[Zope] Stopping PCGI publisher from starting

[Alexander Staubo]

Sorry if this is all easily understood by studying the source code --
and I'm sure it is -- but please help me out anyway.

If ZServer is running, it seems the PCGI wrapper -- or mod_pcgi? -- is
able to connect directly to ZServer, without the need of
pcgi-wrapper/pcgi_publisher.py. This is fine, and it is our current
scenario, which works great.

Unfortunately, if ZServer is _not_ up and running, the PCGI wrapper will
kick in and start serving stuff itself. This is annoying when doing
maintenance that involves stopping ZServer.

Is fixing this as trivial as commenting out stuff from Zope.cgi?

The main reason for my trouble is that occasionally I find the Zope OFS
is behaving oddly -- SQL connections suddenly being closed and refusing
to open, for example -- and in these cases I often find pcgi-wrapper
running.

This happened again just five minutes ago, and the process list looked
like this:

[...]
16947  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
16968  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17111  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17128  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17153  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17274  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17275  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17276  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17278  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17322  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17327  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17328  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17375  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17383  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
17415  ?  S    0:00 pcgi-wrapper /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi 
17416  ?  S    0:00 pcgi-wrapper /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi 
17417  ?  S    0:00 pcgi-wrapper /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi 
17418  ?  S    0:00 pcgi-wrapper /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi 
17419  ?  S    0:00 pcgi-wrapper /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi 
17420  ?  Z    0:00 (Zope.cgi <zombie>)
17425  ?  S    0:00 pcgi-wrapper /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi 
17431  ?  S    0:00 pcgi-wrapper /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi 
17434  ?  S    0:00 pcgi-wrapper /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi 
17435  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 
31764  ?  S    0:00 ftpd: firewall.mop.no: zope: STOR 1c.gif

17414  ?  S N  0:06 /usr/local/bin/python
/usr/src/Zope-2.0.0b5-src/z2.py -p /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi
-t1 -
17440  ?  S N  0:00 /usr/local/bin/python
/usr/src/Zope-2.0.0b5-src/z2.py -p /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi
-t1 -
17441  ?  S N  0:00 /usr/local/bin/python
/usr/src/Zope-2.0.0b5-src/z2.py -p /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi
-t1 -

Should this ever happen?

-- 
Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
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