Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Erik Enge
[Karl Anderson] | In order to link/incorporate a GPL'd module, you have to be able to | distribute the entire work under the GPL. : | Therefore, assuming RMS is correct, GPL'd components can't be | distributed as part of a Zope solution. : | Is this correct? If it is, the GPL isn't very approp

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
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[Zope] ignore

2000-09-12 Thread Matthew Burleigh
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Re: [Zope] ZODB export to other DB/format?

2000-09-12 Thread Bill Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > I made an effort to look through the FAQs on zope.org and couldn't find a > definitive answer, though the ZODB faq hinted that my fears are warranted. > > If I deploy a site and store content in the ZODB, what are my options in terms > of automatically getting

[Zope] checking Zope's version number

2000-09-12 Thread Hung Jung Lu
Is there a way of detecting Zope's version number? (I know there is an environment variable REQUEST.environ['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], but is there a better/standard way of accessing Zope's version number?) (I seem to have problem using the context.registerHelp() in a product's __init__ method under

[Zope] ignore

2000-09-12 Thread Matthew Burleigh
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[Zope] Backslash as line continuation in C (Unix)

2000-09-12 Thread Hung Jung Lu
Hi, This is a Unix C question. But since I am doing something that ultimately results in a Zope product, I might as well ask the question here. :) I am trying to build a third-party utility in Linux. I ran into troubles in the compilation process because of the usage of backslash \ as line co

[Zope] ignore

2000-09-12 Thread Matthew Burleigh
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[Zope] ZODB export to other DB/format?

2000-09-12 Thread j
Hi, I made an effort to look through the FAQs on zope.org and couldn't find a definitive answer, though the ZODB faq hinted that my fears are warranted. If I deploy a site and store content in the ZODB, what are my options in terms of automatically getting it out of there and into another DB or f

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Terry Kerr
Hi, I think the direction of this discussion has been lost. The main concern is with the distribution of GPL'd zope products as a part of other products, commercial, proprietary, freeware, or not. In this case, does the GPL enforce that the product as a whole must be distributed under the GPL?

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Kapil Thangavelu
Karl Anderson wrote: > > Correct me if I'm wrong (and don't bother with the discussion on the > merits or non- of the GPL, I don't care in this context), but: > > In order to link/incorporate a GPL'd module, you have to be able to > distribute the entire work under the GPL. > > RMS says that th

Re: [Zope] are there any known memory leaks in Zope 2.2.1?

2000-09-12 Thread Kapil Thangavelu
Skip Montanaro wrote: > > I'm experiencing bad memory leaks in my ZServer-based system. I recently > upgraded from 2.0.0 to 2.2.1. I didn't have leakage using 2.0.0 - certainly > nothing like I'm seeing it now. When I call the same method (same > parameters as well) over and over, I pretty sig

[Zope] Ownership and security

2000-09-12 Thread Andy McKay
How do I remove ownership from a product, ie: make it unowned? I have some dtml that works quite happily on unowned objects, but at soon as they become owned I get into a whole whack of problems with getUserById. Of course I would really love to have ownership work, but I know its hell trying to

Re: [Zope] Getting the count from dtml-in

2000-09-12 Thread Jonothan Farr
> How do I get the count in a sequence? --jfarr ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce ht

[Zope] ZODB editing options via FTP/webdav, and 2 design questions

2000-09-12 Thread Chris Beaumont
Hello all, I'm curious about what the current state-of-the-art is for using techniques other than (clumsy) browser editing to edit Zope objects in the ODB, and FTP and webdav -capable products and which ones they like the most.. How is webdav different than FTP? How would one use it? I've used

Re: [Zope] call a dtml doc in subfolder?

2000-09-12 Thread Curtis Maloney
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I want to call a dtml doc with where docname > is in a subfolder. What is the syntax to do this? > This is where we find out why you don't put a . in an object name. (o8 Simple enough? (o8 > --Sean > Have a better one, Curtis.

