When Zope is started as root it will be run as an other user (nobody i believe). Therefore this user has to have the tigth to read your *.zexp. This is explained in the various files you find in the doc directory of your Zope. You can tell Zope as what user it should run with the -u parameter. Something like python z2.py -u zope would therefore make Zope to run as user Zope. Robert On Tuesday 06 January 2004 03:09, Tom Purl wrote:

I was developing a Plone site this afternoon and exported it to a file, Plone.zexp. I then moved that file to the following directory on my Debian Linux box:

/var/lib/zope/import

I then go to import the Plone instance by entering Plone.zexp in the "Import file name" textbox and click on the "Import" button. However, when I do, I get the following error:

Error Type: IOError Error Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/zope/instance/default/import/Plone.zexp'

I thought that there might be a problem with permissions because the import folder's owner is root and its group is root. However, *every* file in directory associated with Zope shares this trait, and I haven't seen any other problems elsewhere. Also, I'm logged in as a user that has Manager and Owner rights over the root folder of my Zope instance.

I googled for some help but couldn't find anything. Has anyone else seen a problem like this?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Tom Purl

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