Mike Orr wrote: > I'm trying to install a program that uses Durus on a server. It > appears that if a Python program uses eggs, it creates a > ~/.python-eggs/ directory, so the home directory must be writeable. > This conflicts with server environments where you want to run a daemon > with minimum privileges. Second, it appears to use the real user ID > rather than the effective user ID to choose the home directory. In > this case I'm trying to use start-stop-daemon on Linux to start my > Python program, switching from user 'root' to user 'apache'.
I solved the immediate problem by reinstalling Durus as a directory egg rather than a compressed egg. So is the answer just not to use compressed eggs? --Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list