[Zope] Date format problems

2000-09-12 Thread Stuart Foster
I am using the following on an NT installation with no problems However when I use it on a Linux install it get Error Type: ValueError Error Value: unsupported format character 'm' (0x6d) What am I missing here. ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Karl Anderson
Correct me if I'm wrong (and don't bother with the discussion on the merits or non- of the GPL, I don't care in this context), but: In order to link/incorporate a GPL'd module, you have to be able to distribute the entire work under the GPL. RMS says that the ZPL isn't compatible with the GPL;

[Zope] zope stuf product

2000-09-12 Thread technology
http://www.zope.org/Members/greulen/zopestud This is too cool. Way alpha and it is what I have been looking for. After I installed it I opened the options drop menu and selected settings. I then clicked the 'editor' tab and selected the 'Editor executable' radio button. I browsed to dreamwaver

[Zope] Never mind dtml-in

2000-09-12 Thread Stuart Foster
Oops how about count-rec_id.. Sorry for the previous message. Stuart ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinf

[Zope] Getting the count from dtml-in

2000-09-12 Thread Stuart Foster
How do I get the count in a sequence? rec_id is a field from a table that is being used in the . However the result isn't correct. TIA Stuart ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts o

RE: [Zope] zope login window: how to change the 'Zope' realm/resource??

2000-09-12 Thread Steve Drees
> --- > Use Z_REALM env. var to set your HTTP > mcdonc brings us this tip: > > Set the environment variable "Z_REALM" to change the HTTP "authentication > realm" in which your Zope server > participates. > Additional details: > F

[Zope] ignore

2000-09-12 Thread Matthew Burleigh
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Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Hannu Krosing
Magnus Alvestad wrote: > > [Danny William Adair] > > | Now Nils and Oleg are giving me the creeps. > > There are several issues here. > > First, it is not obvious that including one GPL'ed product in a zope > site and then distributing that site obliges you to distribute any > further source c

Re: [Zope] ZOPE 2.2.1 Problem

2000-09-12 Thread Shane Hathaway
Steve Williams wrote: > > I installed ZOPE 2.2.1 yesterday under Windows 98 to fix a ZSQL > authorization problem. > > After rebooting my machine this morning, when I run ZOPE's start.bat, > the DOS command screen comes up, flashes some messages quickly and then > disappears, so ZOPE won't start

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "TC" == Tim Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TC> Danny William Adair wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> Now Nils and Oleg are giving me the creeps. Is it not possible >> to take a few GPLed Zope products, add your own effort of >> configuring, integrating, building, (re-)des

Re: [Zope] problem logging in to /manage resource

2000-09-12 Thread Tony McDonald
> Hello, > >I've been tryhing hard for the last two weeks to use >zope but I can't seem to get it to go past the /manage >resource. Ouch! - you'll like it once you get started. I'm running zserver, I tried the default >password, changing it with zpasswd, removing domain >restrictions, ev

Re: [Zope] call a dtml doc in subfolder?

2000-09-12 Thread Tim Cook
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > I want to call a dtml doc with where docname > is in a subfolder. What is the syntax to do this? > HTH, -- Tim Cook -- Cook Information Systems | Office: (901) 884-4126 8am-5pm CDT * Specializing in Open Source Business Systems * FreePM Project Coordin

[Zope] ZSQL

2000-09-12 Thread Tom Deprez
Hi, I use an ZSQLMethod to query a database. In the result report I try to insert the results of another ZSQLMethod per each record of the first result report. The problem is that the first record shows the correct result of the second result, but that the following records all show the second re

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Dario Lopez-Kästen
- Original Message - From: "Nils Kassube" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Magnus Alvestad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill > Magnus Alvestad wrote: > > > Third, you are only obligated to distribu

[Zope] Importing multiple files into Zope

2000-09-12 Thread Robert_J_Roberts
I would like to be able to import multiple existing HTML files into Zope and make them searchable. For example: I would like to be able to point a Zope Method at my c:\python\doc subdirectory and import not only the index.html file, but also import the subdirectories under ...\doc\ and all of t

Re: [Zope] zope login window: how to change the 'Zope' realm/resource??

