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• We're using the [https://midas.psi.ch/elog/ Electronic Logbook] software by [https://midas.psi.ch/~stefan/ Steffan Ritt]. The elog is installed on Nodus under /cvs/cds/caltech/elog/elog-2.8.0/.

• It can be accessed from either the address: http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/ or from the old one on Dziban http://dziban.ligo.caltech.edu:40/40m/.

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Manual Restart procedure

• The elog runs on background in Nodus. To kill the process, ssh nodus and then enter:

• {{{ pkill -3 elogd rm -f /var/run/elogd.pid }}}

• To restart it enter:

• ./elogd -p 8080 -c /cvs/cds/caltech/elog/elog-2.8.0/elogd.cfg -D 

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The restarting script

• The following scripts executes the above commands for you if you are feeling particularly lazy or lost
  • 1. Log into nodus
  • 2. Go to /cvs/cds/caltech/elog/
  • 3. Run ./start-elog-nodus

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FCKeditor (HTML Editor)

• A little subprogram called FCKeditor is responsible for the text editing interface that appears when the HTML encoding is chosen as a way to write/edit an entry. If the make command is used to compile the elog, the FCKeditor fails to be installed.

• In that case, during the installation of the elog, one has just to go inside the path /cvs/cds/caltech/elog/elog-2.7.5/scripts/ and simply unzip the file fckeditor.zip. That's it.

Enabling the browser's context menu

• The context menu is that one which pops up when right clicking with the mouse.
  • attachment:contextmenu.png

• Under FCKeditor, the context menu is disabled by default. To enable it, one has to modify the FCKeditor config file /cvs/cds/caltech/elog/elog-2.7.5/scripts/fckeditor/fckconfig.js by setting the field FCKConfig.BrowserContextMenuOnCtrl = false ; to true.

• Then to get the browser's context menu, instead of FCKeditor's, one has to hold <CTRL> when right clicking with the mouse.

• Sometime clearing the cash of the browser might be necessary in order for the change to have effect.