November 2001 - Zope

Eudora is scrambling my e-mails
by Vid Bijelic 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Hi, When Eudora users receive e-mails sent using Zope MailHost product, they got it all wrong. If I send HTML formatted text they got it as a plain text, if I attach PDF file they got it as a bunch of gibberish. I tried different type of encoding and nothing helped. When I try other e-mail clients, everything is fine. Vid __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1

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problem(100) could this make LoginManager misbehave?
by hamzatk＠3dresearch.com 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Hi, After alot trouble passed through to make LoginManager appeared in the products folder, yet i still experience this error when starting my zope server. Problem (100) init Ambigous name for method of Products.LoginManager.LoginMethods.BasicCookiesLogin: "manager_propertiesFor m" !="manager_main". I can see the LoginManager in the products folder my fear is that can this error cause the LM not to work well. regards. kamal.

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sql_delimiter (what it is, a user define object ?)
by hamzatk＠3dresearch.com 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Hi, I don't understand the useage of the word in this exp <dtml-var sql_delimiter>. It was used in the doc created by dlpierson on; using LoginManager with SQL and Skinscript. (http://www.zope.org/Members/dlpierson/sqlLogin) Right now I am having an error message with the SQL_add_user method define in this doc. SQL used: > Could not render the query template! Traceback (innermost last): > File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line > 223, in publish_module > File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line > 187, in publish > File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py, line 226, > in zpublisher_exception_hook > (Object: SQL_add_user) > File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line > 171, in publish > File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\mapply.py, line > 160, in mapply > (Object: manage_test) > File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line > 112, in call_object > (Object: manage_test) > File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\Shared\DC\ZRDB\DA.py, line > 400, in manage_test > (Object: SQL_add_user) > File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\Shared\DC\ZRDB\DA.py, line > 378, in manage_test > (Object: SQL_add_user) > File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\Shared\DC\ZRDB\DA.py, line > 486, in __call__ > (Object: SQL_add_user) > File C:\Program > Files\WebSite\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_String.py, line 544, in > __call__ > (Object: <string>) > File C:\Program Files\WebSite\lib\python\Shared\DC\ZRDB\sqlvar.py, > line 171, in render > (Object: member_id) > Missing Input: (see above). Willing to hear from you. Cheers! KAMAL.

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MySQL-python build error
by Raymond Norton 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

I am new to Zope and Linux, so I am not sure what to do about this error. >python setup.py build Traceback (innermost last): File "setup.py", line 6, in ? from distutils.core import setup ImportError: No module named distutils.core My Zope book also said I would have to edit setup.py to be sure the paths to the include and library directories in MySQL installation were correct. I did not see anything that referenced the paths above the line that said "Do not change anything below this line" In case it helps I have the following: RedHat 7.1 mysql 3.23.36 Database adapter ZMySQL-2.0.8 Database driver MySQL-python-0.9.0 Thanks in advance Raymond

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ZServer -> Apache/mod_proxy -> mod_gzip: Possible???
by Paul Horbal 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Hi everyone, I've searched high and low but I can't find any documentation for setting up mod_gzip to work with a Zope server (ZServer) being served through Apache's mod_proxy with the ProxyPass directives. Is this possible at the moment? Is there maybe a Zope product that handles gzipping served pages? This seems like a really good idea... I have mod_gzip working with Apache - other VirtualHosts on the same machine that aren't proxied serve gzipped pages - but apparently mod_proxy and mod_gzip don't like to play in the same sandbox. Other people have reported success using mod_rewrite instead... Is there some sort of performance hit you sustain in this case? If not, how do you set that up? =) thanks, Paul. -- Paul Horbal - ATIPS Web Manager horbal(a)atips.ca

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Re: Question about Ram Cache
by Chris Kratz 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

At the risk of answering my own question and for future reference. Found out the problem wasn't the ram cache after all. We had been using different style sheets depending on the browser you view each page with. Unfortunately, I had forgotten this fact. The header checks the string and then embeds the call to the appropriate style sheet in the page as it's generated. Of course, whomever got there first loaded the cache, and if you viewed the page from another browser, it looked like it was "corrupted". Settled on going back to a single Style sheet which took care of the problem. Also tested caching differing versions of pages dependent on the browser. Worked great, but of course that can eat up more memory per page. Thanks, -Chris ------------------------------ Chris Kratz chris.kratz(a)vistashare.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Kratz" <chris.kratz(a)vistashare.com> To: <zope(a)zope.org> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:04 AM Subject: Question about Ram Cache > Hello All, > > Recently, we have been doing a lot more caching of various parts of our > website. We have noticed two times over the last week that after a restart > and a long period of relative inactivity (overnight) that one of the pages > has gotten corrupted. Invalidating the page in the ram cache and forcing it > to reload takes care of the problem. The first time the HTML was corrupted > (parts were missing) and in the second case, none of the images (which are > also cached) would show even though those same images on other areas of the > website displayed correctly. > > The page is quite simple and includes only static text with a header and > footer that is generated with a date and the generation time for the page. > The only REQUEST variable is AUTHENTICATED_USER which means that all > anonymous views get the same cached page. Here are the other settings we > are using: > > Threshold entries: 1000 > Max Age: 3600 > Cleanup interval: 300 > > Also, there are no Names from the DTML namespace currently being used as > cache keys on the page in question. > > Since this is such a basic application of the Ram Cache, I am a little > surprised that we would be seeing this type of behavior. Anyone have any > ideas why this might be happening? > > RH 7.2, Zope 2.4.1, Python 2.1.1 > > Thanks, > > -Chris > ------------------------------ > Chris Kratz > chris.kratz(a)vistashare.com > >

