[ZODB-Dev] ZEO signal feature

[Guido van Rossum]

> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:37:12AM +0100, Toby Dickenson wrote:
> > > Note that it only *starts* as root, and drops back to normal privs if
> > > you use runzeo with the -u switch.
> > 
> > Yes, but it still drops root privelidges a little too late for my
> > liking. Both ZEO and Zope open log files as root, and Zope (but
> > not ZEO) even opens the storage as root.
> 
> Can this be changed, though?

It's probably unavoidable that the log file is opened as root -- it's
used to report "can't setuid()". :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)