[Zope] Password problem.

Michel Pelletier michel@digicool.com
Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:01:42 -0800


Eddie Maddox wrote:
> 
> Just starting to learn Zope.
> Running Mandrake 6.1 on AMD K6.
> 
> Grabbed Zope 2.1.4 i386 .tgz.
> Unpacked in /usr/share/zope-2.1.4 .
> 
> ./install -u Super_Manager_username --> ok, except, thanks to Zope List
> archives, figured out I had to chown nobody. .../var and rerun ./install,
> otherwise it aborted trying to write the Z2.pid file. (Some one should
> report that as a bug, that ./install gets the .../var ownership wrong.)


-u is for the unix user you want Zope to run as, not to set the Zope
superuser username.  This probably explains the rest of your problems
being due to permissions.

-Michel