[Zope] Re: Cron & Receiving email

[Chris Beaumont]

If you have access to a machine anywhere on the net that is running 
Linux or another Unix variant, here's an admittedly low-tech but very 
useful solution to this problem. (for some reason, my Zope wouldnt 
boot with Xron, so I was forced to look elsewhere and I found this..)

I've found that either lynx or wget running on a cron job works 
*very* well for doing things like this.. (scheduling events in a Zope 
somewhere, really anywhere where the cron-triggered lynx can send it 
a request..the Zope can even be running on NT.. *laugh*)

Its also a great way to grab (to mirror) pages created on a Zope 
server for use on other machines running conventional Apache, etc. 
Use 'lynx source' running from cron on the other machine to save the 
file to disk at regular intervals..This can also be a great way to 
deal with situations in which certain pages get very high traffic 
that it might make sense to divert away from Zope..

The only gotcha for newbies is that when running it from cron, you 
have to make sure that lynx has a "term" variable set.. (vt220 always 
works well for me)

You can do this by adding this to your shell script at the beginning 
of the command line that invokes lynx.. There's a how-to about this 
somewhere if you look around. This combination is rock solid reliable.


Chris

>  > 1) Is there a cron-like tool in Zope? Or a way to have cron
>  > run a process in Zope?
>