ELOG cannot open /etc/elogd.cfg error
When I attempted to add a new entry with a new category to an
ELOG logbook on
a Linux system,
I saw the error message below:
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Cannot open file /etc/elogd.cfg: Permission denied |
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I checked the file permissions
on the elogd.cfg configuration file and saw the following:
# ls -l /etc/elogd.cfg
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 785 Jul 16 14:47 /etc/elogd.cfg
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So only the root account had write access to the file. I then checked to
see which account elogd was running under. The program lisens on port 8080
on that system. If you don't know the port that is being used for ELOG, you
can find it in the /etc/elogd.cfg file. E.g.:
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ELOG Logbooks Location
I moved my
ELOG logbooks
from one laptop to another. After installing ELOG on the new
laptop, I needed to tell ELOG where to look for logbooks, since
by default it expects logbooks to be in the
logbooks
directory beneath the installation directory, e.g.
C:\Program Files\ELOG\logbooks. To
do so, I took the following steps:
- Open
elogd.cfg, which is stored in the ELOG
installation directory, e.g. C:\Program Files\ELOG\elogd.cfg,
with Notepad from an administrator account.
- In the
global section add a Logbook dir =
<directory> line where <directory> is
the directory where you wish to have the logbooks stored. Note:
don't use quotes around directory names, even if there are spaces
in the names of directories in the path to the logbook directory. E.g.:
[global]
port = 8080
logbook dir = C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\ELOG\logbooks
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You then need to create a section in
elogd.cfg for the
logbook. Put the name of the logbook between "[" and "]" and then
add the relevant lines for that particular logbook. E.g.:
[sysadmin]
Theme = default
Comment = System Administration
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Options Type = Configuration, Malware Scan, Patches, Problem, Problem Fixed, Routine, Software Installation, Upgrade, Other
Options Category = General, Hardware, Software, Network, Security, Other
Options Author = John Smith
Required Attributes = Author
- Save the modified
elogd.cfg.
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Restart ELOG, which you can do from an administrator account from the
command line using the following commands:
C:\>net stop elogd
The elogd service is stopping.
The elogd service was stopped successfully.
C:\>net start elogd
The elogd service is starting.
The elogd service was started successfully.
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Adding a Link to a Local File in ELOG
I had some initial difficulties adding a link in an ELOG entry for a
file stored locally on the server on which ELOG was running. I discovered
that I needed to prepend a timestamp to the file name when placing it
in the directory where entries are stored for the relevant logbook and
then use that prepended timestamp as part of the path to the file in
the
URL.
E.g. for a file called samplefile.txt, I had to store it in
the logbook directory as 080808_110230_samplefile.txt where
080808 represented the date for the file, August 8, 2008, and
110230 represented a timestamp for the file, i.e. 11:02:03 A.M.
The date is in yymmdd format. I was then able to use
http://server.example.com/sysadmin/080808_110230/samplefile.txt
as the URL for the link in the logbook entry. I placed the
080808_110230 between slashes and followed it by the orginal
filename.
I was then able to access the file through a link in the logbook entry.
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ELOG Port Configuration
I installed the
Electronic Logbook
(ELOG) package developed by Stefan Ritt on a Windows Small Business
Server (SBS) 2003 system to track work I do on the system. By default,
ELOG uses port 8080, but I already had other webserver software listening
on that port, so I changed the listening port for ELOG. I also configured
ELOG to support SSL, i.e. to accept HTTPS connections. I also set a
read and write password for access to the logbook I created.
Port Configuration
SSL Configuration
Password Configuration
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