Re: [Zope] Non-blocking MailHost

2000-09-04 Thread Richard Taylor
I think what people have in mind (correct me if I am wrong) is something that will accept messages (for posting to the mailhost at some time in the future) and then immediately return. I guess it would spawn another process/thread to do the posting asynchronously. The problem, as I see it is h

[Zope] Re: Zope.org feedback

2000-07-07 Thread Richard Taylor
cvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > Thanks for your help, but I've got some problems with etcUserFolder > because I don't know where I should put my password file. I'd also like > to know how to use the variable that contains the role of the user, in > a Python script. I

Re: [Zope] Problem with database packing (major data loss)

2000-07-07 Thread Richard Taylor
Brian Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Zope 2.1.6 if you you pack the database with '0' in the days box > > and then pack it again with '1' in the days box bad things happen. In > > our case the first pack resulted in a Data.fs of 17MBytes (not bad > > from a started point of nearly 2GByt

[Zope] Problem with database packing (major data loss)

2000-07-07 Thread Richard Taylor
We have discovered a rather nasty problem. On Zope 2.1.6 if you you pack the database with '0' in the days box and then pack it again with '1' in the days box bad things happen. In our case the first pack resulted in a Data.fs of 17MBytes (not bad from a started point of nearly 2GBytes) the se

Re: [Zope] Newbe question concerning using python classes and external methods

2000-07-06 Thread Richard Taylor
"Gaspard, Bradley S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All, > > I am a new Zope user and I guess I'm missing something fundemental that I > haven't been able to glean from the documentation and various "How-to's". > As a learning tool I am trying to implement one of Brian Lloyd's examples I > found

Re: [Zope] CorruptTransactionError (Bad news for production site!)

2000-07-06 Thread Richard Taylor
Jim Thank you for your prompt response. This is what I love about using Open Source Software, the responses come from peole who really know what they are talking about. Further responses in-line. Jim Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Taylor wrote: > > > >

[Zope] CorruptTransactionError (Bad news for production site!)

2000-07-05 Thread Richard Taylor
Today I had to role back two days of transactions from my production site because when I packed the database I was informed of a CorruptTransactionError. We are using Zope for an internal knowledge management application where anyone in the organization can add objects. So I have no way of kno

[Zope] Problems with Postgres 7.0

2000-06-02 Thread Richard Taylor
I am having problems with the new release of Postgres (7.0). I have an application that has been connecting to a Postgres 6.5 database through ZPyGres without any problems. When I upgraded to 7.0 the query hangs the database connection and zope. Zope will not respond to any requests until I ma