October 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

working crontab restart script on FreeBsd
by George Osvald 01 Oct '00

01 Oct '00

I was trying to do this for a little while so in case anyone's interested, here it is. Most of the code was kindly sent to me by other people so do not blame me for the mistakes. This script(auto) checks ZOPE every 15'th minute and if it does not run, it will restart it. It has been working without a problem on FreeBSD 4.0 after I patched ZOPE's pidfile for LF's. (without that little operation it returns an error message and restarts ZOPE every time without checking it) I am running this from crontab: SHELL=/bin/sh 0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/user/auto And this script(auto) is sitting in my user directory: #!/bin/sh ZOPEDIR="/home/user/zope" INFOMAIL="mail(a)okstudio.com.au" STARTFILE="$ZOPEDIR/start" STOPFILE="$ZOPEDIR/stop" PIDFILE="$ZOPEDIR/var/Z2.pid" PID1ACTIVE=0 PID2ACTIVE=0 if [ -x $STARTFILE ]; then if [ -r $PIDFILE ]; then PID1=`cut -d" " -f1 $PIDFILE` PID2=`cut -d" " -f2 $PIDFILE` if kill -0 $PID1 2>/dev/null then PID1ACTIVE=1 fi if kill -0 $PID2 2>/dev/null then PID2ACTIVE=1 fi fi if [ $PID1ACTIVE -eq 0 -o $PID2ACTIVE -eq 0 ]; then $STOPFILE >/dev/null 2>&1 sleep 10 $STARTFILE date | mail -s"Zope restarted" $INFOMAIL >/dev/null 2>&1 fi fi Regards, George

1 0

handling date properties in <dtml-if>
by Timothy Wilson 01 Oct '00

01 Oct '00

Hi everyone, I've created a simple ZClass to allow our Human Resources dept. to post job openings on our Web site. There's a DTML method that iterates through a folder containing all of the 'Job Board Entry' instances and displays them in an HTML table. No problem there. The ZClass has a number of properties including two dates, 'date_posted' for the date that the job is officially available and 'offer_expires' for the date the job opening officially closes. I want to display only those jobs for which the current date is on or after the 'date_posted' and on or before 'offer_expires'. I've tried a bunch of things, but haven't hit upon the winning answer. Any takers? -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ wilson(a)visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/

3 2

One page for different selections
by Rafael Sep�lveda 01 Oct '00

01 Oct '00

Is there a way to make a variable change its value depending which 'href' the user clicks in order to change the contents of the next page viewed? For example, I want to have a page with six links, and depending which of them the user clicks, a variable will change its value so the next page will display that data refered on the link clicked. Is there a way to do this without having six files, one for each other; just having one file with that variable? -- Rafael Sepúlveda <rsepulveda(a)linuxmty.org> http://www.linuxmty.org/people/rsepulveda 1024D/1981FDE7 F13B C41C 739B 7233 F738 D68E 2947 D868 1981 FDE7

2 1

Re: [Zope] Use variable value by other file
by Rafael Sep�lveda 01 Oct '00

01 Oct '00

Dieter Maurer <dieter(a)handshake.de> writes: > It is not necessary for "standard_html_footer" to be > in the same folder than your file. Yes, I realize that it was a mistake in the variable name: - instead of a _. -- Rafael Sepúlveda <rsepulveda(a)linuxmty.org> http://www.linuxmty.org/people/rsepulveda 1024D/1981FDE7 F13B C41C 739B 7233 F738 D68E 2947 D868 1981 FDE7

1 0

DTMLTemplate on Zope 2.2.1
by Stefan H. Holek 01 Oct '00

01 Oct '00

I a trying to make the DTMLTemplate Product work on Zope 2.2.1 No luck so far ;( I can add a DTMLTemplate instance but when I try to edit it, I get: Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: TypeError Error Value: first argument must be sequence of strings Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/Zope-2.2.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 222, in publish_module File /usr/local/Zope-2.2.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 187, in publish File /usr/local/Zope-2.2.1-src/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 221, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: MyBlocks) File /usr/local/Zope-2.2.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 165, in publish File /usr/local/Zope-2.2.1-src/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 271, in recordMetaData TypeError: (see above) I believe it worked with Zope 2.1.6. Any hints appreciated. Stefan -- Stefan H. Holek, stefan(a)epy.co.at

1 0

XMLRPC:XML Compressors - anybody experienced it?
by Philipp Auersperg 01 Oct '00

01 Oct '00

Since XML blows lots of overhead over the line sending large amounts of data via XML becomes a performance question. There exist XML-compressors, for example XMill that address this problem. What I need is integrating such an XML compressor into the Zope XMLRPC mechanism, Before I do something that is already done by somebody else: Did anybody play with XML compressors for Zope or at least have a hint how to do that? thanks

2 1