[Zope] Scheduled tasks in Zope?

[Jeff K. Hoffman]

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Hung Jung Lu wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> How does one set up scheduled tasks in Zope (like automatically backing up 
> files, automatically uploading newer versions of HTML files onto ZODB once a 
> day, etc.)? I searched a little bit and found someone (Martijn Pieters) 
> mentioning about ZScheduler...  How is that coming along?

I can't speak to ZScheduler, but for now I would think you could get by
with cron and Python/XML-RPC. A cron job could fire off a script which
manipulates the Zope ODB via XML-RPC at whatever interval(s) you desire.

--Jeff