2000-09-12 Thread Danny William Adair
Hi Gilles! Doesn't the "realm tip" apply anymore? --- Use Z_REALM env. var to set your HTTP mcdonc brings us this tip: Set the environment variable "Z_REALM" to change the HTTP "authentication realm" in which your Zope server p

[Zope] problem logging in to /manage resource

2000-09-12 Thread Rudd-O
Hello, I've been tryhing hard for the last two weeks to use zope but I can't seem to get it to go past the /manage resource. I'm running zserver, I tried the default password, changing it with zpasswd, removing domain restrictions, everything, but it still gives me authentication failed.

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Magnus Alvestad
Just to state my position, I have worked as a professional commercial software developer since 1994. I think the GPL is appropriate for work I do outside customer contracts. [Nils Kassube] | The problem is not that a client who paid for custom development | will get the source. It's the fact th

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Jim Hebert
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Nils Kassube wrote: > The problem is not that a client who paid for custom development > will get the source. It's the fact that you have to release the > source code of an enhanced GPL'ed component (and possibly stuff > built with it) for everyone else, too. *gasp* Your cl

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Lalo Martins
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 06:02:15PM +0200, Nils Kassube wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oleg Broytmann) wrote: > > >No, you are not forced to publish anything. GPL "virus" applied only if > > you want to *distribute* combined (your code + my GPL'd code). > > Like in "distributing to clients"? So

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Bill Anderson
Nils Kassube wrote: > > Oleg Broytmann wrote: > > > LICENSE > >GPL > > I've seen several Zope products using the GPL. In my not so > humble opinion, this could develop into a serious problem > for Zope deployment. I'm not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV), > but the use of GPL'ed source co

[Zope] Defining a session idle timeout value using FSSession...

2000-09-12 Thread Aaron Bostick
Would anyone on the list have a solution to implementing idle timeouts using FSSession? I know you can cron up a simple job to delete the FSSession hierarchy based on date and time, but how do you know which sessions are still being used if you want to delete stuff say every 10 minutes or so?

[Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison

2000-09-12 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Richard Moon says: >Zope offers the potential to be the perfect development environment with >tons of really good solutions off the shelf - these can be customised if >they have to, we can drop down to Python if we really need to. Perfect. > >Unfortunately its been difficult to get discussions

Re: [Zope] 'showREQUEST' or 'show_REQUEST' ?

2000-09-12 Thread Dieter Maurer
Steve Alexander writes: > I get an error when I try to add a DTML Method with REQUEST anywhere in > the id. > > Actually, the method gets added, but I cannot edit it. > > I haven't found out why yet. The bad code is in "ZPublisher.BaseRequest.traverse": # Make sure that REQUEST

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Tim Cook
Danny William Adair wrote: > > Hi all! > > Now Nils and Oleg are giving me the creeps. > Is it not possible to take a few GPLed Zope products, add your own effort of > configuring, integrating, building, (re-)designing, and even documenting the > outcome of your efforts and - ___sell___ this? Ma

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Nils Kassube
Magnus Alvestad wrote: > Third, you are only obligated to distribute source to parties you have > already distributed the binary version to. I can't really see a > customer buying a zope site from you and not expecting 'source' > anyway. The problem is not that a client who paid for custom deve

RE: [Zope] How to Pass values to a DTML method ??

2000-09-12 Thread Dieter Maurer
Stuart Foster writes: > Dieter Maurer wrote: > > You should include two positional parameters as well: > > > > > This is the way I had to do it what's up with the two extra params? DTML objects use the DocumentTemplate's (--> DocumentTemplate.DT_String) __call__ function for rendering.

Re: [Zope] dtml-in theentiresite

2000-09-12 Thread Dieter Maurer
peter be writes: > In the root > A DTML Method > > Some objects (mostly DTML Documents) have a property (boolean) that tells > whether this is a helppage or not. > What I want to do is to loop though eash and every object in the entire site > (not very big) and check if the object

[Zope] are there any known memory leaks in Zope 2.2.1?

2000-09-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
I'm experiencing bad memory leaks in my ZServer-based system. I recently upgraded from 2.0.0 to 2.2.1. I didn't have leakage using 2.0.0 - certainly nothing like I'm seeing it now. When I call the same method (same parameters as well) over and over, I pretty significant leakage via isolate met

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Magnus Alvestad
[Danny William Adair] | Now Nils and Oleg are giving me the creeps. There are several issues here. First, it is not obvious that including one GPL'ed product in a zope site and then distributing that site obliges you to distribute any further source code. Only if you (embrace and) extend that

Re: [Zope] My Z Class

2000-09-12 Thread Andy McKay
A Class is a template for an object, you create it once and any changes affect every object. An object is an instance of a class, it contains data, properties etc. Changing that just changes the object and it is common to change the information in an object. Karl I think you are trying to change

[Zope] ZServer going down ??

2000-09-12 Thread Marc Gehling
Hello, my zserver is often going down. this is my nohup.out-log on linux red hat. Any Idea ? 2000-09-12T15:27:17 ERROR(200) ZServer uncaptured python exception, closing chan nel (socket.error:(9, 'Bad file descriptor') [/usr/local/dc/Zope-2.1.4-linux2-x 86/ZServer/medusa/asynchat.py|initia

Re: [Zope] Zope doesn't start...

2000-09-12 Thread César A. K. Grossmann
Martijn Pieters wrote: > > Remove ComputedAttribute.py and things should be better. In the source > distribution it is located in lib/Components/ExtensionClass, which isn't > included in the Linux binary distribution. I removed the file ComputedAttribute.pyc and everything works well. It was in

Re: [Zope] Xron TypeError revisited

2000-09-12 Thread Loren Stafford
From: "Dwayne Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, > > I posted earlier about Xron 0.0.9 event scheduling woes. One of my stabs > in the dark seems to work. > I removed the 'this()' parameter entirely and > now am able to schedule events via DTML. I'm glad you figured out how to proceed. I

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Nils Kassube
Danny William Adair wrote: > Is it not possible to take a few GPLed Zope products, add your own effort of > configuring, integrating, building, (re-)designing, and even documenting the > outcome of your efforts and - ___sell___ this? Maybe not only to _one_ > customer, but burn a CD and sell it t

[Zope] call a dtml doc in subfolder?

2000-09-12 Thread sean
Hi, I want to call a dtml doc with where docname is in a subfolder. What is the syntax to do this? --Sean ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists -

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Oleg Broytmann
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Danny William Adair wrote: > Now Nils and Oleg are giving me the creeps. > Is it not possible to take a few GPLed Zope products, add your own effort of > configuring, integrating, building, (re-)designing, and even documenting the > outcome of your efforts and - ___sell___ thi

[Zope] Making some DTML Documents catalog aware

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Couder
Hi everybody, I have a Zope site with many DTML document and I would like to make them catalog aware because I want the web site users to be able to search the site. The web site users are already able to modify the site themselves and this functionality must be kept. I use the debian zope packag

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Danny William Adair
Hi all! Now Nils and Oleg are giving me the creeps. Is it not possible to take a few GPLed Zope products, add your own effort of configuring, integrating, building, (re-)designing, and even documenting the outcome of your efforts and - ___sell___ this? Maybe not only to _one_ customer, but burn a

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Oleg Broytmann
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Nils Kassube wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oleg Broytmann) wrote: > > >No, you are not forced to publish anything. GPL "virus" applied only if > > you want to *distribute* combined (your code + my GPL'd code). > > Like in "distributing to clients"? So that I have to publis

Re: [Zope] Re: Session support (was: Object serialization between different pages)

2000-09-12 Thread Chris McDonough
Hi Tom, > I just read your proposal and I think it would be nice to have such a > standard product in Zope. Certianly since lot's of these 'shopping carts' > websites are popping up on the internet. > I've however one question, which is more generally to e-commerce products > and which perhaps gi

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Nils Kassube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oleg Broytmann) wrote: >No, you are not forced to publish anything. GPL "virus" applied only if > you want to *distribute* combined (your code + my GPL'd code). Like in "distributing to clients"? So that I have to publish source code to the whole world (not only clients) t

Re: [Zope] How to Pass values to a DTML method ??

