[Zope] Zope on Mac OS X -- startup exception

[Chris Africa]

Ahhh, I get it--it turns out it was just an access problem (cafrica couldn'=
t
read/write to the Zope folder).

It is now running.

Thanks!

Chris



On 12/4/01 11:12 AM, "Jochen H=E4berle" <joh-zope@midras.de> wrote:

> Chris,
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> how's it that you " installed as cafrica and logged in to my machine as
> cafrica, but the
> passwords are different."???
> With unix, user privileges are basically rendered by the user- and
> group-id, that's numbers... so if you had a user carfica, deleted that
> and made a new cafrica, they will not be the same...
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> If you just changed the password for cafrica, that's no problem. Mhmm, I
> am running Zope fine on OS X.1... does have cafrica admin-rights?
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> You should check what user and group may read/write to your
> /Applications/Zope/var/Z2.pid
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> Regards
> Jochen
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> Am Dienstag den, 4. Dezember 2001, um 16:55, schrieb Chris Africa:
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>> I just installed Zope 2.4.3 (python 2.1) on Macintosh OS X Server
>> (10.1.1).
>> The install went okay, but I can't start up the server. The error log
>> shows
>> this error:
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>> 2001-12-03T15:38:11 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception
>> Traceback (innermost last):
>>   File z2s.py, line 861, in ?
>> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Applications/Zope/var/Z2.pid'
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>> ------
>> 2001-12-03T15:38:11 PROBLEM(100) zdaemon zdaemon: Mon Dec  3 10:38:11
>> 2001:
>> The kid, 25215, died on me.
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>> Another Zope user gave me this piece of advice: "The problem looks like
>> you
>> installed the package as a different user to the one you're trying to
>> run it
>> as."
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>> I installed as cafrica and logged in to my machine as cafrica, but the
>> passwords are different. Could that be the problem? If so, how do I fix
>> it?
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>> --
>> Chris Africa
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