[ZODB-Dev] ZEO on Windows

[Andy McKay]

Thanks everyone. I'll go off in to my corner and play around.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Dunigan" <craigd@persoft.com>
To: "Andy McKay" <andym@activestate.com>
Cc: <Zope-ZEO@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [ZODB-Dev] ZEO on Windows


> You need to edit the start.py file and comment out those two lines.  It's
> been running fine for me (three weeks now) on NT4 workstation as the ZEO
> server (I did that to allow existing backup schemes for our NT network to
> cover my "back-end") once I made the edit.  The two you already identified
> are the only things I've found so far.
>
> BTW, ZEO neatly solved the problem of allowing remote sites to hit a local
> Zserver for speed and reduced WAN bandwidth, while keeping them all (four,
> one local to the ZEO server, three remote across the world, connecting via
> frame relay) synchronized on the same ZODB.  Sweet.  Best thing of all
> was, it just *worked*.  No muss, no fuss (other than the minor edit
> mentioned above), just drop in place and forget it.  Double sweet!  Nice
> job, Digi-guys!
>
> Craig
>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Andy McKay wrote:
>
> > After the Python conference I am determined to run ZEO on my boxes, and
now
> > I remember why I didnt last time.
> >
> > All the examples are in Unix of course so Im trying to translate them
into
> > Windows. I found the following problems in the ZEO code so far:
> >
> > --
> >
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File "lib/python/ZEO/start.py", line 315, in ?
> >     if __name__=='__main__': main(sys.argv)
> >   File "lib/python/ZEO/start.py", line 297, in main
> >     signal.signal(signal.SIGHUP, handler)
> > AttributeError: SIGHUP
> >
> > --
> >
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File "lib/python/ZEO/start.py", line 315, in ?
> >     if __name__=='__main__': main(sys.argv)
> >   File "lib/python/ZEO/start.py", line 310, in main
> >     open(zeo_pid,'w').write("%s %s" % (os.getppid(), os.getpid()))
> > AttributeError: getppid
> >
> > os.getppid is Unix only
> >
> > --
> >
> > Has anyone else tried using ZEO on Windows or am I breaking new ground
here.
> > Im sure I asked this last time but I couldnt find anything on this in
the
> > mailarchives.
> >
> > Zope 23, Python 1.5.2, Win 2k, ZEO 0.4.1
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > --
> >   Andy McKay.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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