Has anybody seen this before? I seriously doubt my maxusers setting is the problem -- this usually indicates an infinate openfile loop. Anyway, the short of it is that Zope isn't starting. I'm using FreeBSD 3.4 and Python 1.5.2. Thanks! John bash-2.03# ./start Mar 27 10:08:06 larryboy syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: Too many open files in system Mar 27 10:08:06 larryboy syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: Too many open files in system Mar 27 10:08:06 larryboy /kernel: file: table is full Mar 27 10:08:06 larryboy /kernel: file: table is full ------ 2000-03-27T17:08:09 PROBLEM(100) ZServer Computing default hostname ------ 2000-03-27T17:08:09 INFO(0) ZServer Medusa (V1.13.4.1) started at Mon Mar 27 10:08:09 2000 Hostname: larryboy.cproject.com Port:8080 ------ 2000-03-27T17:08:09 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Mon Mar 27 10:08:09 2000 Authorizer:None Hostname: larryboy.cproject.com Port: 8021 ------ 2000-03-27T17:08:09 INFO(0) ZServer PCGI Server started at Mon Mar 27 10:08:09 2000 Unix socket: /usr/local/Zope-2.1.6-src/var/pcgi.soc ------ 2000-03-27T17:08:09 INFO(0) ZServer Monitor Server (V1.5) started on port 8099 Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/local/Zope-2.1.6-src/z2.py", line 586, in ? pf = open(PID_FILE, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/Zope-2.1.6-src/var/Z2.pid'