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

[Chris McDonough]

That should read "has an improper mode bit setting".

Drugs.  They'll get you every time.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris McDonough [mailto:chrism@digicool.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 4:29 PM
> To: 'addyd@unk.edu'; zope@zope.org
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Newbie, trying to follow the installation HOWTO...
> 
> 
> 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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