[Zope] Installation bug?

[Phil Harris]

It's in the docs already, nobody must have write permissions in the var
directory.


----- Original Message -----
From: Svante Kleist <svante+zope@nemesis.se>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 1:12 PM
Subject: [Zope] Installation bug?


>
> Dear Zopers (Zops? Zopians?),
>
> This is my first try with Zope. Building on RH Linux 6.0
> ( python w_pcgi.py ) went fine, however...
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> ----------
> [root@nyx Zope-2.0.0b5-src]# ./start
> ------
> 1999-08-20T11:42:05 PROBLEM(100) ZServer Computing default hostname
> ------
> 1999-08-20T11:42:05 INFO(0) ZServer Medusa (V1.10) started at Fri Aug 20
> 13:42:05 1999
>         Hostname: nyx.nemesis.se
>         Port:8080
>
> ------
> 1999-08-20T11:42:05 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Fri Aug 20
> 13:42:05 1999
>         Authorizer:None
>         Hostname: nyx.nemesis.se
>         Port: 8021
> ------
> 1999-08-20T11:42:05 INFO(0) ZServer Monitor Server (V1.5) started on port
> 8099
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/local/src/Zope-2.0.0b5-src/z2.py", line 494, in ?
>     pf = open(PID_FILE, 'w')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/usr/local/src/Zope-2.0.0b5-src/var/Z2.pid'
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> --------
>
> This was obviously because 'nobody' could write in
> '/usr/local/src/Zope-2.0.0b5-src/var/'.
>
> 'chmod go+w /usr/local/src/Zope-2.0.0b5-src/var/' solved that.
>
> Is this an installation bug? Should I report it somewhere?
>
>
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