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A customised zope server startup script for Linux

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# Custom Linux/Solaris Zope server instance start/stop bash script.
#
##########
# Usage:-
# Save file to:
#     /etc/init.d/zope
# modify the PLONE_INSTANCE path as described below
#
# Go to the rc3 directory:
#     cd /etc/init.d/rc3.d
#
# Create a symlink to start the Zope instance at bootup:
#     ln -s /etc/init.d/zope S49zope
##########
#
# Change to installation path of zope instance
PLONE_INSTANCE="/home/zope/myinstance"
export PLONE_INSTANCE

case "$1" in

'start')
        # start zope server
        ### all lines with ### are commented out and run the server in debug mode
        ### if [ -f "$PLONE_INSTANCE"/bin/runzope ]; then
        if [ -f "$PLONE_INSTANCE"/bin/zopectl ]; then
                echo "starting Zope Server"
                ### "$PLONE_INSTANCE"/bin/runzope > /dev/null 2>&1 &
                "$PLONE_INSTANCE"/bin/zopectl start > /dev/null 2>&1 &
        fi
        ;;

'stop')
        # stop zope server
        PID=`/bin/ps -e -u 0 | /bin/fgrep python | /bin/awk '{print $1}'`
        if [ ! -z "$PID" ] ; then
                /bin/kill ${PID} > /dev/null 2>&1
        fi
        ;;

*)
        ### echo "usage: $PLONE_INSTANCE/bin/runzope {start|stop}"
        echo "usage: $PLONE_INSTANCE/bin/zope {start|stop}"
        ;;

esac