[Zope] zope as win32 service and stupid_log_file

[Thomas B. Passin]

[Echlin, Michael]

> I am not sure if this applies or not but here goes.
>
> On a WIN NT server I wanted to get zope running with another program on
the
> same server that also required python. Problem is it needed a different
> version of python that had been hacked and wouldn't work with Zope. It
also
> set up some environment variables that zope couldn't live with.
>
> So I installed zope as an app and used srvany (part of the windows NT
> resource kit) to serve cmd calling a cmd file that set the variables to
> values zope could live with and then called zopes start.bat
>
> It is installed as an app and runs as a service in it's own virtual
machine.
>

It's a good approach but I tend to just go to the registry and change the
command line that the service uses when it launches Zope.

Cheers,

Tom P