[Zope-dev] Proposed installation changes for review

[Chris McDonough]

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:07, Paul Winkler wrote:
> A few questions / concerns listed below, otherwise it looks
> fine to me...
> 
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 04:41:48PM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote:
> >   debug mode
> 
> does this still toggle a whole bunch of things?

Yes.  It's still the case that nobody really knows what debug mode
means. ;-)  We just switched from only being able to specify the unknown
via a command-line switch to being able to switch it from a config file
and the command line.

> >   production installation (on/off)
> 
> what's this mean?

Sorry, that should have been "product installation".  This is the same
as what the FORCE_PRODUCT_LOAD envvar does now.

> >   network servers (http, dav, ftp, monitor, etc)
> 
> is this where you set the ports?

Yes.

> 
> One thing I didn't see in your list is a way to extend the products
> path (currently I do that with $PRODUCTS_PATH).  We need that.

This wasn't documented in ENVIRONMENT.txt so it never made it in. 
Thanks for catching it.

> One more question: Does "zopectl.py" always detach from the terminal
> (booo) or not (yay) ?  

No.  It can detach from the terminal, but it needn't. It is actually a
mini shell.

[chrism@james inst]$ bin/zopectl 
program: /tmp/inst/bin/runzope
daemon manager not running
zdctl> ?

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
fg              foreground      help            kill            
logreopen       logtail         quit            reload          
restart         shell           show            start           
status          stop            wait            

Undocumented commands:
======================
EOF             

zdctl> fg
export EVENT_LOG_FILE
EVENT_LOG_FILE=
/tmp/inst/bin/runzope

HTH,

- C