[Zope] Newbie: running Zope for the first time - Linux

[Dylan Reinhardt]

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 21:24, Alberto Odor wrote:
> 4) z2 STARTUP EXEPTION: file /usr/local/Zope/z2.py line 84 - a user was not
> specified to set uid to; fix this to start as root

There's your problem. 

Unless you want to run Zope as root (you don't) you'll need to specify a
user to run Zope as.  I'd suggest making a username called zope, but you
can also run as nobody if this isn't a highly secured production
server.  

To specify a user, pass -u USERNAME to z2.py in your start script.

HTH,

Dylan