[Zope-Coders] Re: runzope - but no stopzope in Zope 2.7?

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:23:03AM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote:
> It wouldn't be able to open the filestorage and pack it directly unless
> ZEO was used; it would need to go through a server to do it... this
> could be a bit tricky because zopectl itself doesn't really know much
> about the configuration (e.g. what ports Zope is actually listening on,
> what the admin username and password are, etc).  I suppose zopectl could
> import ZConfig and read the config itself, though.  This is a bit
> involved.

You can pack from zopectl debug, regardless of the storage... 
so why not just do the equivalent?
something like:

days = 7  # we'll want to get this from sys.argv
cp = app.Control_Panel
cp.manage_pack(days=days)


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