when I was cataloging my zope site and was editing i did get a conflict 'competing' writes, which reminded me: how many times does ZOPE try to write to the ZODB and then 'fails' and roll's back - is it 3? assuming this size is configurable where would I go and change this? when i was cataloging i got this: 2000-03:20T03:24:27 ERROR(200) ZODB Couldn't load state for '\000\000\000\000\000\000\350\217' <- this happens right before the competing writes. could someone explain what this \xxx\yyy\zzz is? and how do I redirect ZServer's console to a file? I'm in DOS right now (havent done this in awhile) - and tried to "C:\Program Files\WebSite\bin\python.exe" "C:\Program Files\WebSite\z2.py" -D %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 > C:\temp\zope.log that didnt work.. In linux I've tried redirectings stderr and stdout to a file and i believe it still wouldnt didnt work. thanks, ~alan