Follow-up Comment #1, sr #120758 (project xrootd): Hi Ian, the client just prints the response it gets from the server. Here it got an error. In any case, the version you use is rather old, many bug fixes have been applied since then. In particular the xrd tool has been rewritten from scratch. Could you try a newer version? I cannot see any problem with a recent version. Cheers, Lukasz ]==> xrd castorpublic (C) 2004-2010 by the Xrootd group. Xrootd version: v20110503-7f4981f Welcome to the xrootd command line interface. Type 'help' for a list of available commands. > stat /castor/cern.ch/user/l/ljanyst/bigfile-80G.dat Id: 2278963111010500608 Size: 85899345920 Flags: 117 Modtime: 1281027488 root://c2publicsrv102.cern.ch:1094//castor/cern.ch/user/l/ljanyst> stat /castor/cern.ch/user/l/ljanyst/bigfile-80G.dat Id: 2278963111010500608 Size: 85899345920 Flags: 117 Modtime: 1281027488 root://c2publicsrv102.cern.ch:1094//castor/cern.ch/user/l/ljanyst> stat /castor/cern.ch/user/l/ljanyst/bigfile-80G.dat Id: 2278963111010500608 Size: 85899345920 Flags: 117 Modtime: 1281027488 root://c2publicsrv102.cern.ch:1094//castor/cern.ch/user/l/ljanyst> _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.cern.ch/support/?120758> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by LCG Savannah http://savannah.cern.ch/