[Zope] newbie installation problem Zope-2.2.5 on ppc linux

[Richard Weltman]

thanks for the quick reply Doug

> How was the server started?

./start & 

in /usr/local/Zope-2.2.5-src

tried as root, and as a regular user with the same result

> Where did you get the error messages, from
> /usr/local/Zope-2.2.5-src/var/debug.log or from the console?

from the console

./start > stdout.txt 2> stderr.txt &

> The problem should be corrected by changing the permissions of the directory
> /usr/local/Zope-2.2.5-src/var and probably some of the files in it, so that
> 'nobody' can write there

thanks for the suggestions - plenty to go on !
 
> although there may be more secure ways to do the
> same thing

like making a user 'zope' etc ?

best regards
cheers
Richard