Hi Michael, Thanks for the information. I tried with both options and start zope successfully with second option but no the first one. Thanks again. JH -----Original Message----- From: Michael Joseph [mailto:michael@jamwarehouse.com] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 3:14 AM To: 'Jerry Hsieh'; zope@zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] a newbie question Hi Jerry, Either: Run /path/to/runzope as a non-root user and leave effective-user unset in zope.conf Or: Set effective-user to a non-root user and execute runzope as root. michael _____________________________________________ From: zope-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Hsieh Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:37 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] a newbie question Hi all, I tried to install Zope 2.7.0(tar ball) on RedHat 9.0 w/ Python 2.3.3 installed. When I run /path/to/runzope I got the following error message 2004-05-06T08:27:59 PANIC(300) Zope A user was not specified to setuid to; fix this to start as root (change the effective-user directive in zope.conf) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/run.py", line 49, in ? run() File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/run.py", line 19, in run start_zope(opts.configroot) File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/__init__.py", line 48, in start_zope starter.dropPrivileges() File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/__init__.py", line 203, in dropPrivileges return dropPrivileges(self.cfg) File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/__init__.py", line 319, in dropPrivileges raise ZConfig.ConfigurationError(msg) ZConfig.ConfigurationError: A user was not specified to setuid to; fix this to start as root (change the effective-user directive in zope.conf) I modified the effective-user parameter to root won't work either. I had search on google and read the readme but can't find any hint don't know if this had ever happen to others. Any help? Thanks for your time JH << File: ATT00024.txt >>