You can hook into Zope with Python, since it's just a big Python app. It might be best to write a shell script to set up the necessary environment variables (eg ZOPE_HOME and PYTHONPATH) so that you can get Zope to import/run properly, then call a Python script from the shell script. Something like this maybe: ----------------------- #! /bin/sh if [ "$ZOPE_HOME" == "" ] ; then export ZOPE_HOME=/usr/local/zope/a_zope_base fi if [ "$INSTANCE_HOME" == "" ] ; then export INSTANCE_HOME=~/zope/a_zope_instance fi export PYTHONPATH=$ZOPE_HOME/lib/python python $INSTANCE_HOME/Products/yourproduct/yourcronscript.py -------------------------- As far as hooking into Zope goes, it should be the same (or similar) as it is for unit testing. Import Zope, instantiate a Zope app with Zope.app(), and from there you can access Zope objects just like you would in a product. If you want to make requests to certain objects, you can do so with Testing.makerequest. Hope that's some help. HarryW On Wednesday 30 January 2002 9:06 am, Michel Vayssade wrote:
Hi,
is there a standard hook, to say to the zope server "execute the method Myproduct.mymethod" each day/hour/min ... (like a unix cron)
(okay, I could use "brute force" sending an http://...request directly from a cron shell script with telnet host 8080 ...)
thanks, Michel