January 2004 - Zope - Zope lists

set TEMPDIR in 2.7-b4
by v.schnabel＠aperto.de 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

i try ti import more data than available disk space at /tmp and get an IO-Error "Not enough disk space" when using 2.7-b2 i changed the environment variable TMPDIR in /instance_home/bin/zopectl, like export TMPDIR=/place/with/more/space but this is not working anymore when using 2.7-b4 did i made a mistake or did they changed the variable-name or whats going wrong thanx for help veiko

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Re: Zope on cygwin incredibly slow?
by Josef Meile 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

> Hi ya, > > has anyone cure for Zope running increbli slow on WinXP and cygwin? It > seems that every single request takes many seconds before anything is > returned to the browser. On the same hardware Zope runs atleast 10 times > faster while booted on linux and a little bit faster if I am running > Zope's windows-binaries. What's about this: http://www.mingw.org/index.shtml it is a minimal version of unix. It has also a gnu c compiler and it is easier to install than cygwin. I don't know if it has some restriction, but you could give it a try. I have already compiled a package with it (SWIG to be more specific) and it worked as expected. Perhaps you could try to compile zope on it and try to run it from its minimal shell. Ah, and short time ago, somebody on the list already mentioned psyco (http://psyco.sourceforge.net/) to speed up the excecution of python code. Perhaps you could also take a look at it. Here is how to integrate it to zope: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.user/6468/match=psyco According to that article, it seems to work; however, I will bet that it was tested on a linux system and not under cygwin. (The author neither specify the system nor the zope version). Regards, Josef

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Playing with Zope X3
by Florian Lindner 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hello, is there any kind of tutorial/How-To move form Zope 2 to 3? Or just a beginners tutorial of Zope X3? I just want to play a bit with Zope X3 but I don't really get the point of Zope 3 without a tutorial. I've knowledge about Zope 2. Thx, Florian

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cannot change property of type lines permanently
by Marcus Bergmann 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi, I'm trying this: <dtml-call "calendar.mailaddresses.remove(REQUEST.mailaddress)"> where 'calendar' is a folder, 'mailaddresses' is a property of it (type is lines) and 'mailaddress' is a variable the DTML method received via an HTML form. After the request, the removed line entry seems to be gone. It's not shown in the ZMI or in my HTML site which shows me the mailaddresses. But if I restart Zope the removed line is there again. Also if I copy the folder, then the copy shows me the removed entry in its properties. Any suggestions? Thank you, Marcus

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Zope Newbies
by John Poltorak 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

I understand that there is a web site for Zope Newbies. Is there a mailing list to go with it? -- John

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Checking dynamic permissions
by Gilles Lenfant 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi, I need a fine grained permisssion for a certain category of (authenticated) users. Defining a role/permissions mapping is not enough : Each authenticated user is granted to proceed operations up to a certain amount, depending on his/her supposed skills. When the user attempts to proceed an operation that exceeds that amount, the permission for some objects/methods must be denied. Of course, I need to make my own user folder for this (exUserFolder based ?) Many thanks for any pointer that may help me to achieve this while keeping as "standard" as possible within the Zope security standards (using the roles/permissions ... stuff) Cheers -- Gilles Lenfant Pilot Systems - 66, rue de Provence - 75009 Paris Tel : +33 1 44 53 05 55 - www.pilotsystems.net Hébergement Zope et Plone gratuit - http://www.objectis.org

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DateTime and propertysheets
by David Sumner 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hello, I have created a Product with a ZClass. The ZClass has a propertysheet with a date property. When creating an instance of this product I try to call the manage_editProperties method and modify the value of another non date property and I receive an Invalid Date-Time String. Now, I am not attempting to modify a date property but am still getting this error whenever I tried to change a value on the same propertysheet as a date property. If I try to change the date value to a valid date time value, I still receive the same error. Thanks

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Re: Re: [Zope] NTLM authentication
by Boon Hoo 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

you can obtain info on the user logon id, domain and hostname from the ntlm string passed by the browser. we tried that previously using java servlets on weblogic sitting behind IIS. you can search for more info by typing "ntlm servlet authentication" in google, e.g. http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=1045412 > > From: "Bobb" <rawbobb(a)hotmail.com> > Date: Mon 19/01/2004 3:8 AM GMT+08:00 > To: "Matt Hamilton" <matth(a)netsight.co.uk>, > <zope(a)zope.org> > Subject: Re: [Zope] NTLM authentication > > My 2cents... > > NTLM support is non-existant from m$ as of 12/2003. nt4 also. It's not a > big deal until you need a patch, and with Security, you don't want to need a > patch for that. IMO. > I'd go with ldap (not saying that the m$ solution is pure ldap, but every NT > organization has to face either > Active Directory or something else eventually) Or something else... but I'd > def. shelve NTLM for any > development as of last month. > > Just an opinion. > > Bobb > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt Hamilton" <matth(a)netsight.co.uk> > To: <zope(a)zope.org> > Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 11:25 AM > Subject: [Zope] NTLM authentication > > > > Dear All, > > > > We are working with an organisation that wish to use NTLM HTTP > > authenication with Zope. They currently use MSIE and IIS and are able > > to use the original login credentials supplied when the use logged in to > > their workstation. So far we have identified two possible routes, both > > involve using Zope in REMOTE_USER mode (something in front of Zope does > > then authentication, Zope then does the authorisation based on the > > REMOTE_USER variable): > > > > 1) Use Zope with/behind IIS and use IIS to do the authentication > > 2) Use Apache in front of Zope and mod_ntlm to do authentication > > > > Has anyone else tried this any experiences to report? We have not > > finalised the server platform yet, so are open to both Windows and unix > > based solutions, however all being equal we would prefer unix as we may > > be using certain external libraries (PIL, gd, gs, etc.). > > > > -Matt > > > > -- > > > > Matt Hamilton > > matth(a)netsight.co.uk > > Netsight Internet Solutions, Ltd. Business Vision on > > the Internet > > http://www.netsight.co.uk +44 > > (0)117 9090901 > > Web Hosting | Web Design | Domain Names | Co-location | DB Integration > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > > (Related lists - > > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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Is Zope 2.6.3 stable?
by Petter Holmström 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hello, Since I installed Zope 2.6.3 on our test-server it has become extremely unstable. I get I/O-errors all the time and the server dies at least once a day. This did not happen with Zope 2.6.2. We're running it on Python 2.2.3. And, as always, there are no useful information whatsoever in any error-logs, which I find rather frustrating. Does anybody know if 2.6.2 is in fact more stable than 2.6.3? Or is it possible than one of our Plone-products is causing the server to kill itself? (It usually die when no-one is using it.) -Petter-

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Navigation menu
by Michael Havard 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

I've been looking for a navigation menu/sitemap for ZOPE. I've found a few but the output is not very well formed. Essentially every tool I've found outputs something similar to this: <div class="item" style="text-indent:35">  Item </div> <div class="item" style="text-indent:65">  Child Item </div> The problem here is that the html structure doesn't intrisicly show any relationship between the two levels. The code just shows levels by using text-indent or margins or in some code table cells. What I'm looking for would display the sitemap/navigation in a format like this: <ul> <li>Item <ul> <li>Child Item</li> </ul> </li> </ul> This structure has the element relationship built in by design. Does anyone know of a product that does this or have a code snippet they could pass my way. Thanks. _________________________________________________________________

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