[Zope] Solution for ERROR(200) ZServer Cannot write PID file when used INSTANCE_HOME

[Grégoire Weber]

Hi Evan,
Hi all,

I made a cc to the zope list because other people could encounter the same
problem and I couldn't find anything appropriate about the solution in the
list.

I tried to make my life easier with INSTANCE_HOME as described in
http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/instancehome. All seems to work fine. But
Zope displays the following error on startup: 
   2001-02-13T09:41:49 ERROR(200) ZServer Cannot write PID file.

After some searching I know what happend. I _moved_ the whole var directory
to my INSTANCE_HOME so zope couldn't write the pcgi.pid to the disappeared
var directory anymore.

So I propose to mention the fact in your the How-To that at least a empty
var directory has to remain in the original zope installation.

This note applies to Zope 2.3.0 (and possibly to former versions too) on a
NT4SP6us machine.

Greetings, Greg

P.S.: Sorry about my emglish. It's not my mother tongue!

_____________________________________
Grégoire Weber
mailto:gregoire.weber@switzerland.org