[Zope] Port 8021 Malfunction

[beno]

At 09:16 AM 10/1/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>"netstat -n -a" will tell you if there is something LISTENING on that port.
>Try it before you start zope, the port may already be busy. If not, try it
>after and make sure it is listening.

I ran that before shutting down Zope and the port is not in use.

>I'm pretty sure Zope makes it abundantly clear on startup if it can or can't
>get the ports it wants.

I forget what problem I had once upon a time that caused me to do this, but 
now I always start zctl.py with a nuhup command.

>There is also a bug with zope and ftp that you may be running into. If you
>run in debug mode, zope prints to the console when it gets an incoming
>connection. If stdout is not dumped someplace (a file, tty, or /dev/null),
>zope will hang. The work around is to put stdout someplace useful or run in
>production mode.

Could you be more specific?
TIA,
beno