| Does't the *already included* zeoup.py do exactly what you are trying | to do? See the bin directory of your zope home.
Unfortunately no. It uses ClientStorage, which goes through the 1000's of lines of the connection dance using connect threads and large timeouts. Effectively, ClientStorage will retry a connection 'forever'. I just want to see if the port is listening and it smells like ZEO with the minimal reasonable timeout. -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems, LLC. _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev