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:
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> 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
> 
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