[Zope-Coders] *tap *tap* is this thing on?

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
03 Apr 2003 10:13:29 -0500


On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 02:11, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 02:47 PM, Richard Jones wrote:
> > I've got a couple of minor changes to make in the installation 
> > (runzeo.py isn't installed and the bin script command-line help output 
> > isn't useful), and wanted to make sure I'm not stepping on any toes.
> 
> OK, having now looked into the ZEO situation in 2.7 more closely, I've 
> found all sorts of places that it's broken. Mostly this has to do with 
> the installation method. I've checked in fixed mkzeoinstance and 
> mkzeoinst.py to get most of the way there.

Thanks!

> I've hit a nasty blocker - the zdrun daemon attempts to execute 
> runzeo.py, but without setting the sys.path in some manner that allows 
> runzeo.py to find ZConfig. That's a bugger to track down 'cos the error 
> is eaten up during the brief time "off the air" between zdrun 
> fork/exec'ing and runzeo setting up new logging. Gah.

One strategy would be to sed out a small shell script like the "zopectl"
shell script (which is written to an instance_home's "bin" during
install") which itself sets the PYTHONPATH and calls zdctl.

> Is this on anyone's plate?

Not that I know of.  But guido may have an opinion about this...

- C


> 
> I'm off to see Daredevil :)
> 
> 
>     Richard
> 
> 
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