"1" in "-S 1=" is just the storage name you want to pass to ZEO clients. If you pass more than one storage to clients (say, you use DBTab on the ZEO clients), you might want to choose more descriptive names (like 'main_storage','foo_storage',etc) on both ends, but that's your choice. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Paul Winkler [mailto:pw_lists@slinkp.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 6:01 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] DirectoryStorage & ZEO... how? On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 06:10:27PM +0900, Wankyu Choi wrote:

Here's how I do it.

1. custom_zodb.py on ZEO Client (snip)

already had something equivalent, thanks

2. start script on ZEO client

(snip) yup.

4. start script on ZEO Storage Server

(snip) exec python /usr/lib/zope/ZEO/start.py -u zope -D -p 8888 -S

1=$ZOPE_HOME/zeo_custom_zodb:Storage \

ok, that's what i thought the -S syntax was, though i wasn't sure about the "1="

4. zeo_custom_zodb.py on ZSS (snip)

aha! for some daft reason i thought that custom_zodb was a magic name. i was wondering how on earth to combine the client and server setup in one custom_zodb... the answer is, "don't" :)

You should sudo to the user ZEO expects ( not root ): create a user for the sole purpose of running ZEO. If you try to run ZEO as root or do not sudo to the ZEO user, you'd end up with ZEO clients waiting forever for answers from ZEO: that is, they'll just hang and you won't know what's happening since ZEO logs nothing about this weirdness even with "STUPID_LOG_SEVERITY=-300". I wasted more than a week to figure out what was going on.

eek! thanks to your message i spent only a few minutes fiddling with permissions. well, actually "find . -exec chown zope {} \;" took quite a long time in my directorystorage ;-)

Hope this helps.

you rock! i'm editing your message into a doc to send to Toby which i hope he'll consider including with the DirectoryStorage docs. -- Paul Winkler home: http://www.slinkp.com "Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!" _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )