Many apologies for posting a very newbie-ish question but I'm keen to get started with Zope on my Mac. I've compiled python 2.1.2 successfully, following the instructions in the zope.org site. I've run the wo_pcgi.py script and compiled Zope-2.5.0 into /usr/local/Zope-2.5.0. However, when I run sudo ./start, I get the following message: <stdout> ------ 2002-03-07T20:36:14 INFO(0) ZODB Opening database for mounting: '16517888_1015533374.122884' ------ 2002-03-07T20:36:14 INFO(0) ZODB Mounted database '16517888_1015533374.122884' at /temp_folder ------ 2002-03-07T20:36:40 INFO(0) Zope New disk product detected, determining if we need to fix up any ZClasses. ------ 2002-03-07T20:36:40 INFO(0) ZServer HTTP server started at Thu Mar 7 20:36:40 2002 Hostname: localhost Port: 8080 ------ 2002-03-07T20:36:40 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Thu Mar 7 20:36:40 2002 Hostname: localhost Port: 8021 ------ 2002-03-07T20:36:40 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.0/z2.py, line 688, in ? IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/Zope-2.5.0/var/Z2.pid' </stdout> I know enough to understand that there seems to be an ownership question here but what I haven't been able to work out is how I ought to change ownership. Do I need to create a special user to run zope, or what? I'm sure that the answer is staring me in the face but I thought that I would ask the community, whilst apologising for what might be a rather trivial enquiry. Many thanks James -- Dr J Webster work: jgw@wincoll.ac.uk pleasure: james@xargla.org