Thanks everyone for all your help - I'm happy to report the patient is now up
and about!!

The issue was the owner of the directories - root was the owner. I changed
the owner to myself and Voila.
Now I don't know why the owner was set to root but it looks like it is based
on the mybuildout directory which 
if I keep it under my ownership, all should be fine on the next buildout.

Very exciting.

Thanks


Steve McMahon wrote:
> 
> My only problem with Maurit's technique is that it leaves the daemon able
> to
> write into its own code space.
> 
> Instead, I'd make sure that all the .pyc files have been generated, then
> change the owner of everything but ./var (and ./logs if it's separate) to
> some identity other than the daemon operator.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Maurits van Rees <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> afewtips.com, on 2008-08-19:
>> >
>> > I am doing my first buildout and everything works perfectly until...
>> >
>> >  sudo ./bin/instance fg
>> > I have changed the effective user, the user name... all the same. Do I
>> need
>> > to create a zope user or can I run the instance under my login (which
>> is
>> > admin rights)?
>>
>> The user running zope should not have too much rights.  That at least
>> means he should not be root.  You can debate which unix groups the
>> user is allowed to be in.
>>
>> The only reason I know for starting the instance as root with the
>> effective user set, is if you want your zope instance available at a
>> port number below 1024 (that range is reserved for root).  But you
>> have port 8080 so that is not necessary.
>>
>> In all buildouts I have used so far:
>> - I have created the buildout as normal user.
>> - I have not set effective user.
>> - I have started the instance as normal user.
>> - I have not used sudo or su for starting the instance.
>>
>> --
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