From e753f2a6718f4b78cb85f1e353ba3641de9446bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Ritt Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:59:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note about new file name YYMMDDa.log SVN revision: 443 --- doc/adminguide.html | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/adminguide.html b/doc/adminguide.html index 11ae4740..09abaa85 100755 --- a/doc/adminguide.html +++ b/doc/adminguide.html @@ -327,21 +327,20 @@ Web server, which does not serve files like standard Web servers, but reads logbook entries from its database and formats them into HTML. Since only forms and tables are used, no Java or Javascript is necessary, which makes the logbook display very fast. The system does not use any images on purpose to reduce the amount of data to be transferred. Since the ELOG daemon contains its own http server, no additional server like Apache is required.

-The "database" in which ELOG saves its entries is in plain ASCII format. One file is -created for each day in the form YYMMDD.log (where -YY is the year, MM the month and DD the day). The only non-ASCII character -is a form-feed at the end of each message. If a log file is sent directly -to a printer, each message is therefore printed on a separate page. Note -that the log files should not be edited manually, since this could invalidate -the internal database structure (each header contains the message length -in bytes, which would then become incorrect). -

+The "database" in which ELOG saves its entries is in plain ASCII format. +One file is created for each day in the form YYMMDDa.log +(where YY is the year, MM the month and DD the day). For ELOG versions 1.x.x, +the format was YYMMDD.log. Messages are separated internally +by the string $@MID@$. If this string is entered in a message +(main body text or attribute), it gets converted automatically in order not +to invalidate the database structure.

+ If attachments are submitted, they are saved as separate files named YYMMDD_HHMMSS_name - where in addition to the date the time is specified and name is the original file name of the attachment. To copy the database to another computer, only the *.log files and the attachment files need to be copied. To copy for example all -files from March 2001, just select them with 0103??.log +files from March 2001, just select them with 0103??a.log and 0103??_*.