Hi all, I found yesterday that glusterfs and glusterfsd both don't read the specfiles when they are in the present directory you need to specify it through a path which will start from a '/'. like glusterfsd -f glusterfs-sever.vol -L DEBUG -l /var/log/glusterfsd.log now you do a cat on /var/log/glusterfsd.log i get [ERROR] FATAL couldn't open the file 'glusterfs-server.vol'. I am attaching a patch for this fix which was found that 'deamon' changes the working directory of the present program and sets it to '/'. Coz when i submitted the above command with NODAEMON option it used to work fine for both when you deamonize no specfile is read. I have tested this patch on Debain 4.0 - GCC 4.1 kernel 2.6.18-3-686 SMP. Regards & Thanks -- Harshavardhana "Software gets slower faster as Hardware gets faster"