[Zope] Problems starting ZEO with zeoctl

[Jonathan]

Please keep all your posts on the list (that way others can help, and others 
can find these messages for their reference)...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben" <shadroth at gmail.com>
To: "Jonathan" <dev101 at magma.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Problems starting ZEO with zeoctl


> On 9/2/06, Jonathan <dev101 at magma.ca> wrote:
>> What port is zeo configured to use and what 'user' are you running as 
>> when
>> you run zeoctl?
>
> ZEO is configured to use port 8100 (the default, I believe).
> I run 'zeoctl start' as user 'zope' unsucessfully, but I can run
> 'runzeo' as user 'zope' without any hassles.
>
> I'm not sure what permissions are involved, but it occurred to me that
> Red Hat's user private group system might be what's messing things up
> for me (and why it works for users of other distros), but I don't know
> enough about Zope or ZEO to check if this is the case.

As an experiment, can you try running zeoctl as the root user?  If this 
works, then it is definitely a problem with the permissions that your 'zope' 
user has  (the error you described is normally a permissions related error).


Jonathan