Thanks for the replies, folks. I come from more of a Linux background than NT, so I just wanted to make certain I had my facts straight about NT before I try to actually get into a conversation about what is and what is not happening. Jeff

-----Original Message----- From: Meilicke, Scott [SMTP:scott.meilicke@intp.com] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:10 AM To: 'Jeffrey Robinson'; zope@zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] Zope as a service on NT

I'm not sure if it is a hack or not, but I run zope on two NT 4 boxes, and one w2k box, and it behaves just the the rest of my services. It stops and starts with a shutdown and startup of the box. I have never had to manually stop or start outside of developmental efforts.

-Scott

-----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Robinson [ <mailto:Jeffrey.Robinson@MCICoach.com>] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 7:53 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Zope as a service on NT

Hi folks;

Currently we have Zope (2.4.2) running on a test Windows NT server as we test different products for use as the framework for our corporate Intranet.

Zope is installed behind IIS using PCGI, but our admins have some concerns

about how Zope runs, and I cannot verify with my limited knowledge of the product.

I know on NT there are two ways to run Zope, either as a "standard" program, or as a service. For our needs, I believed the service would be ideal; but according to one of the admins when Zope is run as a service it is a "hack" that launches the "standard" way of running Zope.

Personally, I had assumed that it was running in the background like any other NT service (maybe simply because I never saw a console window).

The crux of the situation is (understandably) that the IT department does not want to run anything that they manually have to restart.

Is there any definitive answer/description available about how Zope runs on NT? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks; Jeff Robinson Graphic Designer Motor Coach Industries

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