[Zope] Re: Zope broken - can't restart

[Kirk Lowery]

Dennis Godfrey wrote:

> Any clues? Am I not starting it correctly? (I have always used the
> Control Panel up until today.)

I run zope/cmf/plone on a debian sarge box, too. And I had this very
same problem: run either zopectrl or the /etc/init.d/zope start and then
it died.

To diagnose the problem, add "Debug: yes" in the
/etc/zopectrl/zopectrlrc, then start the server. That gave me the
diagnostics I needed.

The problem in my case was that /var/lib/zope/instance/default/var needs
to be user root and group zope, with the sticky bit set.

drwxr-xr-t    2 root     zope          232 2003-12-04 07:55 var

 From /usr/share/doc/zope/SETUID.txt:

   You must also make sure the var directory is owned by root, and that
   it has the sticky bit set.  This is done by the command 'chmod o+t
   var' on most systems.  When the sticky bit is set on a directory,
   anyone can write files, but nobody can delete others' files in order
   to rewrite them.  This is necessary to keep others from overwriting
   the PID file, tricking root into killing processes when 'stop' is run.

Once I changed the owner of var, and restarted zope, the server came
right up.

HTH.

Kirk