Hi Smita
running Zope (or a generally a server) as "root" is newer a good idea (for
several reasons; one of them: security). Zope probably avoid this problem by
producing the error message that you posted (I just tested it, and I also got
the same message).
Create a news user, let say: "zope" with group "zope", change the ownerships as
follow:
chown -R zope:zope /opt/zope
and change the effective-user to zope and try again!!
Cheers,
Michele
On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:32 , smita kamdar wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> To make the permissions, owner & group of all the installables same, I
> changed the permissions to 777 & owner & group to root for all the
> installables.
>
>
> Now I am able to get the output of the following commands -
>
> [r...@test bin]# ls -l /home/postgres/7.4.13/lib/libpq.so.3
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 12 2010-11-09 23:59
> /home/postgres/7.4.13/lib/libpq.so.3 -> libpq.so.3.1
>
>
> [r...@test bin]# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/postgres/7.4.13/lib
>
> [r...@test bin]# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> /home/postgres/7.4.13/lib
>
>
> [r...@test bin]# ldd
> /home/test/Python/2.4.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/psycopgmodule.so | grep
> libpq.so
>
> libpq.so.3 => /home/postgres/7.4.13/lib/libpq.so.3 (0x005b1000)
>
>
> But when I start the zope as root user, I face the following error -
>
>
> [r...@test bin]# ./zopectl fg
>
> /opt/zope/bin/runzope -X debug-mode=on
>
> 2010-11-19 21:10:21 INFO ZServer HTTP server started at Fri Nov 19 21:10:21
> 2010
>
> Hostname: 0.0.0.0
>
> Port: 8080
>
> 2010-11-19 21:10:21 CRITICAL Zope A user was not specified to setuid to; fix
> this to start as root (change the effective-user directive in zope.conf)
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File "/opt/zope/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 56, in ?
>
> run()
>
> File "/opt/zope/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 21, in run
>
> starter.prepare()
>
> File "/opt/zope/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 105, in prepare
>
> self.dropPrivileges()
>
> File "/opt/zope/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 256, in
> dropPrivileges
>
> return dropPrivileges(self.cfg)
>
> File "/opt/zope/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 425, in
> dropPrivileges
>
> raise ZConfig.ConfigurationError(msg)
>
> ZConfig.ConfigurationError: A user was not specified to setuid to; fix this
> to start as root (change the effective-user directive in zope.conf)
>
>
>
> The effective user part in /etc/zope.conf file looks as shown below -
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> # Directive: effective-user
>
> #
>
> # Description:
>
> # If you intend to run Zope as the "root" user, you must supply this
>
> # directive with an effective username or userid number to which Zope
>
> # will 'suid' after the server ports are bound. This directive only
>
> # has effect under UNIX and if Zope is started as the root user.
>
> #
>
> # Default: unset
>
> #
>
> # Example:
>
> #
>
> # effective-user chrism
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> As, they have said to change the effective-user directive in zope.conf, I
> changed the effective user part in the file as shown below –
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> # Directive: effective-user
>
> #
>
> # Description:
>
> # If you intend to run Zope as the "root" user, you must supply this
>
> # directive with an effective username or userid number to which Zope
>
> # will 'suid' after the server ports are bound. This directive only
>
> # has effect under UNIX and if Zope is started as the root user.
>
> #
>
> # Default: unset
>
> #
>
> # Example:
>
> #
>
> effective-user root
>
>
>
> After changing the above file, When I started zope as root, it is showing the
> below error –
>
>
> [r...@test bin]# ./zopectl fg
>
> /opt/zope/bin/runzope -X debug-mode=on
>
> 2010-11-19 21:19:47 INFO ZServer HTTP server started at Fri Nov 19 21:19:47
> 2010
>
> Hostname: 0.0.0.0
>
> Port: 8080
>
> 2010-11-19 21:19:47 ERROR Zope Cannot start Zope with the effective user as
> the root user
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File "/opt/zope/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 56, in?
>
> run()
>
> File "/opt/zope/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 21, in run
>
> starter.prepare()
>
> File "/opt/zope/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 105, in prepare
>
> self.dropPrivileges()
>
> File "/opt/zope/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 256, in
> dropPrivileges
>
> return dropPrivileges(self.cfg)
>
> File "/opt/zope/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 449, in
> dropPrivileges
>
> raise ZConfig.ConfigurationError(msg)
>
> ZConfig.ConfigurationError: Cannot start Zope with the effective user as the
> root user
>
>
>
> Have I made any mistake in changing the effective user part in zope.conf ?
>
>
> Do you think I have done right? Or is this some other error?
>
>
> Also find attached the two files in which it is showing errors.
>
>
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