[Zope] Scheduled tasks in Zope?

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

Joshua Brauer wrote:

> >You better set up a small script run by cron for this. This is
> >currently much easier to manage.
> 
> One method I've looked at for this is using cron to run Lynx through specific URL's  (i.e. a method to back things up or do whatever).

A cool idea somebody suggested was having cron run lynx once a method
agaisnt http://zope:8080/scheduler, where scheduler is a DTMLmethod or
pythonmethod that launches the appropiate scheduled tasks if they match the
current time.  So you only have one cron job running and this method deals
with everything else.

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Itamar S.T.  itamars@ibm.net