This has now been addressed in R5 under the rubric of "rationalizing pidfile creation". The cli -s option will indeed make sure that the pidfile is created where you said it should be created. If a pidfile directive appears in he config file, a pidfile may be created there as well. All pidfile will only have a pid in them, nothing more. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/802#issuecomment-613215943 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1