hello i posted a similar message yesterday and i didn't get any responses. i'm new to zope and i'm trying to get 2.5.0 running on my box. i installed zope as root (which i'm now thinking was a mistake) and i got an exception when i ran the startup script. someone on this list suggested that i try running zope as another user. so, i created a user called *zope* and granted ownership of the zope directories to this user. i then ran the zope startup script as *zope*. i now get a permission denied message when the startup script runs. the output is below: [zope@grumpy Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86]$ ./start ./start: /usr/local/zope/Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86/bin/python: Permission denied ./start: exec: /usr/local/zope/Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86/bin/python: cannot execute: Permission denied [zope@grumpy Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86]$ pwd /usr/local/zope/Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86 [zope@grumpy Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86]$ cd bin [zope@grumpy bin]$ ls -l total 1424 -rwxrwxrwx 1 zope users 1453722 Jan 25 13:47 python [zope@grumpy bin]$ the file *python* is owned by the zope user who has full access to the file. yet, i'm getting a *permission denied* error when the startup script attempts to execute this file. any ideas on how to resolve this issue? should i uninstall zope and reinstall it as the zope user? tia