Ok then... run it as root but chown nobody the var dir before.
I did...in fact, here is what I have done so far (Petru, thanks for all your help by the way): ------------------------------------------------------------------------- After I downloaded the zope source from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.6/Zope-2.1.6-src.tgz/view I did an "untar" as my user account and then in the newly created Zope-2.1.6-src directory, I typed the following: "python w_pcgi.py" "sudo chown -R nobody var chown nobody access" "python zpasswd.py -u root -p apasswordhere access" "sudo cp /home/jessi/Data.fs var/" "sudo ./start" ------------------------------------------------------------------- I had to do some of these as "sudo"...otherwise I would get the beloved "permission denied" message. Thanks Again, Jessica