[Zope] Starting zope instance problems

[robert rottermann]

As I said in a former post, do not install Zope as root. No need to.

Robert

John E. Barham wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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