2000-09-12 Thread Evan Simpson
From: Stuart Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The first example is what I was doing. But felt it was hard to follow. > However I would be interested in why it would be considered more robust. I probably misused the word; what I meant was that the form is less likely to have errors like forgetting th

Re: [Zope] Zope doesn't start...

2000-09-12 Thread Martijn Pieters
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:24:18AM -0300, César A. K. Grossmann wrote: > Hi > > I'm having some strange problems with the RPM version of Zope 2.2.1: it > starts, but dies without any message in /var/log/messages. > > I try to run it by hand, and get these messages: > > [root@server zope]# ./zse

Re: [Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison

2000-09-12 Thread Richard Moon
I've enjoyed the contributions on this thread. Some time back I mentioned that what hooked me on Zope was the Relational Database access "out of the box". I liked the way Zope generated a simple database query form and result - so I agree strongly that Zope could hook more people if it did eve

Re: [Zope] Important Security Concerns

2000-09-12 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:31:52AM -0400, Coleman, Bryan wrote: > That would cause another whole set of problems, unless apache is inherity > more secure than Medusa. I was really wondering what the risks are > associated with those two options. I think Zope behind apache is more secure than zope

RE: [Zope] How to Pass values to a DTML method ??

2000-09-12 Thread Stuart Foster
The first example is what I was doing. But felt it was hard to follow. However I would be interested in why it would be considered more robust. -Original Message- From: Evan Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:15 PM To: Stuart Foster; Dieter Maurer Cc: Zo

[Zope] ZSQL and database locking

2000-09-12 Thread Arjan de Knegt
Dear all, I'm a happy Zope user (in a private environment), experienced in client-server application development but still quite green regarding to Zope. I'm trying to figure out how I can use database locking using ZSQL and MySQL. What is the case? I would like to implement a multi-user update f

RE: [Zope] Important Security Concerns

2000-09-12 Thread M. Adam Kendall
Since I do this type of thing for a living, I can tell you the best answer is Option B. If your company is that security paranoid, a DMZ is always a better idea than poking holes in end-to-end connections in the firewall. On 12-Sep-2000 Coleman, Bryan wrote: > I almost have my company convinced

Re: [Zope] How to Pass values to a DTML method ??

2000-09-12 Thread Daniel Rusch
They pass in the current name space, the context if you will. Someone posted a reply that had a link to the faq that attempts to explains this. DR Stuart Foster wrote: > > This is the way I had to do it what's up with the two extra params? > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Zope] Zope doesn't start...

2000-09-12 Thread César A. K. Grossmann
Hi I'm having some strange problems with the RPM version of Zope 2.2.1: it starts, but dies without any message in /var/log/messages. I try to run it by hand, and get these messages: [root@server zope]# ./zserver.sh [root@server zope]# Traceback (innermost last): File "z2.py", line 554, in ?

