-Starting from version 2.2.0 on, a page with the last messages is displayed by default. To display
-something else, one can use the Start page option in elogd. The entry:
+One can use the Start page option for that. The entry:
Start page = 0?cmd=last
-shows the last entry by default (pre-2.2.0 behaviour). To show all messages, one can use:
-
-Start page = ?cmd=Search&mode=summary&all=1
-
-This shows all messages from all logbooks (all=1). To have the described behaviour for
+shows the last message entry by default. To have the described behaviour for
all logbooks, the above statements can be placed in the [global] section.
-
No. The idea behind ELOG is that it is a simple to use, simple to install application. Many people use ELOG under Windows, and they even don't know what MySQL means. Other people like the flat file database format, because it's simple, easily accessible from other programs, and it's easy to backup certain days or months of the database (since the filenames contain the date). Since ELOG should be independent of any other package, some "switchable" backend between native ELOG format and MySQL would be needed, which is lots of work and not planned right now.
-
No. The ELOG daemon was designed as a standalone server and it will stay like that in the future.
The reason for that is that elogd should not rely on any other software. This is for
@@ -59,7 +71,7 @@ therefore becomes much simpler. To run elogd in parallel to
port 80, use Apache as a proxy, following the instruction on the installation page
("Running elogd under Apache").
-
By default, no password is used in ELOG. This can be useful for public directories etc. that anybody should be able to read. To add password security, read the documentation under Note that passwords are transferred over the network in plain text and therefore not secure. If this is a problem, a secure network connection should be used.
-
Use the URL:
@@ -82,7 +94,7 @@ This executes the "Last" command using a filter with <attribute>=&l Note the "l" before the second attribute, as in "lAuthor=1".
-
In an old version of the FAQ it has been stated here that one has to use two logbooks pointing to the same data directory. From Version 2.0.6 on, this can be accomplished much easier by the usage @@ -107,41 +119,30 @@ Self register = 1 in the configuration file. New users can then create their own accounts.
-
You can have several logbooks point to the same password file. So if you change a user or password in that file, it becomes automatically available in all logbooks which use that file.
-
-There is a simple trick. You use the "Welcome page" option in the elogd file
-to redirect the start page to the last 10 command. Put the statement:
+There is a simple trick. You use the "Start page" option in the elogd file
+to redirect the start page to something else. Here are some examples:
-Welcome page = redir.html --into
elogd and create that file with following contents:
--
-<head> -<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=/logbook/last10"> -</head> --This causes the welcome page being redirected to /logbook/last10, where logbook must be replaced by the current logbook name. Following other redirections are possible: -
-
-/logbook/last20 for the last 20 messages and so on -/logbook/past1 for the last day -/logbook/past2 for the last two days and so on -/logbook?cmd=New for the new message entry form -/logbook?cmd=Find for the "find" page -/logbook?cmd=Search&<attrib>=<value> for a search with <attrib>=<value> +?npp=5 for the last 5 messages +?last=7 show last 7 days (week) +?cmd=New show the new message entry form +?cmd=Find Show the "find" page +?cmd=Search&<attrib>=<value> for a search with <attrib>=<value>-
+ +
New commands can be added for example with the "Bottom text = bottom.html" option.
To display all messages from last week and month of with "category = info", one can put
@@ -154,11 +155,11 @@ following HTML code in bottom.html:
</center>
-Note that the parameters "last=7&Category=Info" apply a filter on the display. You can learn
+Note that the parameters "last=7&Category=Info" applies a filter on the display. You can learn
how to make these filters by looking at the URL in your browser when you submit a find
command with certain options.
-
This works with the option Menu commands. By default, the menu commands
@@ -171,13 +172,45 @@ statement into :
This prohibits the execution of the commands "Edit" and "Delete".
elogd.cfg
+
+There are two ways: +
+ +
+Attributes = Author, ..., Revisions +Locked attributes = Revisions +Subst on Edit Revisions = $Revisions<br>$date by $long_name ++ +The "Revisions" attribute cannot be modified manually (since it's locked). On each edit, the +date and the current author is appedned to the previous revisions. The "<br>" puts a +line break between the entries.
+ +
+ +
+Reply string = "" ++ +then the reply contains the original message without the usual "> " at the beginning of +each line. One can then edit the message and submit it. In the threaded message list display, +one sees then the different revisions as a message thread.
+ +