If you have access to a machine anywhere on the net that is running Linux or another Unix variant, here's an admittedly low-tech but very useful solution to this problem. (for some reason, my Zope wouldnt boot with Xron, so I was forced to look elsewhere and I found this..) I've found that either lynx or wget running on a cron job works *very* well for doing things like this.. (scheduling events in a Zope somewhere, really anywhere where the cron-triggered lynx can send it a request..the Zope can even be running on NT.. *laugh*) Its also a great way to grab (to mirror) pages created on a Zope server for use on other machines running conventional Apache, etc. Use 'lynx source' running from cron on the other machine to save the file to disk at regular intervals..This can also be a great way to deal with situations in which certain pages get very high traffic that it might make sense to divert away from Zope.. The only gotcha for newbies is that when running it from cron, you have to make sure that lynx has a "term" variable set.. (vt220 always works well for me) You can do this by adding this to your shell script at the beginning of the command line that invokes lynx.. There's a how-to about this somewhere if you look around. This combination is rock solid reliable. Chris
1) Is there a cron-like tool in Zope? Or a way to have cron run a process in Zope?