[Zope] Re: Session support (was: Object serialization between different pages)

2000-09-12 Thread Chris McDonough
Note that there is also a proposal in progress to put session-tracking in the Zope core. See http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/CoreSessionTracking and make comments if you see fit. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Oleg Broytmann
Hi! On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Nils Kassube wrote: > Oleg Broytmann wrote: > > > LICENSE > >GPL > > I've seen several Zope products using the GPL. In my not so > humble opinion, this could develop into a serious problem > for Zope deployment. I'm not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV), > but the

Re: [Zope] TEXT FILE Operation

2000-09-12 Thread Phil Harris
Marcello, I'd say the simplest way is to create an external method, something like (untested): def addToTextFile(self, thingToAdd = None): if thingToAdd: f=open('thefile','w') f.write(thingToAdd+'\n') f.close() or similar for changing/updating etc. If you are short

Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Chris Withers
Nils Kassube wrote: > I hope Zope product developers think twice about using the GPL. > The GPL license is not about sharing like e.g. the BSD license, > it's about enforcing the political agenda of people who think > that commercial ("proprietary") software w/o source code is evil. This is very

[Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

2000-09-12 Thread Nils Kassube
Oleg Broytmann wrote: > LICENSE >GPL I've seen several Zope products using the GPL. In my not so humble opinion, this could develop into a serious problem for Zope deployment. I'm not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV), but the use of GPL'ed source code like e.g. Renderable ZClass in your we

[Zope] Object serialization between different pages

2000-09-12 Thread Pierre-Julien Grizel
Hi, Is it possible to serialize an object to share it across several pages ? This would allow one to pass the serialized object via the URL, and to retreive it in the form that would process the request. I know there is the pickle function in python, but is there a more Zopish way to do this ?

Re: [Zope] [zwiki] What is the 'Wiki-Safetybelt'?

2000-09-12 Thread Evan Simpson
From: "Jean Jordaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wiki-Safetybelt: 968246577.617 > > What is is, and do I need to keep it if I want to ftp them > back in? It's a weak protection for when two people grab a copy of a wiki page, edit it, then post their conflicting changed pages. When the second person

[Zope] ZOPE 2.2.1 Problem

2000-09-12 Thread Steve Williams
I installed ZOPE 2.2.1 yesterday under Windows 98 to fix a ZSQL authorization problem. After rebooting my machine this morning, when I run ZOPE's start.bat, the DOS command screen comes up, flashes some messages quickly and then disappears, so ZOPE won't start. Running Z2.py in Python gives me t

RE: [Zope] Important Security Concerns

2000-09-12 Thread Tom Deprez
I know not much about security because I don't have to worry about it, but out of your talk, it seems that your company finds apache secure. Then why don't you just run Zope behind Apache with a FASTCGI, or something else? Sorry if I'm completely missing the point of your problem. Regards, Tom.

Re: [Zope] Object serialization between different pages

2000-09-12 Thread Phil Harris
You could always use one of the session management products on the Zope site. My particular favourite is SQLSession, but others exist which do a similar job. hth Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Pierre-Julien Grizel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: T

Re: [Zope] dtml-in theentiresite

2000-09-12 Thread Rik Hoekstra
> Any other good solutions are welcomed! There are several 'Sitemap' solutions that do this more or less, but... Any reason you can't use a catalog for this and catalog on the property? This is much faster and much more flexible Rik ___ Zope maillis

RE: [Zope] Important Security Concerns

2000-09-12 Thread Coleman, Bryan
That would cause another whole set of problems, unless apache is inherity more secure than Medusa. I was really wondering what the risks are associated with those two options. - Bryan Patrick Coleman Questcon Technologies (336)273-2428 ext-416 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message-

Re: [Zope] Important Security Concerns

2000-09-12 Thread Phil Harris
Another option might be to proxy the Zope server through Apache on port 80. - Original Message - From: "Coleman, Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 12:43 PM Subject: [Zope] Important Security Concerns > I almost have my company convince

Re: [Zope] Object serialization between different pages

2000-09-12 Thread Oleg Broytmann
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Pierre-Julien Grizel wrote: > Is it possible to serialize an object to share it across several pages ? > This would allow one to pass the serialized object via the URL, and to > retreive it in the form that would process the request. Oh, no! Think if I hack the page you se

[Zope] Important Security Concerns

2000-09-12 Thread Coleman, Bryan
I almost have my company convinced that Zope is the technology to use for our Intranet/Extranet. However they are very concerned with security. I have proposed two security schemes that I would like zope community feed back on for potential holes. Option A: Poke a hole through our firewall on the

[Zope] [zwiki] What is the 'Wiki-Safetybelt'?

