[Zope] Problems installing Zope

[Joseph A. Martin]

> Hello,
> 
> following doc/INSTALL.txt (the quick start) the first command
> finishes with "Done." which seems to hint at success.
> However, the INSTALL description says that I will be given
> a user name and password. This is not the case, nor can I find
> any point where the procedure is unhappy.

I have had the same anomaly on Mandrake 6.0. The installation is
successful the install script just fails to generate a password. I
fixed that by using the zpasswd.py script. The following output shows
how I used it.

hallam$ cd /usr/local/zope
hallam$ export PYTHONHOME=/usr/local/zope
hallam$ bin/python zpasswd.py ~/access
Username: mark
Password: mark
Verify password: mark
Please choose a format from:

SHA - SHA-1 hashed password
CRYPT - UNIX-style crypt password
CLEARTEXT - no protection.

Encoding: SHA
Domain restrictions: 
 
Just hit enter when asked for domain restrictions. That will create a
login id with manager permissions and no domain restrictions. Good
luck!

> Bravely executing the second command  ( ./start ) results in a 
> somehow running zope which of course I can not log in.
> Furthermore, ./start does not return.

./start directly executes the Zope command in the foreground, so
./start doesn't return until Zope is killed. Does anyone else know how 
to work around this?

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