[Zope] easy questions (1 zcatalog 1 zserver console?)

[alan runyan]

when I was cataloging my zope site and was editing i did get a conflict
'competing' writes, which reminded me: how many times does ZOPE try to write
to the ZODB and then 'fails' and roll's back - is it 3? assuming this size
is configurable where would I go and change this?  when i was cataloging i
got this:
2000-03:20T03:24:27 ERROR(200) ZODB Couldn't load state for
'\000\000\000\000\000\000\350\217' <- this happens right before the
competing writes. could someone explain what this \xxx\yyy\zzz is?

and how do I redirect ZServer's console to a file?  I'm in DOS right now
(havent done this in awhile) - and tried to "C:\Program
Files\WebSite\bin\python.exe" "C:\Program Files\WebSite\z2.py" -D %1 %2 %3
%4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 > C:\temp\zope.log

that didnt work..  In linux I've tried redirectings stderr and stdout to a
file and i believe it still wouldnt didnt work.

thanks,
~alan