Hey, after four years, I've finally found the time to go back & look at Zope again. Unfortunately, after installing the RPM (zope-2.7.2-0.1.2.el4.rf, I ran: [root@midir tmp]# zopectl adduser the_power password Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py", line 51, in app startup() File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py", line 47, in startup _startup() File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/App/startup.py", line 57, in startup DB = configuration.dbtab.getDatabase('/', is_root=1) File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/DBTab/DBTab.py", line 96, in getDatabase db = self._createDatabase(name, is_root) File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/DBTab/DBTab.py", line 113, in _createDatabase db = factory.open() File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/Startup/datatypes.py", line 172, in open DB = self.createDB() File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/Startup/datatypes.py", line 169, in createDB return ZODBDatabase.open(self) File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZODB/config.py", line 97, in open return ZODB.DB(section.storage.open(), File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZODB/config.py", line 128, in open quota=self.config.quota) File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZODB/FileStorage.py", line 232, in __init__ self._lock_file = LockFile(file_name + '.lock') File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZODB/lock_file.py", line 64, in __init__ lock_file(self._fp) File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZODB/lock_file.py", line 44, in lock_file fcntl.flock(file.fileno(), _flags) IOError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable Anyone know what's going on ? Is it trying to read a file called '<string>' ? john