The symptom is as follows: ------ 1999-12-23T19:41:32 INFO(0) ZServer PCGI Server started at Thu Dec 23 11:41:32 1999 Unix socket: /root/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86/var/pcgi.soc ------ 1999-12-23T19:41:32 INFO(0) ZServer Monitor Server (V1.5) started on port 8099 Traceback (innermost last): File "/root/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86/z2.py", line 574, in ? pf = open(PID_FILE, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/root/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86/var/Z2.pid' devil:~/shop/Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86# the latter indicated directory being in /root for the root user. As this is apparently supposed to work 'out of the box', I thought it would be worth emailing you first. My system is a Debian slink, and cksum gets the following: 1156543682 2384334 Zope-2.1.1-linux2-x86.tgz Please advise. Thank you. Sincerely, Xeno