hello, i am the maintainer of zope. until now i wasn't able to look into the problem because i didn't have osx 10.2. i just bought it today. i will install it and look into the problem as soon as possible...
cheers, kilian On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 01:12:17AM +0900, Tom Harris wrote: > User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 > From: Tom Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Fink-users] zopectl, zope-z2, etc. > Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 01:12:17 +0900 > > Running 10.2.1 with fink zope 2.5.1-2 > > Continued struggles with the startup scripts that come with fink's zope > yield only slightly better results. > > Is anyone else out there having any success (or similar problems to me) with > fink's zope? Depending on I'm not sure just what, issuing "sudo ./zopectl > start" results many times in the series of periods (while waiting (script is > issuing "sleep 1" repeatedly) being printed out only for startup to finally > fail. Other times there is a repeating message about the "cut" command and > stdin being too long, for which ctrl-c must be issued to stop the runaway > process, but usually after that zope has started successfully. This seems to > be the only time it starts successfully. > > I have walked through the zopectl script as best I could in a few hours > (with my very limited script experience) and it seems pretty complicated to > me. Seems designed to handle many permutations of situations in which pid > files exist and don't when the program is actually running and not and can > and can't be killed. There is a "kill -0" command near the beginning of the > script that I can't understand based on the kill manpage. Also I am not sure > how kill behaves when you try to kill a process that doesn't exist, does it > return 1 or 0, does it succeed or fail? > > There are a plethora of other questions that I have as I run through the > script but I am very interested in fixing it and being able to start and > stop zope reliably on my machine. Finally I have made sure zope and related > processes are not running and deleted all the pid and lock files in the > relevant directories and tried the "sudo ./zopectl start" (from within > /sw/sbin -- does cwd need to be something else?) command but even starting > it with a clean slate like that doesn't get it started. > > I did notice early on that the appropriate var directory doesn't get created > during the install (I have installed multiple times from binaries and > source) and only after creating the var directory myself did I have any luck > starting, but even then it is very inconsistent and doesn't start more often > than it starts. I have the modes of both relevant var directories set 777 > even though they are owned by root. I think the processes run as www. > > When I try to use the z2.py (to which /sw/sbin/zope-z2 is linked) to start > (zopectl actually calls this to start zope), I see repeating errors about > python2.1 being unable to open /sw/bin/zope-z2 (why is python trying to open > what is the python script file in the first place -- I don't know python at > all). This repeating error message cannot be stopped with ctrl-c -- only > with ctrl-d or ctrl-z. After ctrl-z or ctrl-d that terminal window must be > closed. > > I'm sure I'll have to brush up on scripting (really I only know about bash) > in order to make any progress myself, and even then, the logic in the > startup script seems a little contorted to me and there are no comments. It > would be helpful to me to know what 'we' need to do in the first place in > the script. I suppose mostly we want to make sure zope is not running before > we start it again unless we are giving different working directory > parameters. > > Hate to be longwinded like this but wanted to provide all the information I > have. Would appreciate any input from "Works fine for me." to actual help > fixing it (and if appropriate, making changes to the fink package). > > Thanks, > Tom Harris > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
