Hi It seems our render_expired binary was broken. I compiled a new one from svn head it it seems to work better (at least the output is not so curious). I was able to get it to work in touch-mode: osm@ptolemy:~$ head -1 osm-load-next.17813.expire | $HOME/bin/render_expired --map=default --min-zoom=11 --touch-from=11 --tile-dir=/osm/tiles --socket=/home/project/o/s/m/osm/tirex/var/run/tirex.sock but not in renderd-mode: osm@ptolemy:~$ head -1 osm-load-next.17813.expire | $HOME/bin/render_expired --map=default --min-zoom=11 --tile-dir=/osm/tiles --socket=/home/project/o/s/m/osm/tirex/var/run/tirex.sock it failes with a wired error message: Failed to parse tile path: /osm/tiles/default/16/0/38/165/87/0.meta If some one want's to play with it (I guess it's just a small C-glitch) you can become osm and go to $HOME/src/renderd_svn_head. I already fixed the makefile to build under solaris: make render_expired and use the binary in this folder instead of $HOME/bin/render_expired. A example expire-file is $HOME/osm-load-next.17813.expire, it has been taken out of the regular expiry cycle. Peter Am 02.03.2011 13:52, schrieb Kay Drangmeister: