[Zope] Starting zope instance problems

[John E. Barham]

Fernando Martins wrote:

> I've installed Python 2.3.4 in a Suse 8.2 system and then installed zope
> 2.7.1 and configured an instance. I did all of this logged in as root and
> I've chowned the instance folder to a normal user.
>
> When I tried starting this instance as the normal user, I got the first
> error:
>
> read permission missing for
> /opt/zope2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/zopeschema.xml
>
> I fixed this permission and of another file, then decided to start the
> instance as root and seting up as effective user, the normal user.
>
> I got then into lots of errors regarding reading permissions (one file at
a
> time). I gave up and recursively gave o+r permissions to the whole
> installation.
>
> Finally, I got it running, but all of this smells very wrong and indeed I
> want to run instances as normal user.
>
> What am I doing wrong??

I encountered the same problem.  See my earlier post:
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2004-June/151545.html

You aren't doing anything wrong.  The file permissions for Zope 2.7.1 are
broken since many of the files necessary to start up Zope are only owner
readable.

    John