[Zope] I'm having a problem with ./start of ZServer on my machine....

[Phil Harris]

At the most you only need to do this to the var directory, leave the other
files owned by root or some other user.

Changing ownership on the zope dir makes your superuser password file
(access) available to the user nobody, probably not a good idea.

hth

Phil
phil.harris@zope.co.uk

----- Original Message -----
From: <technews@egsx.com>
To: Xeno Campanoli <xeno@aa.net>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] I'm having a problem with ./start of ZServer on my
machine....


> The way we set up the Zope directory is that we set everything to user
> nobody so in your case
>
> chown -R nobody:nobody /root/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86
>
> and make sure that the /root/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86/var is writable by
> nobody
>
> That should solve the permission issues since the server runs as nobody (I
> assume)
>
> Adonis
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>
> > The symptom is as follows:
> >
> > ------
> > 1999-12-23T19:41:32 INFO(0) ZServer PCGI Server started at Thu Dec 23
11:41:32 1999
> >         Unix socket: /root/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86/var/pcgi.soc
> > ------
> > 1999-12-23T19:41:32 INFO(0) ZServer Monitor Server (V1.5) started on
port 8099
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File "/root/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86/z2.py", line 574, in ?
> >     pf = open(PID_FILE, 'w')
> > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/root/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86/var/Z2.pid'
> > devil:~/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86#
> >
> > the latter indicated directory being in /root for the root user.  As
this is
> > apparently supposed to work 'out of the box', I thought it would be
worth
> > emailing you first.
> >
> > My system is a Debian slink, and cksum gets the following:
> >
> > 1156543682 2384334 Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86.tgz
> >
> > Please advise.  Thank you.  Sincerely, Xeno
> >
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