Moved to Debian - map question

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I decided that if I am going to setup a server I would rather go Debian. Last night I dumped my Windows 2003 server and did a Debian 5, which I have setup before years ago. I have done this a few times so not sure where I am getting this problem. I have everything tweaked good and the bots are working, quest are working. Zone times are great and all is well. For some reason my maps are not working. I have them in /home/eqemu/maps and eqemu/users owns the directory and files. The damn things refuse to work though. I do a #bestz in any zone and they show deactivated. I have tried tox, poknowledge, etc.... and they are not working. probably missing something simple here but I have not figured it out yet.