[Zope-Coders] Signal forwarding

[Chris McDonough]

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 12:52, Toby Dickenson wrote:
> > Oh, the drama. ;-) 
> 
> I think he was shocked because google had missed a page ;-)

My carefully crafted ROBOTS.TXT worked... ;-)

> Short term, www.zope.org already has two nice howtos for this problem:
> http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/cron-zope/News001
> http://www.zope.org/Members/fritz/howto_compress_datafs_using_cron

I didn't know about these, thanks.  I still think that the necessity to
call in thru HTTP to perform a common administrative function eludes
most sysadmins.

> Long term, isnt this under the scope of 
> http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/InstallationAndConfiguration
> ?

Yes.  The current chrism-install-branch is "in the running" for a merge
into the trunk.  Thus, my interest. ;-)

> Signal numbers are a scarce resource. I think we should conserve signals for 
> operations that can not be performed through http (such as restarting the 
> server when medusa is wedged)

I am surprised at how few signals are available.  You're right.  But
packing is definitely an administrative function, and I think it
deserves some sort of first-class citizenship... maybe we'll work it out
when we come up with an admin socket server. ;-)

- C