Hi Derek, well, I am sorry to bother you so much, but I am not able to get out from this maze. The problem I find is that when I make install, it puts the things in a way which looks incompatible with the normal start/stop scripts, which hence do not work. This may be one reason for the bloody mess of alternative install/start/stop scripts that I see around. So, if I keep the default prefix /usr/local, I expect to have the config files in /usr/local/etc, and the libs in /usr/local/lib, but what I see now is that "make install" puts that stuff into /usr/local/ etc/xrootd and similar for lib. This is not compatible with the standard StartXRD scripts, which everybody use (except Alice afaik). What do you think about this? Are you aware of any workaround for that? Btw in the meantime, I will install my machines like I always did, i.e. with the plain configure.classic, but that is not what the Alice guys are used to, even if it's much simpler by now imho. Fabrizio Furano [log in to unmask]