Hello all, after solving my problem with siteroot (thanks to Evan Simpson!), I just encountered something very strange: I login with my FTP-client and after uploading a couple of gif files to port 8021, I get the following in the Z2.log: =============================================== 2000-09-19T13:41:20 INFO(0) ZServer Successful login. ------ 2000-09-19T13:41:29 INFO(0) ZServer Incoming connection from 212.9.128.5:61462 ------ 2000-09-19T13:41:29 INFO(0) ZServer Incoming connection from 212.9.128.5:61463 ------ 2000-09-19T13:41:29 INFO(0) ZServer Successful login. ------ 2000-09-19T13:41:29 INFO(0) ZServer Successful login. ------ 2000-09-19T13:41:29 INFO(0) Z2 CONFLICT Competing writes at, /em/nav/aiti2.gif Traceback (innermost last): File /var/zope222/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 175, in publish File /var/zope222/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 235, in commit File /var/zope222/lib/python/ZODB/Transaction.py, line 251, in commit File /var/zope222/lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py, line 267, in commit ConflictError: " ------ 2000-09-19T13:41:30 INFO(0) Z2 CONFLICT Competing writes at, /em/nav/aiti2.gif Traceback (innermost last): File /var/zope222/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 175, in publish File /var/zope222/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 235, in commit File /var/zope222/lib/python/ZODB/Transaction.py, line 251, in commit File /var/zope222/lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py, line 267, in commit ConflictError: " ================================================= Does this mean that zope doesn't lock it's files appropriately? feeling slightly scared... Martin PS: I use the latest source distr. - dl'ed and installed about an hour ago, and Mandrake Linux 7.1 x86