Greetings. I'm going crazy trying to figure this one out. What I want is pretty simple: to have Zope (2.6.1, python 2.1.3) run on port 80 on a Red Hat 8 system. That's got to be pretty common, right? I've got a startup script which runs as root, and launches Zope with the -u flag to change the process owner to a user named 'zope'. Problem is, I can't figure out how to set the ownership and permissions of the var directory to get everything to work properly. I've tried setting everything as instructed in doc/SETUID.txt, but that doesn't work for me. I've also found conflicting information in the archives of this list and in other Zope docs. Basically, I get one of two problems: 1) If I set the owner of var and its contents to root, Zope launches just fine, but if I try to pack the database through the ZMI, I get permission-denied errors. My Plone site managers also start getting weird permission-denied errors after a while, too. 2) If I set the owner of var and its contents to the Zope user 'zope', Zope silently fails on launch. If, however, I let Zope launch with root owning var and then, after it's running, change the owner to 'zope', everything works just fine. Until the next time Zope needs to restart, when it silently fails. Ugh. I've tried setting var's owner to root and group to zope (the group that the zope user belongs to), with g+w permission to var and its contents, but then I still get permission-denied and 'Operation not permitted' errors when packing the ODB. I've done chmod o+t and chmod a+s, neither of which seem to have helped much. (I don't really understand what they do, but one was indicated in SETUID.txt, and the other somewhere else on zope.org or someplace like that.) Please, there's *got* to be a definitive answer on how to set up a linux system for running Zope on privileged ports. Can someone post or point me to it? Thanks, ..Ian Beatty -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- Dr. Ian Beatty webmaster@physics.umass.edu Webmaster, Department of Physics voice: 413.545.9483 Univ. of Massachusetts fax: 413.545.4884 Amherst, MA 01003-4525 USA http://www.physics.umass.edu/ -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- --