Fredrik Lundh fredrik at effbot.org
Fri Feb 2 09:49:43 EST 2001

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Ben Ocean wrote:
> > >  >>>
> > > if not READ_ONLY:
> > >      pf = open(PID_FILE, 'w')
> > >      pid=str(os.getpid())
> > >      try: pid=str(os.getppid())+' '+pid
> > >      except: pass
> > >      pf.write(pid)
> > >      pf.close()
> > > <<<
> > > It specifically identified the *try* statement as the choke-point.
> > > How do I trouble-shoot this?
> >
> >I assume "choke" means that it stopped and printed a
> >traceback message?  how about posting that traceback?
>
> ...with traceback...
>  >>>
> Traceback (innermost last):
>    File "/apache/Zope-2.2.4-linux2-x86/z2.py", line 710, in ?
>      pf = open(PID_FILE, 'w')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/apache/Zope-2.2.4-linux2-x86/var/Z2.pid
> '<<<

I'd say it specifically identified the *open* statement as
the choke-point...

Do you have write privileges in that directory?  If the file
already exists, is it writable?

Cheers /F

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