Hello Andy, Thanks for the advice. I tried to add the line you mentioned but DIR_LOCK files are still beeing created under /prod (same as before). Regards, -- Gregory On Fri, 26 May 2006, Andrew Hanushevsky wrote: > Hi Gregory, > > As stage is the default for all oss paths, the DIR_LOCK files will be > created in every directory. Additionally, stagecmd makes the default > stage and mssgwcmd makes mig the default (either of which create DIR_LOCK > files). The solution is to explicitly make /store stageable and > not /prod. So, change: > >> oss.stage > > to be: > > oss.stage > oss.path /prod nostage nomig > > Andy (not part of the above directives :-)