[Zope] newbie install problems

[Jens Vagelpohl]

another FAQ. if you start zope as root it will switch to the nobody user. 
so var and the files in there must be writable for nobody.

a good source for this kind of information are the mailing list archives::

http://www.zope.org/Resources/MailingLists

jens


On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 12:33 , Maring, Steve wrote:

> Roger that.  Successfully compiled Zope 2.5.1 with Python 2.1.3.  When
> trying to run the "start" script, however, it complains of permission
> problems on the var directory:
>
> 2002-06-05T16:28:39 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File /home/smaring/zope/Zope-2.5.1-src/z2.py, line 690, in ?
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/home/smaring/zope/Zope-2.5.1-src/var/Z2.pid'
>
> And rightly so considering the permissions:
> drwxrwxr-x    2 1000     users        4096 Jun  5 12:28 var/
>
> I added root to the users group in /etc/group, since I was trying to run 
> the
> start script as root, but that didn't help.  It must be trying to run as 
> a
> different user.  Anybody know what is going here?  Or where I can find the
> "FAQ"?
>
> Thanks.
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jens Vagelpohl [mailto:jens@zope.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 11:47 AM
> To: Maring, Steve
> Cc: 'zope@zope.org'
> Subject: Re: [Zope] newbie install problems
>
>
> this is a FAQ: you must use python 2.1 with zope 2.5.1. python 2.2 is not
> officially spported. as far as i know this is clearly mentioned in the
> docs that come with the source distribution.
>
> jens
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 11:41 , Maring, Steve wrote:
>
>> I'm venturing away from my J2EE cave for a bit to explore Python and 
>> Zope.
>>
>> I've compiled and installed Python 2.2.1 on my Linux box.  I'm trying to
>> compile Zope 2.5.1.  I get the following error:
>>
>> [root@hebe Zope-2.5.1-src]# python wo_pcgi.py
>>
>>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> --
>> Deleting '.pyc' and '.pyo' files recursively under
>> /home/smaring/zope/Zope-2.5.1-src...
>> Done.
>>
>>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> --
>> Compiling python modules
>>
>>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> --
>> Building extension modules
>> cp ./lib/python/Setup20 ./lib/python/Setup
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> Compiling extensions in lib/python
>> cp /usr/local/lib/python2.2/config/Makefile.pre.in .
>> cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/lib/python2.2/config/Makefile.pre.in': No 
>> such
>> file or directory
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "wo_pcgi.py", line 45, in ?
>>   File "wo_pcgi.py", line 33, in main
>>   File "/home/smaring/zope/Zope-2.5.1-src/inst/build_extensions.py", line
>> 30, in ?
>>     make('lib','python')
>>   File "/home/smaring/zope/Zope-2.5.1-src/inst/do.py", line 61, in make
>>     do("cp %s ." % wheres_Makefile_pre_in())
>>   File "/home/smaring/zope/Zope-2.5.1-src/inst/do.py", line 32, in do
>>     if i and picky: raise SystemError, i
>> SystemError: 256
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this "Makefile.pre.in" something that used to be in this directory on
>> older versions of Python?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Steve Maring
>> Tarpon Springs, FL  USA
>>
>>
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