[Zope] 2.6.0a1

Hannu Krosing hannu@tm.ee
08 Aug 2002 02:17:49 +0500


On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 21:46, Tom Deprez wrote:
> 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?

should be

    chmod g+s dirname

this forces the files created in that dir by anybody to have the same
group as the dir, subdirs inkerit the bit.

--------------
Hannu