Thanks for the reply! effective-user is already set to zope, I restarted just to make sure. No change. In the docs it mentions that this only has an effect when started as user root. Is there a way to tell which user it is starting as in /etc/rc.d/ ? -ed On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Kalyan Jammigumpula wrote:

Look for zope.conf in $INSTACE_HOME/etc. You should see something like effective-user. Set that and that should be all. -k Ed Colmar wrote:

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Greetings!

I recently installed a new zope 2.7 rpm on redhat. Everything went smooth and zope is running great.

I have some external methods that do various tasks throughout the filesystem. In this case, the files are in a particular mysql directory.

I have created a group for zope and mysql called "www" and changed ownership of this directory to that group.

I can read and write to this directory as the zope user.

My external methods fail with invalid permissions.

I have verified that the setuid is zope, but I am not positive that zope is actually running under the zope user.

How can I set/verify that this is the case?

On all of my previous zope installs, I would log in as zope, and do ./start it appears that this convention has changed.

Any clues?

Thanks in advance!

-ed

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