[Zope] My Installation Problem 2.7.3

[Jonathan Hobbs]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Uwe Wlaschny" <professorix at gmx.de>
> Im absolute zope beginner and tried to solve my probability Easy-Problem
by
> googling and looking in the forums, but it seems much confusing to me.
There
> are informations to use user nobody and sticky bits, but on the other site
I
> found informations such:
>
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/InstallingZope.s
tx/document_src
> Note: for Zope 2.7, none of this permission-sticky-bit-setting nonsense is
> necessary. Instead, just set the effective-user parameter to an existing
> (nonroot) username in the zope.conf file and start Zope as root. All files
> including log and pid files will be written as the lesser-privileged user.
>
> If I try to make an instance of Zope 2.7.3 with
> /opt/Zope-2.7/bin/mkzopeinstance.py I don't see an error (is there a
> logfile?) but if I start the Zope-instance I get the following error. Can
> someone help me? I use Python 2.3.4
>
> After completing mkzopeinstance there are no files in the VAR-directory.
Is
> this correct? When will the data.fs build?
>
> p15142999:/usr/local/myzope/bin # ./zopectl fg
> export EVENT_LOG_FILE
> EVENT_LOG_FILE=
> /usr/local/myzope/bin/runzope
> ------
> 2004-12-21T22:37:43 INFO(0) ZServer HTTP server started at Tue Dec 21
> 22:37:43 2004
>         Hostname: p15142999.pureserver.info
>         Port: 8080
> ------
> 2004-12-21T22:37:43 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Tue Dec 21
> 22:37:43 2004
>         Hostname: p15142999
>         Port: 8021
> ------
> 2004-12-21T22:37:43 INFO(0) Zope Set effective user to "uwc"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/run.py", line 50, in ?
>     run()
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/run.py", line 19, in run
>     start_zope(opts.configroot)
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/__init__.py", line 51, in
> start_zope
>     starter.startZope()
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/__init__.py", line 230, in
> startZope
>     Zope.startup()
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py", line 47, in startup
>     _startup()
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/App/startup.py", line 57, in startup
>     DB = configuration.dbtab.getDatabase('/', is_root=1)
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/DBTab/DBTab.py", line 96, in getDatabase
>     db = self._createDatabase(name, is_root)
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/DBTab/DBTab.py", line 113, in
> _createDatabase
>     db = factory.open()
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/datatypes.py", line 172, in
> open
>     DB = self.createDB()
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/Zope/Startup/datatypes.py", line 169, in
> createDB
>     return ZODBDatabase.open(self)
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/ZODB/config.py", line 97, in open
>     return ZODB.DB(section.storage.open(),
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/ZODB/config.py", line 128, in open
>     quota=self.config.quota)
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/ZODB/FileStorage.py", line 232, in
__init__
>     self._lock_file = LockFile(file_name + '.lock')
>   File "/opt/Zope-2.7/lib/python/ZODB/lock_file.py", line 60, in __init__
>     self._fp = open(path, 'w+')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/usr/local/myzope/var/Data.fs.lock'

It looks like zope does not have the necessary privileges to create/modify
files in the '/usr/local/myzope/var' directory.


Jonathan