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To allow production accounts (glastraw, glastxrw, glastmc and glast) to remove directory trees the xrootd forward method is used. The redirector will be configured to forward a rmdir request to all data servers. The data servers upon a request will execute a script that first checks if a directory is eligible for removal and then remove all files and directories below the specified directory. The xrootd configuration changes in the xrootd config are:

1. On the redirector allow forwarding of the rmdir command
2. On the data servers specify the script application that is called by the xrootd to remove directories. Only directories below /glast/Scratch will be allowed for removal.

To deploy a new xrootd version the following steps are required:

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