September 2000 - Zope

Repost: zzLocale problems
by Danny William Adair 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

After installing zzLocale I get an "AttributeError" every time I try to add a ZGadfly Connection: ------------------------------------------------------ Traceback (innermost last): File C:\PROGRA~1\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 222, in publish_module File C:\PROGRA~1\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 187, in publish File C:\PROGRA~1\WebSite\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py, line 221, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: Traversable) File C:\PROGRA~1\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 171, in publish File C:\PROGRA~1\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: manage_addZGadflyConnectionForm) File C:\PROGRA~1\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 112, in call_object (Object: manage_addZGadflyConnectionForm) File C:\PROGRA~1\WebSite\lib\python\Products\ZGadflyDA\__init__.py, line 131, in manage_addZGadflyConnectionForm (Object: Traversable) File C:\Programme\WebSite\lib\python\Products\zzLocale\zzLocale.py, line 119, in __call__ (Object: addConnectionForm) AttributeError: dft_addConnectionForm ------------------------------------------------------ Right now I don't have the time to go take a deeper look at this (or isn't it that deep?), so I tried to DE-install zzLocale, just for now. Well: Zope(Win2k :-() won't work without it anymore!!! What I did was remove the product through the product management screen, then deleting the folder "Locales" in lib/python and the folder "zzLocale" in lib/python/Products and then restart Zope. Actually just vice versa of what I did when installing it... ------------------------------------------------------ 2000-08-31T13:35:20 ERROR(200) ZODB Couldn't load state for '\000\000\000\000\00 0\000\000\006' Traceback (innermost last): File C:\PROGRA~1\WebSite\lib\python\ZODB\Connection.py, line 447, in setstate ImportError: No module named zzLocale.zzLocale Traceback (innermost last): File "C:\Programme\WebSite\z2.py", line 554, in ? exec "import "+MODULE in {} File "<string>", line 1, in ? File "C:\PROGRA~1\WebSite\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py", line 144, in ? OFS.Application.initialize(c) File "C:\PROGRA~1\WebSite\lib\python\OFS\Application.py", line 317, in initial ize app.Control_Panel.initialize_cache() File "C:\PROGRA~1\WebSite\lib\python\ZODB\Connection.py", line 447, in setstat e state = unpickler.load() ImportError: No module named zzLocale.zzLocale ------------------------------------------------------ Who can help me with either one of the problems? (let me deinstall zzLocale or fix the gadfly creation error) TYVMIA, Danny _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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Announce: Squishdot 0.7.1 now available!
by Chris Withers 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

Squishdot 0.7.1 is now available from http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/Squishdot/ http://www.squishdot.org/Download/Squishdot The following changes were made: - Slightly updated roadmap. - Fixed bug that prevented deleting postings. If you run into problems, remember Squishdot has a mailing list at eGroups and a bug collector on SourceForge. The URL for the bug collector is: https://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=1083 cheers, Chris

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Migrating passwords from Apache to Zope?
by Marcin Kasperski 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

Is it possible to smoothly migrate accounts and passwords from Apache to Zope? More details: I keep Apache accounts in some file of the format username:encoded_password where username is plaintext username and encoded_password is the password encoded in the normal Unix way (via crypt function). I would like to migrate those accounts to Zope. I do not know the passwords and I would not like to ask users for them or force them to change the password. Is it possible? -- Serwis dla programistów, kącik mieszkaniowy: http://www.mk.w.pl | | Working overtime sucks the spirit and motivation out of a team. | Projects that require overtime to be finished on time will be late no | matter what you do. (Wells)

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PyWinTypes15.dll not found
by Jean Jordaan 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

Hi Zopers .. I've installed Zope to start as a service. It seems to work perfectly fine, but I notice messages like the following in the eventlog:: 2000/09/02 10:25:36 Application Popup Information None 26 N/A JEAN Application popup: python.exe - Unable To Locate DLL : The dynamic link library PyWinTypes15.dll could not be found in the specified path C:\programs\ZopeDev\lib\python\Products\LocalFS; .; C:\WINNT\System32; C:\WINNT\system; C:\WINNT; C:\Perl\bin\; C:\WINNT\system32; C:\WINNT; C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem; C:\Program Files\Network Associates\PGPNT; C:\Program Files\Resource Pro Kit\; c:\programs\vim\vim57; C:\programs\NcFTP; c:\cygwin\bin; c:\cygwin\usr\bin. (I broke the path into separate lines for clarity.) Now, when I examine the environment variables thru 'Control Panel|System|Advanced|Environment Variables', Zope does not feature. I also don't notice anything untoward when I examine the registry. The registry entry that starts Zope seems to be:: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\ZopeDev] "Type"=dword:00000010 "Start"=dword:00000002 "ErrorControl"=dword:00000001 "ImagePath"="C:\\Programs\\ZopeDev\\bin\\lib\\win32\\PythonService.exe" "DisplayName"="Zope (ZopeDev)" "ObjectName"="LocalSystem" @="" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\ZopeDev\Parameters] "start"="\"C:\\programs\\ZopeDev\\bin\\python.exe\" \"C:\\programs\\ZopeDev\\z2.py\" -S" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\ZopeDev\PythonClass] @="C:\\programs\\ZopeDev\\ZServer\\ZService.ZServerService" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\ZopeDev\Security] "Security"=hex:01,00,14,80,a0,00,00,00,ac,00,00,00,14,00,00,00,30,00,00,00,0 2,\ 00,1c,00,01,00,00,00,02,80,14,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,\ 00,00,02,00,70,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,18,00,fd,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,\ 05,12,00,00,00,4f,00,47,00,00,00,1c,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,\ 20,00,00,00,20,02,00,00,4f,00,4e,00,00,00,18,00,8d,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,\ 00,00,05,0b,00,00,00,20,02,00,00,00,00,1c,00,fd,01,02,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,\ 00,05,20,00,00,00,23,02,00,00,4f,00,4e,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,\ 00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00 (This also occurs as [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\ZopeDev] except that the 'ControlSet001' version has an additional key, 'Enum':: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\ZopeDev\Enum] "0"="Root\\LEGACY_ZOPEDEV\\0000" "Count"=dword:00000001 "NextInstance"=dword:00000001 Now for the questions: - What is the difference between the 'ControlSet002' version and the 'ControlSet001' version? - How and where does 'LocalFS' get into the path? - Why isn't 'C:\programs\ZopeDev\bin\lib\win32\PyWinTypes15.dll' found? - What, for that matter, is the difference between *that* PyWinTypes15 and this one: 'C:\programs\ZopeDev\bin\PyWinTypes15.dll'? Any answers sorely appreciated! Regards, -- Jean Jordaan -- technical writer -- Mosaic Software -- Zope 2.1.6 on WinNT and W2K

