These are rudimentary, but useable, startup scripts for Mac OS X. For a standalone (no ZEO) configuration, copy the Plone-Standalone directory to /Library/StartupItems: sudo cp -R Plone-Standalone /Library/StartupItems/Plone For a ZEO cluster configuration, copy the Plone-Cluster directory to /Library/StartupItems: sudo cp -R Plone-Cluster /Library/StartupItems/Plone