Running Zope in Debug Mode

If you wish to run Zope in debug mode, set the ‘debug-mode’ configuration file parameter to ‘on’ (this is the default). This will have the following effects:

• On UNIX, Zope will not detach from the controlling terminal.
• The Z_DEBUG_MODE environment variable gets set, which causes behavioral changes to Zope appropriate for software development. See the configuration file description of ‘debug-mode’ for more information.

Using ‘zopectl debug’

A utility known as ‘zopectl’ is installed into generated instance homes. You can use it to inspect a Zope instance’s running state via an interactive Python interpreter by passing zopectl the ‘debug’ parameter on the command line. The ‘top-level’ Zope object (the root folder) will be bound to the name ‘app’ within the interpreter. You can then use normal Python method calls against app and use the Python interpreter normally to inspect results:

[chrism@james Trunk]$ bin/zopectl debug
Starting debugger (the name "app" is bound to the top-level Zope object)
>>> app.objectIds()
['acl_users', 'Control_Panel', 'temp_folder', 'browser_id_manager', 'session_data_manager', 'error_log', 'index_html', 'standard_error_message']
>>>