I would forget all this RPM stuff and build Python 2.1 *and* Zope from their source tarballs. Do nothing as root or with sudo. Don't use /sbin/service. Use the "start" and "stop" scripts in the Zope directory. Don't use the '-u' option to ZEO/start.py. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)