[Zope] Newbie question: Can't run on port 80

[Rafael Cordones Marcos]

On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:56:17PM -0500, David C. Morrill wrote:
> I've been running Zope 2.0.0b5 for a while on port 8080 under my own user id
> on my Linux box. However, I decided to try to run it on the standard port
> 80, but have not been having any luck. Here is what I did:
>   - added '-w 80' option when starting Zope (i.e. ZServer)
>   - 'chown nobody.nobody var'  (to make 'nobody' the owner of the 'var'
> directory)
>   - started Zope as su (superuser)
> 
> It almost works, but right at the end of the Z2.py file where it tries to
> open the 'Z2.pid' file for writing, it gets a 'permission denied'. I'm not
> really much of a Unix/Linux expert, so I'm not sure what else I need to do
> to get the permissions set up correctly (BTW, there is no 'Z2.pid' file
> already in 'var' when I attempt to start Zope. I rm'ed it manually since it
> was owned by my normal user id from previous Zope sessions). Can any Linux
> gurus spare me a clue? TIA
> 
I belive port 80 is for privileged processes, i.e. the process must
have root permission. I am no guru though ;)

Regards,

Rafa 

> Dave Morrill
> 
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