Hello everyone, I'm working on a twisted application that uses cred and pb. I'm having a bit of trouble getting my realm working as I want. In my .tac file, I have this: p = portal.Portal(CNDRealm()) c = checkers.InMemoryUsernamePasswordDatabaseDontUse(user="passwd") p.registerChecker(c) application = service.Application("receiver") service = service.IServiceCollection(application) factory = pb.PBServerFactory(p) internet.TCPServer(8800, factory).setServiceParent(service) My realm, CNDRealm, looks like this: from globals import devs, queues, conditions, devices class CNDRealm(object): implements(portal.IRealm) def __init__(self): for i in devs: queues[i] = list() conditions[i] = threading.Condition() devices[i] = CNDDevice(i[0], socket.gethostbyname(i[0]), i[1], queues[i], conditions[i]) log.msg("Initialized devices: " % devices) def requestAvatar(self, aid, min, *interfaces): log.msg("Avatar requested: %s" % aid) if pb.IPerspective not in interfaces: raise NotImplementedError return pb.IPerspective, CNDSubmitter(aid), lambda: None However, I never get the log message from the __init__ method. I know that it's not being run because those dictionaries are never populated with the data my app needs to be in there. 1) What's going on? I'm pretty surprised to find that an object's __init__ doesn't seem to be getting called! 2) Is there some better place in a twistd app to put general start-up initialization kinds of things? -- Ross Vandegrift ross@kallisti.us "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37