Follow-up Comment #3, bug #87423 (project xrootd): Hi Andreas, That's good. I posted a fix for a related problem that may be a fix for this problem. Specifically, when you background xrootd the back-grounding code also closed the shadow file descriptor used by the logger. Doing so would cause random crashes. It's in git head. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/?87423> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by LCG Savannah http://savannah.cern.ch/