[Zope] My Installation Problem 2.7.3

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 21.Dec 2004 - 23:01:49, Uwe Wlaschny wrote:
> Im absolute zope beginner and tried to solve my probability Easy-Problem by
> googling and looking in the forums, but it seems much confusing to me. There
> are informations to use user nobody and sticky bits, but on the other site I
> found informations such:
> http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/InstallingZope.stx/document_src

The information in the ZopeBook is correct, so stick to it. If you did
any of the sticky bit Changes revert them...

Also there is a README in the Source of Zope.

> If I try to make an instance of Zope 2.7.3 with
> /opt/Zope-2.7/bin/mkzopeinstance.py I don't see an error (is there a
> logfile?) but if I start the Zope-instance I get the following error. Can
> someone help me? I use Python 2.3.4  
> 
> After completing mkzopeinstance there are no files in the VAR-directory. Is
> this correct? When will the data.fs build?
> 
> p15142999:/usr/local/myzope/bin # ./zopectl fg

Zope is to be started with runzope, not zopectl.

> 2004-12-21T22:37:43 INFO(0) Zope Set effective user to "uwc"
>     self._fp = open(path, 'w+')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/myzope/var/Data.fs.lock'

Does uwc have the necessary rights in /usr/local/myzope/var ? Did you
execute mkzopeinstance as uwc?

Andreas

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