[Zope3-dev] problem with multiple instances of zope3 as daemon via init script on gentoo

[Bernd Dorn]

On 11.01.2006, at 15:42, Bernd Dorn wrote:

>
> On 11.01.2006, at 14:27, Jim Washington wrote:
>
>> Bernd Dorn wrote:
>>
>>> hi all
>>>
>>> i have two init scripts (see below) which start a zope3 instance
>>> this works fine if i start one of them, but if i try to start  
>>> the  second, the following message appears
>>>
>>> * Starting Zope in /home/zope1/timetables ...
>>> WARNING! zdrun is managing a different program!
>>> our program   = ['/home/zope1/timetables/bin/runzope']
>>> daemon's args = ['/home/zope1/screens/bin/runzope']
>>> daemon process already running; pid=10839
>>>
>>> seems that the pid of the other instance is taken, does anybody  
>>> know  how to solve this
>>> or is there another way to start zope3 as an unprivileged user?
>>> as far as i know there is no effective-user directive in  
>>> zope.conf as  in zope2
>>>
>> Does this script put a zdsock file in /etc/init.d?  I have noticed  
>> that the zdsock file is created in the directory where zopectl is  
>> called.  If this is what you are seeing, one solution might be to  
>> do some cd statements (e.g., cd $INSTANCE_HOME) so that multiple  
>> zdsock files are created, one for each instance.
>>
>
> thx, you brought me on the right track!
>
> it is actually a problem with the default zdaemon.conf in zopeskel,  
> where socket-name is just set to zdsock
>
> this will be placed in the working directory, which in my case was  
> the home directory of the user because of the "-" switch to su
>
> so i added the following line to zdaemon.conf:
>
> socket-name $DATADIR/zopectlsock, which this is the behavior of  
> zope 2 skel
>
> i would say this is a bug, because instances created with  
> mkzopeinstance can not be run in parallel
> additionally with socket-name set to zdsock one is unable to run  
> zopectl as root, because then the socket gets created in the home  
> of root where the user the daemon is running on has no access. this  
> leads to an access denied error.
>
> the init script is now the same as with zope2, i can just call  
> zopectl directly without suing to the zope user
>
> i will fix this in the trunk

done see: http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/zopeskel/etc/ 
zdaemon.conf.in?rev=41267&view=rev