Anand Shah wrote:

I tried this by the following command

ln -s /zopeinstance/bin/zopectl

in my /etc/init.d folder... but somehow it is not starting...

Am i missing something?

Yes. A script must be present in a runlevel directory in order to be used, and it must be named properly. Your distro probably provides tools for managing what's present in the runlevels (in RH9 there's System Settings > Server Settings > Services) but you can also just do it with symlinks at the command line. See /etc/rc5.d --jcc

Bernd Dorn wrote:

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nand Shah wrote:

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How does one create a service/startup script for Zope to start automatically upon booting a machine, particularly for Zope 2.7

with 2.7 it's rather easy, place a symlink to INSTANCE_HOME/bin/zopectl into your init directory

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