Your platform is reported as: freebsd.
This is Discus 3.10.5.
General program diagnostics Checking for Perl 5.005 or higher: PASSED! Your Perl version is 5.010001 Perl appears to be found at [/usr/bin/perl] Checking "crypt()" function: PASSED! Checking discus.conf existence: PASSED! Checking discus.conf readability: ERROR! Your discus.conf file is not readable. Reason: Permission denied Check that permissions on discus.conf are set properly to 0755 (rwxr-xr-x). I think that's your problem!