1 floh  staff    52112  5 Jul 18:23 elconv


$ sudo gmake install
Password:
install: elog -> /usr/local/bin/elog
install: elconv -> /usr/local/bin/elconv
install: elogd -> /usr/local/sbin/elogd
install: man/elog.1 -> /usr/local/man/man1//elog.1
install: man/elconv.1 -> /usr/local/man/man1//elconv.1
install: man/elogd.8 -> /usr/local/man/man8//elogd.8
install: scripts/ckeditor-config.js -> /usr/local/elog/scripts//ckeditor-config.js
install: scripts/dnd.js -> /usr/local/elog/scripts//dnd.js
install: scripts/elcode.js -> /usr/local/elog/scripts//elcode.js
install: scripts/im.js -> /usr/local/elog/scripts//im.js
install: scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js -> /usr/local/elog/scripts//jquery-1.11.1.min.js
install: scripts/load-ckeditor.js -> /usr/local/elog/scripts//load-ckeditor.js
Installing CKeditor to /usr/local/elog/scripts/ckeditor
Installing resources to /usr/local/elog/resources
Installing themes to /usr/local/elog/themes
Installing example logbook to /usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo
install: logbooks/demo/2001/011108a.log -> /usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo/2001/011108a.log
install: elogd.plist -> /Library/LaunchDaemons/ch.psi.elogd.plist
The elogd service can now be started with
  sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/ch.psi.elogd.plist

I just tried the same on my latpop (MacOSX 12.4) and it worked flawlessly:

ritt@MBP14 build % echo "blah" | ./elog -h 127.0.0.1 -p 8080 -l demo -r 2 -x
Message successfully transmitted, ID=3
ritt@MBP14 build % host 127.0.0.1
Host 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
ritt@MBP14 build % echo "blah" | ./elog -h localhost -p 8080 -l demo -r 2 -x
Message successfully transmitted, ID=4
ritt@MBP14 build %

So have you tried with the "-v" flag? Maybe your network is not correctly configured. You can also try the "curl" utility (see elog:68597), maybe you see some different error there. You get that via MacPorts.

Stefan