[Zope] Newbie, trying to follow the installation HOWTO...

[Chris McDonough]

If you don't have permission to ungzip the file, probably has an mode
bit setting or is owned by a different user.

su to root
chmod 777 Yourfile.tgz
exit
gunzip Yourfile.tgz

That should do it.

Chris McDonough     mailto:chrism@digicool.com
Digital Creations   http://www.digicool.com
Publishers of Zope  http://www.zope.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: addyd@unk.edu [mailto:addyd@unk.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 3:55 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Newbie, trying to follow the installation HOWTO...
> 
> 
> As a linux newbie, I like the ease with which I can install and delete
> packages with Redhat Package Manager (on a machine for which 
> I have root
> privilege). The installation/Upgrade HOWTO is (explicitly) not for RPM
> installation. The HOWTO discusses some security features that 
> I would like
> to impliment (like "installing as a User", "starting as 
> Root", and "running
> as Nobody"). I'd like to follow those suggestions, but have to use the
> Zope-2.1.2.ppc.rpm that I created from a src.rpm .
> 
> Problem is... you must install and delete RPMs as root, so I 
> can't take the
> good security advise above. So, I've decided to try dumping 
> the rpms and
> installing from src (no LinuxPPC binary that I can find). If 
> anyone has a
> suggestion for using the rpm and achieving the goals of the 
> HOWTO, I'm open
> to suggestions.
> 
> Trying to follow the suggestions in the HOWTO, I have 
> followed them to the
> letter (installing as a user) but have Permission Denied when 
> I even try to
> gunzip the .tgz source file. Assuming I have a permission 
> problem here. I
> have the directories set up exactly as shown in the HOWTO:
> owner       group
> nobody      myusername
> 
> I have done an su to my username from root before attempting 
> the gunzip.
> Does "nobody" have to belong to group "myusername"? I looked 
> at /etc/group
> with vigr, but nowhere can I find a file telling me what the lines in
> /etc/group mean (how to edit them). At this point, I don't 
> even know if it
> is necessary.
> 
> I know this has to be kindergarten stuff here, but I've never 
> worked with
> anything where the owner was different from the group (though 
> after reading
> the HOWTO I can see how it would be useful). If anyone can 
> remember what it
> was like to be this ignorant... please take pity on me. :>)
> 
> Darren Addy
> University of Nebraska at Kearney
> 
> 
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