[Zope] (no subject)

[Chris McDonough]

Steffen,

It's advisable to unpack, compile, and start Zope as a non-root user
unless you really want Zope to start on port 80.  That said, you need to
pass the -u option and a username to the start script ala:

#./start -u zope

- C


On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:42, Bowen Steffan ap Geraint GT/IT wrote:
> Brian
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> I have downloaded, tar & installed zope twice now, following all
> instructions that I have found. On trying to start Zope I get a message
> "A user was not specified to setuid to fix this to start as root
> see/doc/setuid.txt"
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> I have looked at setuid.txt and cannot work out the syntax to enter any
> command after trying multiple many many times. I was su ed to root when
> I ran the install in /usr/local/dc as in the documentation.
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> I would be pleased to get some assistance
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> Thanks=20
> Steffan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:brian@zope.com]=20
> Sent: 31 October 2002 17:25
> To: Bowen Steffan ap Geraint GT/IT; zope@zope.org
> Subject: RE: [Zope] (no subject)
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> >> I have recently started a new job, and my first assignment is to
> >> upgrade currently dormant system which is in zope 1.10.2 (source=20
> >> release, python 1.5.1, linux2) to the latest version and I see=20
> >> that this week the latest became 2.6, I had never even heard of=20
> >> Zope before Tuesday, so I've been looking into it and found some=20
> >> documentation on installing and upgrading Zope 2.x and Upgrading=20
> >> to 2.2.0 (final release). Would this cover from 1.10.2 , or is=20
> >> there more help needed and if so where could I find the needed=20
> >> information.
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> >> Steffan G Bowen
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> Egad! 1.10.2? :^)
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> First, you'll need to convert your old object database to the=20
> ZODB 3 file storage format. From waaaayyyy back in HISTORY.txt:
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>           An option has been added to the bbb.py script in the
>           utilities directory to convert ZODB 2 database files to ZODB
>           3 format. The bbb.py script now accepts an '-f' option that
>           takes an argument specifying an output file name.  For
>           example, to convert the ZODB 2 data file, Data.bbb, in the
>           var directory, to ZODB 3 FileStorage format::
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>             python utilities/bbb.py -f var/Data.fs var/Data.bbb
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>           Note that version data are not converted.
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> Brian Lloyd        brian@zope.com
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