>(okay, I could use "brute force" sending an http://...request > directly from a cron shell script with telnet host 8080 ...) I use slightly easier form of brute force to get a backup of my app using cron... wget -O ~me/app.zexp "http://zopehost:8080/app/manage_exportObject?download:int=1" I imagine wget could be used to do other things too.... :-) Adam