Hi Pavlos, thanks for sending your script! It seems to me that you have a script etc/rc.d/init.d/functions (path from whereever your zope script is located) that carris such interesting functions like deamon or status... at least my system does not offer those commands. What system are you using this on? Linux? What distribution? From your script, the start script and z2.py I learned that it is the line starting with "-D" that prevents Zope from forking. If you issue a python z2.py -h you get the help text and it tells you that -D starts Zope in a debug-mode preventing it from forking from the terminal. If you delete the -D line in the start script and the trailing "\" in the line before, you can use start from your scripts. Just issuing start will use the built in config-values. You can overwrite them like shown in the mail from Pavlos (copied below) in the start_zope script. Again, python z2.py -h tells you more about the options. Regards Jochen At 17:20 Uhr -0500 15.11.1999, Pavlos Christoforou wrote:

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Jochen Haeberle wrote:

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Anyone else out there who could help us???

Jochen

This is the one I use which was posted on the list some time ago, by ... oh boy I forgot.

#!/bin/sh # # description: Runs Zope # chkconfig: 345 80 45 # Source function library. . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# See how we were called. case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting Zope: " touch /var/lock/subsys/zope daemon /usr/local/bin/start_zope echo

;; stop) echo -n "Shutting down Zope: " /usr/local/Zope/stop rm -f /var/lock/subsys/zope echo ;; status) status zope ;; restart) $0 stop $0 start ;; *) echo "Usage: zope {start|stop|status|restart}" exit 1 esac

exit 0

and start_zope is basically: #! /bin/sh PYTHONHOME=/usr/local/Zopec export PYTHONHOME exec /usr/local/bin/python \ /usr/local/Zope/z2.py \ -a <ip add> \ -d <ip add> \ -u nobody \ -w 8080 \ -f 8021 \ -m 8033 \ -l /usr/local/Zope/var/ZServer.log

Pavlos