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CMF learning curve and examples
by Jacob Singh 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

I really like CMF, but it is ridiculously ambiguous in its documentation and a lack of examples really makes it hard to envision it as an easy solution. Does anybody have any example CMF sites they could zexp and send to me? I really want squishdot functionality, but I want the benefit of being able to abstract the news story's meta-data and perform custom functions on it. And CMF seems like a much smarter choice for expansion. Thank you for your help. Jacob

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Re: FreeBSD compile error 2.4.x to 2.4.3
by Gary Poster 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Still no solution, but here's more data: When I re-download the python 2.1.1 source, I check and yes, there is no banana: the config folder does not exist and the Makefile.pre.in is in the top folder. I don't think I did anything funky with my Python installation; I certainly don't know why I would have! so I went into the inst directory and looked at do.py. In a fit of daring creativity, I deleted the "config" folder part from wheres_Makefile_pre_in and reran python w_pcgi.py from the top directory. This time, gears whirr for awhile longer maybe, then I get an exciting new traceback: Compiling extensions in lib/python cp /usr/local/lib/python2.1/Makefile.pre.in . make -f Makefile.pre.in boot PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python make: don't know how to make boot. Stop Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/zope/2.4.2/w_pcgi.py", line 111, in ? if __name__=='__main__': main(sys.argv[0]) File "/usr/local/zope/2.4.2/w_pcgi.py", line 109, in main import wo_pcgi; wo_pcgi.main(me) File "/usr/local/zope/2.4.2/wo_pcgi.py", line 105, in main import build_extensions File "/usr/local/zope/2.4.2/inst/build_extensions.py", line 102, in ? make('lib','python') File "/usr/local/zope/2.4.2/inst/do.py", line 134, in make do('make -f Makefile.pre.in boot PYTHON=%s' % sys.executable) File "/usr/local/zope/2.4.2/inst/do.py", line 104, in do if i and picky: raise SystemError, i SystemError: 512 What's up with this? Am I the only one to encounter this? I don't see anything when I search the Zope list... Trying to fix make errors is always yucky for me, cause I don't really know the tool. Does anyone think I should post this somewhere in addition, maybe? Is this a Zope bug, exactly? Maybe I'll put it in the collector and see what happens. Maybe. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary & Karyn" <garykaryn(a)earthlink.net> To: <zope(a)zope.org> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:01 PM Subject: FreeBSD compile error 2.4.x to 2.4.3 > I'm getting the following error trying to compile Zope 2.4.x to 2.4.3 > upgrade on FreeBSD > > Compiling extensions in lib/python > cp /usr/local/lib/python2.1/config/Makefile.pre.in . > cp: /usr/local/lib/python2.1/config/Makefile.pre.in: No such file or > directory > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/zope/2.4.2/w_pcgi.py", line 111, in ? > if __name__=='__main__': main(sys.argv[0]) > File "/usr/local/zope/2.4.2/w_pcgi.py", line 109, in main > import wo_pcgi; wo_pcgi.main(me) > File "/usr/local/zope/2.4.2/wo_pcgi.py", line 105, in main > import build_extensions > File "/usr/local/zope/2.4.2/inst/build_extensions.py", line 102, in ? > make('lib','python') > File "/usr/local/zope/2.4.2/inst/do.py", line 133, in make > do("cp %s ." % wheres_Makefile_pre_in()) > File "/usr/local/zope/2.4.2/inst/do.py", line 104, in do > if i and picky: raise SystemError, i > SystemError: 256 > > the python2.1 is a python that worked just fine for 2.4.2...However, unless > I am being incredibly stupid, it doesn't have a config folder: > Makefile.pre.in is in the top python2.1 folder. Has anyone else encountered > this, or feel the need to fix it? If not, I guess I'll dig in a bit...look > at "wheres_Makefile_pre_in", for instance... > > Thanks > > Gary >

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(no subject)
by Jim Nicholson 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

I run Zope's FTP listener on the standard FTP port (port 21) on my Linux servers. I need it there because some of the authors for my site are behind packet-filter firewalls that only allow their outbound FTP traffic to target servers on the standard port. It works well, except that I'm getting occasionally hammered by FTP scanners that connect as anonymous and start CWD'ing to varous directories (/cgi-bin, /home, /etc, etc.) looking for security holes. There's no security problem, because those locations don't exist, and anyway Zope denies access to them by anonymous. But it does busy my system a bit, especially when I get three or four anonymous connections all looping through 100+ possible directories with CWD. Is it possible to disable anonymous connections to the Zope FTP listener entirely? Just refuse the connections? I still might get DOSed, but it's less likely then having them actually connect. - Jim

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Writing to a file
by Beaudette, Sheree 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

The logic here is simple but I'm not sure about the code. Also not sure how or if I need to use Python (which I'm just learning). I'm in a zope dtml method called cldmSearchForm what I need to do from this method is: start a loop that loops through the SQL method clsqBanks until there are no more banks open a file which will be named something differently for each bank (i.e. bkbankidrom.txt) write a header of some sort start another loop which loops through the SQL method clsqOfficers until there are no more officers for each officer write the bankno, officer no, etc, then new line end officer loop close file end bank loop Hope someone can help!! Thanks in advance!!

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