Hello Andy I could not start xrootd as it exits immediately. The log file shows: 050620 14:30:38 001 XrootdConfig: Unable to open config file ÿÛÿÇ0; no such file or directory I traced it down to the line: xrd.protocol xrootd * If this line is commented out xrootd starts up otherwise it fails. The full log of xrootd is below. Cheers, wilko datadevsol01> ./prod/bin/xrootd -p 2094 -c ~wilko/work/xrootd/testCfg/xrootd-ddev_1.cf 050620 14:30:37 001 (c) 2004 Stanford University/SLAC xrd version 20050620-0614_dbg 050620 14:30:37 001 [log in to unmask] initialization started. 050620 14:30:37 001 Using configuration file /u/ec/wilko/work/xrootd/testCfg/xrootd-ddev_1.cf 050620 14:30:37 001 Optimizing for 16384 connections; maximum is 65536 050620 14:30:37 001 XrdSched: Set min_Workers=73 max_Workers=1024 050620 14:30:37 001 XrdSched: Set stk_Workers=820 max_Workidl=780 050620 14:30:37 001 XrdSched: scheduling underused thread monitor in 780 seconds 050620 14:30:37 001 XrdSched: Starting with 64 workers 050620 14:30:37 001 XrdLink: Allocating 16 link objects at a time 050620 14:30:37 001 XrdSched: scheduling idle link scan in 1198800 seconds 050620 14:30:37 001 XrdPoll: Starting poller 0 050620 14:30:37 001 XrdPoll: Starting poller 1 050620 14:30:37 001 XrdPoll: Starting poller 2 050620 14:30:38 001 XrdProtocol: loading protocol xrootd 050620 14:30:38 001 (c) 2005 Stanford University/SLAC XRootd. 050620 14:30:38 001 XrootdConfig: Unable to open config file ÿÛÿÇ0; no such file or directory 050620 14:30:38 001 XrdProtocol: Protocol xrootd could not be loaded 050620 14:30:38 001 [log in to unmask]:2094 initialization failed. On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Peter Elmer wrote: > Hi All, > > There is now a new development version of xrootd (20050620-0614). This > version is meant to be the next production release (really!). Once some > people do some basic testing of it, I'll switch to calling it > "production"... > > [The last "almost production" release (20050525-0946) got a bunch of > testing and some problems were drudged up, those and other things are > included in this release for another go at getting to "production" > quality...] > > The changes include: > > o more fixes for managing sessionid and file reopens > o lots of small fixes for building on various platforms > o changes to support the "merge" of TXNetFile and xrd posix-like client > o small fixes for SEGV's in particular situations > o fixes for propagating error codes, etc. when using proxies > o fixes in the mps scripts for problems seen at RAL > o small bug fixes in the XrdMon scripts > o new feature: addition of a generalized if-else config facility > o new feature: any number of xrootd's and olbd's are now allowed > on a single host > o new feature(s): thanks to Gerri Ganis, we now have gsi and pwd > authentication working with the xrd security framework and available > out of the standard builds > > Feedback from testing is welcome as soon as you can send it! > > For the full set of changes and links to rpms/tarballs to download see the > the xrootd web page and/or version history: > > http://xrootd.slac.stanford.edu > http://xrootd.slac.stanford.edu/xrootd.History > > Let us know if there are problems. > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >