[Zope] 2.6.0a1

Hannu Krosing hannu@tm.ee
07 Aug 2002 19:45:49 +0200


On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 18:38, Tom Deprez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just a tiny question, I'm trying to run Zope 2.6.0a1 on a Debian, but I
> always get the following error:
> 
> ./start:
> 
> "A user was not specified to setuid to; fix this to start as root"
> 
> Then when I do the following, ./start -u root; I get:
> 
> "/var/local/Zope-2.6.0a1/var does not have the sticky bit set; fix this
> to start as root."
> 
> At the moment I'm out of possible ideas, I tried several things
> including changing permissions etc, but I always end up with above
> errors.

Two Ideas:

1. set the sticky bit

2. run as someone else than root (recommended)

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Hannu