2000-09-12 Thread Jean Jordaan
Hi all If I ftp a bunch of zwikipages out of the ZODB, each one has this:: Wiki-Safetybelt: 968246577.617 What is is, and do I need to keep it if I want to ftp them back in? The thing is, I 'diff'ed and 'patch'ed two wikis against each other, and I'm not interested in changes that involve o

Re: [Zope] TEXT FILE Operation

2000-09-12 Thread Rik Hoekstra
> infact this is the problem, right now i'm not able to program in python > but only on using zope. Hm, you'd be surprised how easy the Python bit is. THere is excellent documentation at the Python site (http://www.python.org) > I used the FSSession product before and i think that should be a Si

Re: [Zope] TEXT FILE Operation

2000-09-12 Thread Marcello Lupo
Thank you, infact this is the problem, right now i'm not able to program in python but only on using zope. I used the FSSession product before and i think that should be a Similar product to make changes on files. thank you for the help. Marcello Rik Hoekstra wrote: > > > anyone know how to le

Re: [Zope] TEXT FILE Operation

2000-09-12 Thread Rik Hoekstra
> anyone know how to let Zope interact with text files on the system on it > is running. I take it you mean files external to the ZODB database > Like making changes to files, search and replare some text or insert or > delete text and save the file again? > I'm pretty new and i don't know if it

[Zope] TEXT FILE Operation

2000-09-12 Thread Marcello Lupo
Hi to all, anyone know how to let Zope interact with text files on the system on it is running. Like making changes to files, search and replare some text or insert or delete text and save the file again? I'm pretty new and i don't know if it is possible for Zope. Thank You in advice. Marcello __

Re: [Zope] My Z Class

2000-09-12 Thread Rik Hoekstra
Karl Munroe wrote: > > I have constructed a z class which contians other products. Is it possible > for me to have access and edit the properties of the objects contained in > the z class. > For example. MYZClass contains an image object...how do I change the and > edit the photo contained in t

[Zope] zope login window: how to change the 'Zope' realm/resource??

2000-09-12 Thread Gilles Lavaux
Hello, Question about Zope 2.2.1: - I have a 'administration' folder which contains administration methods and is restricted to the 'project_admin' role. - The user 'toto' has the role 'project_admin'. When I access this folder, the login window prompt for a 'Zope' resource (IE4, Opera4..).

Re: [Zope] dtml-in theentiresite

2000-09-12 Thread Chris Withers
peter be wrote: > Some objects (mostly DTML Documents) have a property (boolean) that tells > whether this is a helppage or not. > What I want to do is to loop though eash and every object in the entire site > (not very big) and check if the object has this property. Does your site have any folde

Re: [Zope] Oedipus / Zope / python / product / XML ++

2000-09-12 Thread Oleg Broytmann
Hi! I write and maintain a project "Bookamrks Database and Internet robot" (detailed announce after quotations). It is not exactly what you want, but I have plans to add Oedipus to my list of databases. Probably there are fields we may cooperate. I am very short on time these days :( On Mo

Re: [Zope] Manager Authentication Failure: How to debug?

2000-09-12 Thread Kimmo Kansanen
Sie (Martijn Pieters,[EMAIL PROTECTED]) sannoit: > > There are generally two things that could have gone wrong here: > > - You didn't specify the Manager Role for the User. The list of Roles on > the User manage page is _not_ the assigned list, but the possible list > of Roles. Select the Ma

Re: [Zope] How to Pass values to a DTML method ??

2000-09-12 Thread Evan Simpson
> Dieter Maurer > You should include two positional parameters as well: > > I've recently had explained to me a way that is more robust, and possibly less confusing, than this idiotic idiom. I think it may start appearing in docs and training. ...or even better... &dtml.-some_method; ...wh