...is currently useless, as far as I can see. This stops you specifying a different location for runzope, which is handy if you're doing buildout-based stuff that uses a deployment. I think the attached patch fixes this, but I'm wondering: - are these are tests for this area - why does self.program need to be a one element list? cheers, Chris =================================================================== --- src/Zope2/Startup/zopectl.py (revision 115104) +++ src/Zope2/Startup/zopectl.py (working copy) @@ -114,11 +114,14 @@ positional_args_allowed = 1 - program = "zopectl" schemadir = os.path.dirname(Zope2.Startup.__file__) schemafile = "zopeschema.xml" uid = gid = None + # this indicates that no explict program has been provided. + # the command line option can set this. + program = None + # XXX Suppress using Zope's <eventlog> section to avoid using the # same logging for zdctl as for the Zope appserver. There still # needs to be a way to set a logfile for zdctl. @@ -169,7 +172,9 @@ config = self.configroot self.directory = config.instancehome self.clienthome = config.clienthome - if config.runner and config.runner.program: + if self.program: + self.program = [self.program] + elif config.runner and config.runner.program: self.program = config.runner.program else: self.program = [os.path.join(self.directory, "bin", "runzope")] -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk