[Zope] zope startup script is failing (2.5.0 on rh linux 7.2)

[Matthew T. Kromer]

It means the Zope process does not have permission to write to the var 
directory (under the Zope home).

Don't run Zope as root; set up a different Zope userid to run the 
software and have the software and data homes owned by the Zope userid.


On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 10:49 AM, Duane Douglas wrote:

> hello,
>
> i'm new to zope, so please bear with me.
>
> i'm trying to get zope 2.5.0 running on linux 7.2.   i untarred the 
> zope tarball in /usr/local and the install script ran without reporting 
> any errors.  the start script reported an exception when it ran.  the 
> output is below:
>
> [root@grumpy Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86]# ./start
> ------
> 2002-02-28T15:54:03 INFO(0) ZODB Opening database for mounting: 
> '142152360_1014906621.913913'
> ------
> 2002-02-28T15:54:03 INFO(0) ZODB Mounted database 
> '142152360_1014906621.913913' at /temp_folder
> ------
> 2002-02-28T15:54:03 INFO(0) ZServer HTTP server started at Thu Feb 28 
> 10:54:03 2002
>         Hostname: grumpy.dog-media.com
>         Port: 8080
> ------
> 2002-02-28T15:54:03 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Thu Feb 28 
> 10:54:03 2002
>         Hostname: grumpy.dog-media.com
>         Port: 8021
> ------
> 2002-02-28T15:54:03 INFO(0) ZServer PCGI Server started at Thu Feb 28 
> 10:54:03 2002
>         Unix socket: /usr/local/zope/Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86/var/pcgi.soc
> ------
> 2002-02-28T15:54:03 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File /usr/local/zope/Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86/z2.py, line 688, in ?
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
> '/usr/local/zope/Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86/var/Z2.pid'
>
>
> [root@grumpy Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86]#
>
> can someone please help me troubleshoot this?
>
> tia
>
>
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