[Zope] 2.6.0a1

[Tom Deprez]

Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 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:

Thanks.

> 1. set the sticky bit

Uhm, how do I do that?

> 2. run as someone else than root (recommended)

Tried it as running nobody and www-data, but it always gives me the
first error "A user was not specified..."

Thanks,
Tom
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> Hannu