Hello Fabrizio I can't get the XrdClientAdmin to work. First I tried the perl interface but it crashed in the XrdClientAdmin::XrdInitialize (it never connected to xrootd). Because debugging wasn't easy for the perl bindings I build the TestXrdClient executable in XrdClient. It also fails and produces a core. The command is: > ./bin/TestXrdClient xrootd://datadevsol01:2094/// 050620 23:03:08 001 Xrd: (C) 2004 SLAC XrdClientAdmin 0.3 050620 23:03:08 001 Xrd: TakeUrl parsing url:0 050620 23:03:08 001 Xrd: GetDomainToMatch GetHostName(noric04) returned name=noric04.slac.stanford.edu 050620 23:03:08 001 Xrd: GetDomainToMatch GetDomain(noric04) --> slac.stanford.edu 050620 23:03:08 001 Xrd: XrdClientUrlSet parsing: xrootd://datadevsol01:2094/// 050620 23:03:08 001 Xrd: XrdClientUrlSet protocol: xrootd Segmentation fault (core dumped) The core is in: /nfs/objyserv01/objy/databases/wilko/xrootd/test_20050620/clientAdmin/core.2954 The binary is in ~wilko/bbtest/xrootd/t/xrootd/bin/i386_rhel30_dbg/TestXrdClient The core file shows: > gdb TestXrdClient core.2954 #0 0x00d1f503 in strlen () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (gdb) where #0 0x00d1f503 in strlen () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0x08056bdc in XrdClientString::Assign(XrdClientString&) (this=0xbfff7770, str=@0xbfff79a0) at XrdClientString.hh:84 #2 0x080568c5 in XrdClientString (this=0xbfff7770, str=@0xbfff79a0) at XrdClientString.hh:60 #3 0x0805be89 in operator<<(std::ostream&, XrdClientString const&) (os=@0xbfff78c0, obj=@0xbfff79a0) at XrdClientString.cc:119 #4 0x080752b4 in XrdClientUrlSet (this=0xbfff7bf0, urls= {data = 0x8276b50 "xrootd://datadevsol01:2094///", size = 29, capacity = 256}) at XrdClientUrlSet.cc:129 #5 0x080585fd in XrdClientAdmin::Connect() (this=0x8276610) at XrdClientAdmin.cc:102 #6 0x080556bd in XrdInitialize (url=0xbfffbf47 "xrootd://datadevsol01:2094///", EnvValues=0x8080c88 "DebugLevel 3\nConnectTimeout 5") at XrdClientAdmin_c.cc:122 #7 0x08054e1c in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfff7f44) at TestXrdClient.cc:22 It fails before any connection to a data server is made. Cheers, Wilko