[Zope] xron on Solaris

[Shilpa Shenvi]

Hi, 

I tried your solution - I created a script that would call the url.
When I run the script from the command line, it works.  When I run
The script from the cron, I get the following error:

Your "cron" job on cobweb2
autDel.py 

produced the following output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "autDel.py", line 3, in ?
    import urllib, sys
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/urllib.py", line 26, in ?
    import socket
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/socket.py", line 41, in ?
    from _socket import *
ImportError: ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/python: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open
failed: No such file or directory

Have you seen this before?  How did you handle it?

Thank you,

Shilpa

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Renfro [mailto:renfro@tntech.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:13 AM
To: Shilpa Shenvi
Cc: zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] xron on Solaris

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 08:24:43AM -0400, Shilpa Shenvi wrote:

> When I run lynx interactively, there are certain prompts I have to
> answer - so I created an expect script to do this.

> Do you know of alternatives that will not require bringing up a
> browser?

Python and urllib, or Perl and LWP. Assuming the prompts you answer in
lynx are just form entries, it's simple. Even my feeble Python skills
managed to put together a script that filled out all the entries on
Verizon's website in order to send my phone a text message:

  #!/usr/bin/python
  import urllib, sys

  params = urllib.urlencode({'min': '8005551212',
                             'showDisclaimer': 'n',
                             'Send.x': 'Yes',
                             'Subject': '',
                             'senderName': 'Me',
                             'message': sys.argv[1]})

  f=urllib.urlopen("http://www.msg.myvzw.com/results.jsp",params)

All the above parameters were just scraped out of the HTML source of
the form.

-- 
Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu