1. If you can use the management interface, you can disable a Xron Scheduled Method by deleting it from the Schedule catalog or setting its reschedule interval to null. 2. If you delete (or just rename __init__.py to something else in) the Xron Product. And restart Zope, there will be no Dispatcher to execute Xron Scheduled Methods; so looping will stop. 3. The messages in the log file should indicate what kind of error the Xron Dispatcher is encountering. If this is some kind of environmental condition, perhaps you can fix it external to Zope and the Dispatcher will stop looping. 4. The Dispatcher is designed to cancel erring Xron Scheduled Method, precisely so that it will not go into a loop. The fact that it seems to be looping indicated some very unusual condition. Please let us know what the log file says. 5. You can truncate the bloated tail end of a Data.fs file using standard system tools. I don't remember how right at the moment, but a search in the mail archives on trucate and data.fs might be fruitful. Don't throw away the original file, because you might truncate other transactions that you wanted to save. IOW, finding the right spot to truncate is the trick. -- HTH -- Loren

-----Original Message----- From: zope-dev-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-dev-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Espen Sorbye Frederiksen Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 13:06 To: zope-dev@zope.org Subject: [Zope-dev] Xron error!!!

My Xron file has gone crazy and does not stop running. I have stopped my server and started it again, but the xron file is still running. This causes the Z2.log file and Data.fs files to grow to enormous files and I struggle to be able to log into the system.

First: Can I delete the overloaded Data.fs file in the var/ directory, or will this cause serious trouble?

Secondly: Is there a cure against that void Xron file of mine or must I manually delete it from were my own files are stored?

Thanks for any kind of help,

Espen

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