[Zope] Linux Startup problem

[J Cameron Cooper]

>...
>StorageSystemError: Could not lock the database file.  There must be
>another process that has opened the file.
><p>
>
>But there is definitely no process that has access to a ZOPE file!
>Has anyone a solution? Please. I'm not a Linux geek - do I have to set some
>special rights or something to the /var directory??? Just a guess...
>  
>
The user Zope runs as must be able to write to the zope/var directory.

Usually this is set properly on installation. It's probable that

cd zope                           # where 'zope' is the directory where 
the Zope install lives
chown -R zope var         # where 'zope' is the user zope runs as
chmod u+w var

will fix things, but you could slip us the output of

ls -l var

for better advice.

             --jcc

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