if you run zope as root it changes to the "nobody" user. just make sure the var directory and files in there are writable for that user. jens On Saturday, March 9, 2002, at 09:47 , James Webster wrote:
Many apologies for posting a very newbie-ish question but I'm keen to get started with Zope on my Mac.
I've compiled python 2.1.2 successfully, following the instructions in the zope.org site.
I've run the wo_pcgi.py script and compiled Zope-2.5.0 into /usr/local/Zope-2.5.0.
However, when I run sudo ./start, I get the following message:
<stdout> ------ 2002-03-07T20:36:14 INFO(0) ZODB Opening database for mounting: '16517888_1015533374.122884' ------ 2002-03-07T20:36:14 INFO(0) ZODB Mounted database '16517888_1015533374.122884' at /temp_folder ------ 2002-03-07T20:36:40 INFO(0) Zope New disk product detected, determining if we need to fix up any ZClasses. ------ 2002-03-07T20:36:40 INFO(0) ZServer HTTP server started at Thu Mar 7 20:36:40 2002 Hostname: localhost Port: 8080 ------ 2002-03-07T20:36:40 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Thu Mar 7 20:36:40 2002 Hostname: localhost Port: 8021 ------ 2002-03-07T20:36:40 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.0/z2.py, line 688, in ? IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/Zope-2.5.0/var/Z2.pid'
</stdout>
I know enough to understand that there seems to be an ownership question here but what I haven't been able to work out is how I ought to change ownership. Do I need to create a special user to run zope, or what? I'm sure that the answer is staring me in the face but I thought that I would ask the community, whilst apologising for what might be a rather trivial enquiry.
Many thanks
James
-- Dr J Webster
work: jgw@wincoll.ac.uk pleasure: james@xargla.org
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