[Zope] - Zope dies under mysterious circumstances

[Andy Dustman]

Thus far, I haven't been able to make Zope die, but it does die. I am
actually running it now using the supervise program which comes with
qmail's daemontools package (I get log rotation this way, as well). I know
it died because I checked the contol panel. Going back into the log at
about the time it happened, there are no obvious error messages or
tracebacks, but I do see this:

Publishing module Main
Serving HTTP on port 8080 ...

No core dumps that I can find.  Python-1.5.1 (based on the Oli Andrich
SRPMS, so the official patches are there), RedHat 5.1. 

Oh, btw, and I just realized I wasn't doing this either: When starting the
server (serve.sh), python should be invoked with -u for unbuffered stdout
and stderr I/O, unless this is being set somewhere within Zope (not sure
how you would do this, though). I have my own xHTTPServer-based app, and
logging works a lot better this way, particularly if you are writing to a
pipe (which I am). My actual startup is:

cd $ZOPEHOME
env - PATH=$PATH \
        supervise $ZOPEHOME/var/run /usr/bin/python -u serve.py 2>&1 \
        | cyclog $ZOPEHOME/var/log &

(supervise and cyclog are both in qmail's daemontools package.
www.qmail.org)

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