[Zope] Changing a Zope environment variable?

Charlie Reiman creiman@kefta.com
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:44:26 -0700


I don't run zope as a service but there was a thread about this a few days
ago. As is the case with most window problems, fire up regedit and search
for 'z2'. There should be a startup command in there somewhere you can hack
up to your heart's content.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> Michael Fox
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 6:13 PM
> To: Chris McDonough; Jerome Alet
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Changing a Zope environment variable?
>
>
> Thanks Jerome/Chris,
>
> Adding a new Windows System Variable, and restarting the Zope
> service, didn't seem to do the trick...
>
> But, modifying start.bat to look like this -
>
> "E:\Zope\Zope-2.5.1\bin\python.exe" "E:\Zope\Zope-2.5.1\z2.py" -w
> 80 ZSESSION_TIMEOUT_MINS=180 -D %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
>
> Works great. The entry in z2.py (ZSESSION_TIMEOUT_MINS=180) is
> not required.
>
> But I still have the problem of wanting Zope to run as a winnt service =\
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Chris
> McDonough
> Sent: Thursday, 18 July 2002 10:53 AM
> To: Michael Fox; Jerome Alet
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Changing a Zope environment variable?
>
>
> You've successfully created a Python variable but you haven't set an
> environment variable. ;-)
>
> In Windows NT/2000/XP, I believe the incantation for setting
> environment variables is either:
>
>   - Use the Settings -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced ->
> Environment Variables tab
>     and set a "system variable" by clicking "New"
>
>    or
>
>   - In your Zope's START.BAT file, insert on a line above any of the
> others:
>
>     set ZSESSION_TIMEOUT_MINS=20
>
> HTH,
>
> - C
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Fox" <Michael@CenturySoftware.com.au>
> To: "Jerome Alet" <alet@librelogiciel.com>
> Cc: <zope@zope.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:45 PM
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Changing a Zope environment variable?
>
>
> Thanks Jerome,
>
> My Zope server is running on a Windows platform. After adding the
> following entry in z2.py (assuming this is the right place to do
> so)...
>
> ZSESSION_TIMEOUT_MINS=180
>
> And restarting the Zope WinNT service, the Transient Object
> Container's
> timeout value is still set to 20 mins?!
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> Jerome Alet
> Sent: Thursday, 18 July 2002 10:21 AM
> To: Michael Fox
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Changing a Zope environment variable?
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:04:02AM +1000, Michael Fox wrote:
> > how/where do I modify the value of a Zope enviroment variable?
>
> in Zope's startup script. (/etc/init.d/zope with my Debian)
>
> the ZShell software available from
> http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/
> also allows you to modify them while running, but possible collateral
> damage of such an action remains to be investigated (anyway it works).
>
> hth.
>
> Jerome Alet
>
>
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