----- Original Message ----- From: "PAULICKA,CHRISTOPHER (HP-PaloAlto,ex1)" <christopher_paulicka@hp.com> To: "Loren Stafford" <lstaffor@dynalogic.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:19 AM Subject: RE: Help with Xron

Loren,

Thanks for your help. It was the permissions issue. I changed the permissions for the scheduler to Manager, and now it works perfectly. (I'll probably make a new permissions category for Mailhost access.)

Thanks so much, you do good work!

Christopher Paulicka

-----Original Message----- From: Loren Stafford [mailto:lstaffor@dynalogic.com] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 6:27 PM To: Christopher Paulicka Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: Help with Xron

----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Paulicka" <christopher_paulicka@hp.com> To: "'Loren Stafford'" <lstaffor@dynalogic.com> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:19 PM Subject: RE: Help with Xron

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Loren,

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Look inside the Schedule catalog. It's index_html method lists the entries in the schedule. Is yours there?

What did you see when you looked inside the catalog?

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If not, go and edit the method. You don't have to change it, if it's all set correctly, just pretend you made a change and click the Update button (or whatever it's called). That action will reschedule the method. Then look in the Schedule again to be sure it's there.

I did that numerous times. It doesn't seem to make a difference. I can even rewrite the event, make a simpler event, all of that. When I trigger or view, it works. But the program never runs during the day, never automatically triggers like a good scheduler should.

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Once you got STUPID_LOG working, what shows in the log? If the Dispatcher tried to fire your method, there will be an entry in the log. Any errors will also be noted.

The STUPID_LOG points to a file which wasn't there. I had assumed it would create it if it didn't exist.

Since then, I put a blank log file by the name ("zopeapp.log") into the directory, just in case, but that hasn't been written to yet.

If STUPID_LOG_FILE is working, Zope will write its startup messages to it, independently of Xron. So, from what you said, I guess you don't have it working yet. You can't do much debugging without either STUPID_LOG_FILE or running in terminal debug mode. I'd suggest you get the log working first. If you can't get it working with a STUPID_LOG_FILE environment entry, try the Frozen Logger product.

What version of Zope? What OS?

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To send email, your Xron Scheduled Method needs permission to use Mailhost. An Xron Scheduled Method by default has the permissions of "Anonymous User". You may have to give the method a proxy role that has permissions to use Mailhost.

I know the mail works, because when I view or trigger my Xron method, it sends out the mailing list. The problem is not with the e-mail, but with the Scheduler never seeming to send the darn thing.

But when you view or trigger it you have Manager permissions. That's different from the Dispatcher environment which has the permissions of Anonymous User.

-- Loren