[Zope] Re: Zope 2.7 and scheduling

[Chris McDonough]

Hi Josef,

The scheduler needs to be "poked" at intervals via a URL.  You can use
cron to do this or you can use the attached "clock.py" to do so (the
"cron" attached also gives you an idea of what URL needs to be poked).

HTH,

- C
 

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 05:09, Josef Meile wrote:
> Josef Meile wrote:
>  > --- In zope at yahoogroups.com, Dieter Maurer <dieter at h...> wrote:
>  >  > Gitte Wange wrote at 2004-8-8 17:25 +0200:
>  >  > > ...
>  >  > >All the stuff should be found at http://dev.legco.biz but that 
> website
>  >  > >is down :-((
>  >  > >Is the project discontinued or moved to some other website?
>  >  > >I really need some schedule stuff in Zope.
>  >  >
>  >  > We are using Events from Zope's CVS and a scheduler from
>  >  > Chris McDonnough (or similary spelled).
>  > I'm also interested in replacing Xron, so, I looked for the scheduler 
> you mentioned and found it on the cvs of zope.org; however, there isn't 
> any README.txt nor CHANGES.txt on it. Do you or anybody else knows if 
> there is a page of the project with this info? I didn't found it.
>  >
>  > I'm interested in, for example, on which products it depends -> I saw 
> Zope complains about the Product "Event", so, I installed it, but there 
> isn't a README with this info. I also saw that when you try to add an 
> instance of the Scheduler, you need something called "Event service", 
> which defaults to "portal_events". For the name, I guess it needs CMF 
> too, right? Can't be it used without it?
>  >
>  > I'm also interested on knowing what bugs have been corrected.
>  >
> Ok, I found that "Event Service" is available as soon as you install the 
> "Event" Product, so, I guess you don't need CMF after all. However, 
> after adding an instance called "portal_events" on the Root, then adding 
> a Scheduler, and finally scheduling a task two minutes on the future 
> with an interval of 3600 seconds (1 minute) and giving it a max age of 
> 36000 seconds (10 minutes), it isn't triggered, the "Next Run Time" 
> isn't updated, and there is no traceback on the zope log. Do I have to 
> do/install something else?
> 
> Thanks,
> Josef
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