Hello Hung, Friday, December 17, 1999, 11:53:05 AM, you wrote: HJL> How does one set up scheduled tasks in Zope (like automatically backing up HJL> files, automatically uploading newer versions of HTML files onto ZODB once a HJL> day, etc.)? I searched a little bit and found someone (Martijn Pieters) HJL> mentioning about ZScheduler... How is that coming along? Not. What with a lot of Zope projects in my previous job, a big presentation, and then my switch to Digital Creations nothing much has happend on this. HJL> Is it OK just to launch another Python thread from an external method to HJL> take care of scheduled tasks? Or is a performance hit? HJL> How can I automatically launch the scheduler thread whenever the ZServer is HJL> up? You better set up a small script run by cron for this. This is currently much easier to manage. -- Best regards, Martijn Pieters mailto:mj@digicool.com