hello all, the code that ends this email comes from zebra_rebuild.pl. It can be rewritten as: for('',qw( lock register shadow tab key )) { next if -d; $created_dir_or_file++; system("mkdir -p $authorityserverdir"); print "Info: created $authorityserverdir/$_"; } That is not a bug but it is currently written makes the things harder to read and maintain and it discourages to provide a patch to improve the code(imho). I would like to provide a patch to clean this code. This code is not the only one and so i wonder if the koha communauty wants to have this kind of patch. I also wonder how to do this because of the "fill a bug first" policy. It can be possible to create a "code cleaning" bug that will stay unfixed and our patches can be related to this one. regards, unless (-d "$authorityserverdir") { system("mkdir -p $authorityserverdir"); print "Info: created $authorityserverdir\n"; $created_dir_or_file++; } unless (-d "$authorityserverdir/lock") { mkdir "$authorityserverdir/lock"; print "Info: created $authorityserverdir/lock\n"; $created_dir_or_file++; } unless (-d "$authorityserverdir/register") { mkdir "$authorityserverdir/register"; print "Info: created $authorityserverdir/register\n"; $created_dir_or_file++; } unless (-d "$authorityserverdir/shadow") { mkdir "$authorityserverdir/shadow"; print "Info: created $authorityserverdir/shadow\n"; $created_dir_or_file++; } unless (-d "$authorityserverdir/tab") { mkdir "$authorityserverdir/tab"; print "Info: created $authorityserverdir/tab\n"; $created_dir_or_file++; } unless (-d "$authorityserverdir/key") { mkdir "$authorityserverdir/key"; print "Info: created $authorityserverdir/key\n"; $created_dir_or_file++; ... -- Marc Chantreux http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc