[Zope] How to ZCatalog DTML documents and/or HTML files automatically?

Bill Anderson bill@libc.org
Sat, 03 Jun 2000 12:02:23 -0600


jan@haul.de wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> this is probably a stupid question, But I'm damned if I can find
> a solution :-(
> 
> We have an internal site to store technical documents (in HTML
> or as DTML documents).
> We are using ZCatalog to provide an index for it.
> 
> Now, we want to have some mechanism that updates the index every
> night (including pages added during the day).

I would use cron, there is a howto on Zope.org for that.
> 
> On this list, I have read that the obvious solution, ZScheduler,
> "does not work". I take it "does not work reliably for all
> conceivable uses".
> Does this mean it is likely to work for what I have in mind? Are
> there any other ways to achieve it? I am running this on Unix
> (Solaris 7, in fact).


Warning: It renders zope useless on Linux. (Last I tried/heard) It _may_
do that on Solaris as well.