David Little writes:

I have installed 2.3.1 & zserver from the rpm on Mandrake 7.2 (freq)

running "/etc/init.d/zope start" as root seems to work.

In the browser "http://localhost:8080/manage" results in an error message "cannot connect to localhost"

But there is a kpm process 542 zope /usr/bin/python z2.py -u zope -z /usr/share/zope -Z /var/run/zwatchdog.pid -w 8080 -f 8021 -m -l /var/log/zope which presumably means the zserver is running on 8080 Seems that your DNS subsystem (which may be "/etc/hosts") does not map "localhost".

You may try to add: 127.0.0.1 localhost to your "/etc/hosts" file. Dieter