[Zope] Re: Unrestricted threads

[Tres Seaver]

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Eric Bréhault wrote:
> yes indeed you can easily extract the mechanism to create a specific
> security manager and create a request to call the method you want
> using this security manager
> 
> the problem with ZEO is not related to this aspect so it should work fine
> 
> eric
> 
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Thierry Florac <thierry.florac at onf.fr> wrote:
>> Le mardi 22 juillet 2008 à 19:43 +0200, Eric Bréhault a écrit :
>>> Hello Thierry,
>>>
>>> To schedule cron-like tasks on Zope, I use ZpCron:
>>> http://www.zope.org/Members/janik/ZpCron
>>>
>>> It works pretty fine (well, as far as you do not use ZEO) and it
>>> allows to define the user you want to use to run such or such task,
>>> and the Zope security mechanisms are applied just like if the user had
>>> run the task himself.

Note that you can write scripts designed to use the ZODB, but be run
from a crontab.  E.g.:

  $ cat Products/foo/scripts/send_report.py
  mailnost = app.site.MailHost
  catalog = app.site.portal_catalog()
  ....

  $ crontab -l
  55 0 * * *  /home/tseaver/instance/bin/zopectl run \ #(no linebreak!)
              /home/tseaver/instance/Products/foo/scripts/send_report.py

You can *only* use this approach if you use ZEO, of course.


Tres.
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