People, people!
I already have a cron job that parses the kernel version according to what is present in http://www.linuxhq.com/, and generates an HTML file. That is not the issue. The issue is including the file in Zope, which I could not figure out how to do even though I tried. It is possible that what I tried was only implemented in recent versions of Zope or that I misunderstood how to do it there. In any case, the Zope we are using is very old, and also the applications installed on it are not very up-to-date. Its upgrade did not went very well, because Squishdot required a lot of manual steps to be upgraded, and because I could not find some of the applications Chen originally installed. The worst part is that Zope does not use SQL or XML or anything sensible and standard to store its data. And nobody seems to understand Zope well enough to help us. (well maybe Moshe Zadka does, but he is not very active recently). Maybe we should, archive our old articles, and upgrade both the distribution and replace the web-log system. I'm a little tired of this RPM bootstrap and out-of-date packages and don't see how bad a kernel based on kernel 2.4.x can be. And I'm getting a little tired of Zope, too. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Sun, 12 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, 12 May 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 08:56:37PM +0300, Chen Shapira wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 1:33 PM > > > > To: Chen Shapira > > > > Cc: 'Shlomi Fish'; 'iglu-web' > > > > Subject: Re: Our "Latest Kernel" Box > > > > > > > > > > > Fichs. Why do it on the client side, when it can be done on the server > > > > side? All it requires a one line cgi script to finger kernel.organd > > > > output the result. THe reason I did not implement it yet is that doing > > > > it within zope is not trivial, and I did not have the time to delve > > > > into it. > > > > > > Running the script is simple: > > > os.system("/bin/finger kernel.org") in an external method should do the > > > trick. > > > > import os > > versions = os.popen("finger @kernel.org") > > make that: > > "cat whatever_file" > > with a cron job does 'finger @kernel.org' hourly > > That way the loading of our pages won't be delayed when the connection to > kernel.org becomes problematic. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let's suppose you have a table with 2^n cups..." "Wait a second - is n a natural number?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
