Michel Pelletier wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: vinod tipparaju [mailto:tipparaj@cis.ohio-state.edu] Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 11:12 AM To: zope@zope.org; support@digicool.com Subject: [Zope] trying to run ZServer with PCGI

Hi I was trying to run ZServer with pcgi .. ValueError: unpack list of wrong size

can u help me with what the reason for this error could be??? and I 've changed HTTP_PORT to some other number cause i was already using 8080..it should'nt make a difference..should it vinod.

This means you have an error in your PCGI resource file (usually Zope.cgi) or you are not pointing Zope at the right file.

-Michel

thankx... well when i tried the above, i compiled in the directory where in i had both z2.py and zope.cgi...but still.. now i copied zope.cgi to cgi-bin of my webserver(apache) and then i tried to compile it again..by giving it that path...***/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi (I am the root and I have permissions on var directory in zope) the error i get this time..is to my surprise... Traceback (innermost last): File "z2.py", line 494, in ? pf = open(PID_FILE, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/Zope-2.0.1-src/var/Z2.pid' how can permission be denied when i am doing it as root???and i've got write permission on it??? can u help me with this..pl thank you vinod.