Elog Notes

In [cesr.elog.com], elog.com gives the main menu and picks the editor via elog_edit_menu.com. Next elog_entry.com is called. Here a time stamp is obtained, and an entry file is created in the [cesr.elog.scr] area from elog_blank.com. The editor is then opened with an [cesr.elog.ini]elogini default initialization. Gold key definitions are defined in this ini file. Once the editor is finished, control returns mid-stream to elog_entry, which asks for confirmation on posting as well as choices for re-entering and condensing the message. Elog_entry then mails the entry to cesr29::elog. Images that are included in an entry get processed with [cesr.elog.com]hyper_image.com which sends a separate email to cesr29::elog. When the image arrives it is processed by [cesr.elog.com]in_image_copy.com

On cesr29, elog has a file [elog]mail.delivery that allows filtering on incoming messages and issue commands to be processed. With normal entries, the command processed is to run [cesr.elog.com]elog_incoming.com. This generates a new file with a time stamp: [cesr.elog.scr]term_*.html. It removes the mail program header with [cesr.elog.com]head_remove.com, appends the entry to the current day's file, and sends out attention emails.

Scoreboard code is on lnscu4 under /httpd/perl/

Elog cgi code is on cesrweb under /mnt/web/html/elog/ELOG/elog-bin

Troubleshooting

• If the mail is not not getting through to cesr29::elog, there is a very good chance the mail$batch queue has stopped. You can check this with show queue mail$batch. The queue should be idle. If it is stopped, someone with system rights needs to start/queue mail$batch.
• Likewise, if the com, head, text trio of mail files starts accumulating in u:[elog], the PMDF_DELIVER_BATCH has probably stopped or hung. It will need to be restarted as above.
• If the day headers are not in the week directories on the control system, (they should be there ahead of time), you need to run [cesr.elog.com.make]make_days.com in that directory. This should be setup correctly when making a new year.
• If the links are not appearing on the bottom of the daily elog pages, it's possible the elog queue was emptied accidentally. To take care of the previous day's links and submit the job to the queue for the next day, run [cesr.elog.com.auto]elog_timer as elog.
• If the beamloss entries are not getting updated for elog entry, comet probably isn't triggering, try doing an ldinit.