[Zope] installing and running zope problem (r.h. linux 7.2)

[Duane Douglas]

hello

i posted a similar message yesterday and i didn't get any responses.

i'm new to zope and i'm trying to get 2.5.0 running on my box.  i installed 
zope as root (which i'm now thinking was a mistake) and i got an exception 
when i ran the startup script.  someone on this list suggested that i try 
running zope as another user.  so, i created a user called *zope* and 
granted ownership of the zope directories to this user.  i then ran the 
zope startup script as *zope*. i now get a permission denied message when 
the startup script runs.  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?  should i uninstall zope and 
reinstall it as the zope user?

tia