[Zope] running zope (newbie problem)

[Pavlos Christoforou]

Hi Ethan

You have started Zope as root which changes UID to nobody. Therefore make
sure you change the permissions on the var directory (Zope/var) so that
UID nobody can read and write.

Pavlos

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Ethan Fremen wrote:

> Ok, it's Zope 2.0.0b5.  I have RedHat 6.0. 
> I downloaded the source of python 1.5.2 and compiled --withthreads
> I installed python in the default /usr/local/lib,
> Killed the old python 1.5.1
> Symbolic links to /usr/bin for python and python 1.5 so the other RH
> stuff doesn't break.
> Apache has been terminated.
> Installed zope in /usr/local/bin/Zope using python wo_pcgi.py as root.
> ran start. get this message:
> ------
> 1999-08-26T22:04:48 PROBLEM(100) ZServer Computing default hostname
> ------
> 1999-08-26T22:04:48 INFO(0) ZServer Medusa (V1.10) started at Thu Aug 26
> 23:04:48 1999
> 	Hostname: localhost
> 	Port:8080
> 
> ------
> 1999-08-26T22:04:48 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Thu Aug 26
> 23:04:48 1999
> 	Authorizer:None
> 	Hostname: localhost.localdomain
> 	Port: 8021
> ------
> 1999-08-26T22:04:48 INFO(0) ZServer Monitor Server (V1.5) started on
> port 8099
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/Zope/z2.py", line 494, in ?
>     pf = open(PID_FILE, 'w')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/bin/Zope/var/Z2.pid'
> 
> what am i doing wrong?
> 
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