[Zope] zope.conf read-only settings

[S.Hayles]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Chris Withers wrote:

> S.Hayles wrote:
>> 
>>>> AFAICS the directives zserver-read-only-mode and read-only-database just 
>>>> set the environment value ZOPE_READ_ONLY and no change in ZOPE's 
>>>> operation results. Am I right? This is ZOPE 2.7.7
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Not really sure what you're asking?
>>> Did you try these and find they made no difference?
>> 
>> Yes, and I've looked at the code and can't see any way they can make a 
>> difference.
>
> Well, the obviously make some difference, or you wouldn't get errors from 
> Formulator ;-)

In fact, it was setting read only in the storage configuration that caused 
the Formulator error, not setting zserver-read-only-mode or 
read-only-database.

I'll try asking on the dev list.

Thanks

Steven