I do most of my Hep development and testing on OS X, so yes, it works.

To see what's going on with your server, either do

twistd -nf hep.tap (the -n means no-fork, which will keep the Hep
process running in the foreground and print logs to sys.stdout)

or take a look at the twistd.log file, in the same directory as your
hep.tap.  That will show the output from Hep, and probably give you a
clue why it isn't running.

Abe

On Sep 12, 2004, at 7:33 PM, Abe Fettig wrote:

This could represent a security risk, BTW.  I'm working on adding
support for binding to the ports as root, and then switching to a
non-privileged user.  This would prevent a malicious user from
tricking the hep server process into doing  bad things as root.  For
the moment, though, there are no such protections in place.

Your other option is to run all services on ports > 1000.  Then you
don't need special permissions.

Abe