The Solution: for RH7.2 Zope 2.5.1 Unzip Xron. Change ownership of all files to whatever user you run zope as. Change ownership of INSTANCE_HOME/var/Z2.pid to nobody Stop Zope Start Zope as user:nobody Stop Zope Change ownership of INSTANCE_HOME/var/Z2.pid to user you run zope as. Start it again as the user you run zope as. Creates the Schedule object normally not broken as in the previous cases. Solution kind of listed on : http://www.zope.org/Members/lstaffor/Xron/CHANGES.txt for version 0.08 (when upgrading) whereas I am using ver 0.10 ( a clean new install ) oh well..... Thanks for your help -AM -- ================================================================== Aseem Mohanty Neurobehavioral Systems Inc, 828 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA 94706 (R) 510 7696011 (M) 510 3014871 (O) 510 5279231 ================================================================== "I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped right there!!" -- Steve Gonedes ==================================================================