Hi Fabrizio, I just tried to use xrdcp to copy a file from one place to another and ran into a couple of problems. I'm using version xrootd 20050119-0021. The client side is running RHEL3 and the server side is running SL3. On the server side I have: noric01> ls -l /usr/work/elmer/deepcopy16.02E.root -rw-r--r-- 1 elmer ec 7975402 Jan 20 10:15 /usr/work/elmer/deepcopy16.02E.root and do: noric01> xrootd/bin/xrootd -p 2525 /usr/work/elmer/ On the client side I tried: [csfd] ~/work > xrootd/bin/xrdcp root://noric01.slac.stanford.edu:2525//usr/work/elmer/deepcopy16.02E.root bogus.root Error Is a directory creating bogus.root The strange thing here is that it tried to create a directory: [csfd] ~/work > ls -ld bogus.root drwxr-xr-x 2 elmer bfactory 96 Jan 20 18:40 bogus.root I then tried to do: [csfd] ~/work > xrootd/bin/xrdcp root://noric01.slac.stanford.edu:2525//usr/work/elmer/deepcopy16.02E.root . [csfd] ~/work > but the result was an empty file: [csfd] ~/work > ls -ld deepcopy16.02E.root -rw-r--r-- 1 elmer bfactory 0 Jan 20 18:40 deepcopy16.02E.root Any idea what is going on here? thanks, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------------