[Zope] ZODB and packing problem

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Yann COMBARNOUS wrote:
> Well, I'm quite new to Zope, however this seems to be quite strange to
> me. When trying to pack the database, I get the following error (zope
> installed from source by root and run by root through start script):

   That is the point - when Zope is run under root, it automatically drops
to nobody, and nobody doesn't have permissions to your Data.fs.

> Error Type: IOError
> Error Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/usr/local/zope-2.1.6/var/Data.fs'

Oleg.            (All opinions are mine and not of my employer)
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