[Zope] zope startup script is failing (2.5.0 on rh linux 7.2)

[Duane Douglas]

At 11:12 AM 2/28/2002 -0500, Matthew T. Kromer wrote:
>It means the Zope process does not have permission to write to the var 
>directory (under the Zope home).
>
>Don't run Zope as root; set up a different Zope userid to run the software 
>and have the software and data homes owned by the Zope userid.

ok.  i created a user called *zope* and recursively changed the ownership 
of the zope directories to the zope user.  but now i'm getting a 
*permission denied* message when i run the zope startup script.  the output 
is below:

[zope@grumpy Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86]$ ./start
./start: /usr/local/zope/Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86/bin/python: Permission denied
./start: exec: /usr/local/zope/Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86/bin/python: cannot 
execute: Permission denied
[zope@grumpy Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86]$ pwd
/usr/local/zope/Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86
[zope@grumpy Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86]$ cd bin
[zope@grumpy bin]$ ls -l
total 1424
-rwxrwxrwx    1 zope     users     1453722 Jan 25 13:47 python
[zope@grumpy bin]$

the file *python* is owned by the zope user who has full access to the 
file.  yet, i'm getting a *permission denied* error when the startup script 
attempts to execute this file.

any ideas on how to resolve this issue?

tia