Hi, It looks like the same problem exists no matter what the OS (Fedora 12 or Ubuntu 9.10 or Windows) and this worked in Nov2009-SP1 release. When you try: 'copy select * from table1 limit 1000 into '/tmp/output.txt' You get: sql>copy select * from plk100 limit 1000 into '/tmp/output.txt'; MAPI = monetdb@localhost:50000 ACTION= read_line QUERY = copy select * from plk100 limit 1000 into '/tmp/output.txt'; ERROR = !Connection terminated Timer 1105.876 msec You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root [root@monetdb ~]# [root@monetdb /]# mserver5 --version MonetDB server v5.18.3 (64-bit), based on kernel v1.36.3 (64-bit oids) Copyright (c) 1993-July 2008 CWI Copyright (c) August 2008-2010 MonetDB B.V., all rights reserved Visit http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ for further information Found 47.3GiB available memory, 16 available cpu cores Configured for prefix: /usr Libraries: libpcre: 7.8 2008-09-05 (compiled with 7.8) openssl: OpenSSL 1.0.0-beta4 10 Nov 2009 (compiled with OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips-beta4 10 Nov 2009) libxml2: 2.7.6 (compiled with 2.7.6) Compiled by: mockbuild@ (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Compilation: gcc -O2 -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -falign-loops=4 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-functions=4 -fexpensive-optimizations -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -ftree-vectorize Linking : ld -IPA -m elf_x86_64 Please help. Thanks. Dariusz.