On Feb 4, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Andreas Jung wrote:
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Hi there,
I am not sure which component is in charge for the following issue:
- standard Plone 3.1 installation installed with paster/Zopeskel with a 'zope' account without special privileges - in the instance is started from through /etc/init.d as root but immediately setuid to effective-user 'zope'
- after setuid(), setuptools is trying to write to /root/.python-eggs during the startup-phase for (my own) module zopyx.textindexng3
- - it creates inside:
new:~/.python-eggs # ls -la total 1 drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 144 Feb 4 13:17 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 1200 Feb 4 17:10 .. - -rw-r--r-- 1 zope users 0 Feb 4 13:17 a drwxr-xr-x 3 zope users 72 Feb 4 13:17 zopyx.textindexng3-4.0.1-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg-tmp
Why is setuptools using /root/.python-eggs only for this particular module and isn't it using something like /home/zope/.python-eggs instead - especially having changed the UID already?
I'll answer the problem, not the question. (I don't think setuptools should ever write to a user's home directory, whatever the user.) The easiest way to solve this problem is to use unzipped eggs, which also import faster in my experience. Buildout now has a global option (unzip = true) that causes all eggs it installs to be unzipped. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation