[Zope] Trying to understand the Scheduler

[Ross J. Reedstrom]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> Do not try to understand the scheduler.  It's not really implemented
> nor is it useful for anything at this time.
> 
> Jim
> 

Pedro - 
If you need to do periodic tasks, the wisdom of the list says go with a
cron job script attaching to your Zopesite via the ZClient interfaces
(caveat: I know nothing about this - just repeating what I've read here)
Anyone know were to look for info on this elusive ZClient stuff?

To quote Paul Everitt <Paul@digicool.com>:

>As mentioned later, Zope has a simple RPC mechanism -- it's called HTTP!
>
>ZClient is a package in Zope that automates this.  It makes it
>convenient to connect to Zope and communicate with it from a scripting,
>non-interactive environment.

Ross
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Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu> 
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University, 6100 S. Main St.,  Houston, TX 77005