[Zope] Starting zope from a python script

[Dieter Maurer]

Chris Keyes writes:
 > I'm trying to write a Python script to control zope, basically it creates
 > the instance home etc and so on and then fires up zope, checks for z2.pid
 > and then prods zope and does some things to it...
 > 
 > Thats all ok, fine etc... but I am writing a script that reverses the
 > process if anything fails (it should never fail, but while I'm looking after
 > it, things will inevitably go wrong) so...
 > 
 > I want to be able to kill the Zope processes... Simple me thinks, I am using
 > a -u to set the user so I can kill all the threads belonging to that user
 > and the thing will die?? No, not quiet, the process that started the Zope
 > instance keeps restarting it (most of the time this sounds like a great
 > option but...)
"Z2.pid" contains 2 pid's. One is that of the demon (that is restarting
Zope in case of failute), the other of that of Zope itself.
You need to stop both processes...

Dieter