[Zope] Solution for ERROR(200) ZServer Cannot write PID file when used INSTANCE_HOME

[aZaZel]

Grégoire Weber wrote:

> Hi Evan,
> Hi all,
> 
> I made a cc to the zope list because other people could encounter the same
> problem and I couldn't find anything appropriate about the solution in the
> list.
> 
> I tried to make my life easier with INSTANCE_HOME as described in
> http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/instancehome. All seems to work fine. But
> Zope displays the following error on startup: 
>    2001-02-13T09:41:49 ERROR(200) ZServer Cannot write PID file.
> 
> After some searching I know what happend. I _moved_ the whole var directory
> to my INSTANCE_HOME so zope couldn't write the pcgi.pid to the disappeared
> var directory anymore.
> 
> So I propose to mention the fact in your the How-To that at least a empty
> var directory has to remain in the original zope installation.
> 
> This note applies to Zope 2.3.0 (and possibly to former versions too) on a
> NT4SP6us machine.
> 
> Greetings, Greg
> 
> P.S.: Sorry about my emglish. It's not my mother tongue!
> 
this is not true on linux where debian installation uses INSTANCE_HOME 
to put the var directory and other things such as the new installed 
products in /var/lib/zope  and the code (without another var directory) 
in /usr/lib/zope, but the last zope package is for zope 2.2.4.