[Zope] Re: zopectl debug, 2.8.0 local zeo, Data.fs.lock file locking error

Chris McDonough chrism at plope.com
Mon Jul 4 21:49:17 EDT 2005


If you dont think it's file permissions, one thing this could also be...
is your data.fs on an NFS partition?  flock doesn't work well on NFS.

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 21:38 +0000, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
> Chris McDonough wrote:
> > File permissions.  The user who is the effective user does not have
> > permission to overwrite the Data.fs.lock file.
> >
> >> effective-user zope
> >> # /var/lib/zope/zope-2.8.0/var $ ls -al
> >> drwxr-xr-x  3 zope zope     336 Jul  4 14:59 .
> >> drwxr-xr-x  9 root root     280 Jun 25 03:08 ..
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 zope zope 4849715 Jul  4 14:59 Data.fs
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 zope zope   55987 Jul  3 18:05 Data.fs.index
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 zope zope       6 Jul  4 14:59 Data.fs.lock
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 zope zope 4874585 Jul  3 18:04 Data.fs.old
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 zope zope  154247 Jul  4 14:59 Data.fs.tmp
> >> -rw-rw-r--  1 zope zope     299 Jun 25 03:08 README.txt
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 zope zope       5 Jul  4 14:59 Z2.lock
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 zope zope       5 Jul  4 14:59 Z2.pid
> >> drwxr-xr-x  2 zope zope   14648 Jul  4 14:08 pts
> >> srwx------  1 root root       0 Jul  4 14:59 zopectlsock
> 
> I get a little fuzzy on when the changeover from user root to user zope
> happens, but this is the confusing point, and why I originally excerpted
> the directory listing: doesn't (effective) user zope already have
> read-write on the Data.fs.lock file?
> 
> Should I add user root to group zope, or would that defeat the security
> purpose of the effective-user? Or can you recommend the correct chmod
> setting for this setup, I don't want to 755 the thing into wide-open
> access without knowing what I'm doing. Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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