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Mime types for email attachments
by Brendon Grunewald 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

I am battling to find the information needed to attach word, excel, and pdf documents to an email based on the input from a form. I know that there is a howto that uses a python method, but I do not want to use this option. Where can I get the necessary mime types and structure to accomplish this? This is what I have so far:  To: <dtml-var Email_address> From: WebForm <Webmaster(a)mysite.com> Subject: Web doc request <dtml-mime type=text/plain encode=7bit> Attached is the document you requested. <dtml-boundary type=application/<dtml-var Doc_Type> disposition=attachment encode=quoted-printable> <dtml-var <dtml-var Requested_Document>> </dtml-mime>  Thanks Brendon ------------------ 70South: the No.1 source for Antarcticles. For the latest news and views on Antarctica visit : http://www.70south.com

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Regaining lost privileges
by Andrew Kenneth Milton 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

Is there anyway to regain 'root' privs from inside a zope product? Using the -u flag to start causes the privs to be permanently gone because z2.py uses setuid + setgid (and python doesn't seem to define sete[ug]id, at least not on my system). Other than running zope as root permanently (which I really would like to avoid), does anyone have any quick ideas on how to achieve this? I saw people asking about building 'admin' systems using Zope, this isn't going to be trivially possible without super user privs. -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | ACN: 082 081 472 ABN: 83 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 | Carpe Daemon PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm(a)theinternet.com.au|

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The difference between ControlSet 001 and 002 ..
by Jean Jordaan 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

Answering myself, from the Resource Pro Kit: .................................................................. The <ControlSet00n> subkeys represent a control set for the system. The numbered ControlSet00n subkeys, such as ControlSet001 and ControlSet002, contain control sets that can be used to start and run Windows 2000. Most systems have two numbered control sets, an original and a backup copy of a control set that has been used to start the system successfully, but the system can maintain as many as four control sets. Windows 2000 maintains backup copies so that you can undo configuration changes that might otherwise prevent you from starting the system. .................................................................. So that's that, anyway. For the record, the current one in my case was number 1. -- Jean Jordaan -- technical writer -- Mosaic Software -- Zope 2.1.6 on WinNT and W2K

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How do I start ?
by Willem Oudyk 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

Hi, I have just discovered Zope and am interested in developing a web based application but I don't know where to start. While I am going through the documentation, which will be of help no doubt, I hope these initial questions attract some replies. Here are some of my starting requirements; 1) I need to create a small DB retrieval(mainly) system with only 000's of records and possibly 00's of users. 2) Only a few nominated users will have update rights to the data. 3) The user needs to be able to search for all occurrences of any of the data items presented to them 4) It seems the users have a UNIX infrastructure with an existing DB that is ODBC compliant and has data items which I need to retrieve and update. 5) Re: this last point, I'm not sure of yet if my app also needs to be hosted by the UNIX server or whether it can have it's own server and simply make ODBC calls to the UNIX box. I also don't know what would be preferable. I guess having it all on the same box is more efficient. 6) I am based in Australia and if anyone is in the same timezone (ie. Melbourne) it would be great to make personal contact. I hope someone out there can point me in the right direction. ------------------------------------------------- Willem Oudyk 14 Fortescue Grove Vermont Sth. Victoria 3133 Australia Ph/Fax: +61 (3) 9887 9121 mailto:willem@pangaea.nu Web:www.pangaea.nu -------------------------------------------------

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initialize()
by Kevin Howe 04 Sep '00

04 Sep '00

I've noticed that some ZOPE Python Products define an initialize() routine in their __init__.py file and some don't. From what I can tell it is not really needed, but simply offers a more organized way of registering the Product. Is it good practice to define initialize(), and if so, why + what does it do? kh

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Retrieving ROWID's from Oracle crashes python
by Ayhan Ergul 03 Sep '00

03 Sep '00

Zope has been dying silently with the following configuration: Zope version: Zope 2.2.1 (binary release, python 1.5.2, linux2-x86) Python version: 1.5.2 (#10, Dec 6 1999, 12:16:27) [GCC 2.7.2.3] System Platform: linux2 ZOracleDA-2.2.0b1 Oracle 8i (8.1.6.1) Not being able to figure out what the problem was, I replicated the site on WinNT zope. Crashes repeated there too with NT popping up a dialog box telling that python.exe could not read some memory location. I tracked the problem down to a query that returned ROWID's from an Oracle table. Upon rewriting the query to eliminate the need for ROWID's, crashes went away and Zope has been up since. Anybody had a similar experience? Is it a problem with DCOracle included? Ayhan

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