Well, we decided to move into FreeBSD from Slackware recently and am quite happy with it. I read evyones suggestions on building Zope on FreeBSD and then dived in. Happily I made it work, here's the lowdown for those interested. I tried several things, some worked some didn't. This worked perfectly for me twice. FreeBSD v 3.0 release 0, Walnut Creek dist. Zope 1.10.2 source ZServer 1.0a2 Python 1.5.2 release source. This was into a standard dist install of FreeBSD with no X, a bare server type install. The only extras I installed were Bind, Sendmail, and Expect. *****begin untar the python dist cd into Python-1.5.2/Modules copy Setup.in to Setup edit Setup uncommenting the line #*shared* cd up to the top of the Python distribution directory run ./configure --with-thread ignore errors untar the Zope dist into /usr/local edit do.py change the line do('make') to read do('make -k') run python wo_pcgi.py Zope should now start normally with the included start file. *******end (No, I didn't try w_pcgi.py, don't have Apache..) I use ZServer and it worked as advertised with the normal "ZOPE_HOME" change to the start.py script. Cool....... DAve.