Andreas Jung wrote:

--On Montag, 10. Januar 2005 5:50 Uhr +0000 Magnus Lawrie <m.lawrie@gmx.net> wrote:

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Andreas Jung wrote:

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--On Sonntag, 9. Januar 2005 23:52 Uhr +0000 Magnus Lawrie <m.lawrie@gmx.net> wrote:

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I installed python 2.3.4 and then zope 2.7.3 from source and ran mkzopeinstance.py, but am experiencing a problem with privileges. I gather that I have to change some, but I do not know exactly how to do that. I have looked at

http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/InstallingZope.stx

And this post:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/zope/users/177930

...but am no clearer.

Runzope results in:

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mdl/zope-instance/var/Data.fs.lock '

This usually happens if you install or run Zope as root which is not recommended (and documented in various places).

-aj

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Yes, I did read that. I downloaded tarballs and worked out of my home directory but (being a novice only) didn't find a better way than: sudo make install

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

There is no reason to run "make install" as root if you compile and install using the same account that will be used to run Zope!

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make install wouldn't complete.

Why not? Please provide a traceback or error messages.

Andreas

I don't have a record of the original error, but ran the make install command once again. The last three lines: copying version.txt -> /opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/. error: /opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/./version.txt: Permission denied make: *** [install] Error 1