[Zope] installing and running zope problem (r.h. linux 7.2)

[seb bacon]

Keep it on the list!

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 17:12, Duane Douglas wrote:
> At 05:02 PM 3/1/2002 +0000, seb bacon wrote:
> >Not quite sure how you've got into that situation.  To run Zope as a
> >user 'zope' you can still *start* it as root.  As root, try:
> >
> >./start -u zope
> 
> now i'm getting the startup exception again.  the output is below:
>

<snip>

> 2002-03-01T17:20:31 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception
> Traceback (innermost last):
>    File /usr/local/zope/Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86/z2.py, line 688, in ?
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
> '/usr/local/zope/Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86/var/Z2.pid'

So, the user 'zope' does not have write access to the var directory and
therefore cannot create the Z2.pid file.

seb