>> 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?
If the .egg file contains binary modules, those must be unpacked out of the .egg (a Zip file actually) so that the kernel/lib-loader can map them. If your .egg package doesn't have any binary modules, then it doesn't need to unpack anything. -- damjan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
