Greetings! I recently installed a new zope 2.7 rpm on redhat. Everything went smooth and zope is running great. I have some external methods that do various tasks throughout the filesystem. In this case, the files are in a particular mysql directory. I have created a group for zope and mysql called "www" and changed ownership of this directory to that group. I can read and write to this directory as the zope user. My external methods fail with invalid permissions. I have verified that the setuid is zope, but I am not positive that zope is actually running under the zope user. How can I set/verify that this is the case? On all of my previous zope installs, I would log in as zope, and do ./start it appears that this convention has changed. Any clues? Thanks in advance! -ed -- EMAIL ed@greengraphics.net VOICE 510.923.0000 FAX 510.923.0001 AIM esc3d