Hello Yannick, ok I'll do that for now. thanks cheers alessandra Yannick Patois wrote: > Hi, > > Alessandra Forti a écrit : >> StartXDR requires a binary called "access". >> can anybody enlighten me on what it is? > > Seems that it just return if a file exists or not. > > I couldnt found anything close to that anywhere and created this: > > $ cat /usr/local/bin/access > #!/bin/bash > > dir=$2 > > touch $dir/toto > out=$? > rm $dir/toto > exit $out > > Pretty primitive, but will likely works for what we use it for. > > Yannick -- ******************************************* * Dr Alessandra Forti * * Technical Coordinator - NorthGrid Tier2 * * http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/aforti * *******************************************