diff --git a/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/CMakeLists.txt b/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/CMakeLists.txt
index adb4e9b493bc415cb840b3ae81034b4e098a15da..21faabfdf7bed6c0972d41b73a431ff600cab632 100644
--- a/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/tapeserver/h)
 add_library (ctalegacymsg
   TapeLabelRqstMsgBody.cpp
   MessageHeader.cpp
-  TapeConfigRequestMsgBody.cpp
   TapeStatReplyMsgBody.cpp
   TapeStatRequestMsgBody.cpp
   GenericErrorReplyMsgBody.cpp
diff --git a/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/TapeConfigRequestMsgBody.cpp b/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/TapeConfigRequestMsgBody.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c019cc7b896083f433cb67bf00ea6c547d9bdea..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/TapeConfigRequestMsgBody.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-/******************************************************************************
- *
- * This file is part of the Castor project.
- * See http://castor.web.cern.ch/castor
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2003  CERN
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
- * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
- *
- *
- * 
- * @author Castor Dev team, castor-dev@cern.ch
- *****************************************************************************/
-
-#include "castor/legacymsg/TapeConfigRequestMsgBody.hpp"
-
-#include <string.h>
-
-//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// constructor
-//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-castor::legacymsg::TapeConfigRequestMsgBody::TapeConfigRequestMsgBody() throw():
-  uid(0),
-  gid(0),
-  status(0) {
-  memset(drive, '\0', sizeof(drive));
-}
diff --git a/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/TapeConfigRequestMsgBody.hpp b/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/TapeConfigRequestMsgBody.hpp
deleted file mode 100644
index d78fe77f487f1d93960a04b7332370f6a63fcdce..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/TapeConfigRequestMsgBody.hpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-/******************************************************************************
- *
- * This file is part of the Castor project.
- * See http://castor.web.cern.ch/castor
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2003  CERN
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
- * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
- *
- *
- * 
- * @author Castor Dev team, castor-dev@cern.ch
- *****************************************************************************/
-
-#pragma once
-
-#include "h/Castor_limits.h"
-#include <stdint.h>
-
-namespace castor {
-namespace legacymsg {
-
-/**
- * An admin command message.
- */
-struct TapeConfigRequestMsgBody {
-  uint32_t uid;
-  uint32_t gid;                       
-  char drive[CA_MAXUNMLEN+1];
-  int16_t status;
-
-  /**
-   * Constructor.
-   *
-   * Sets all integer member-variables to 0 and all string member-variables to
-   * the empty string.
-   */
-  TapeConfigRequestMsgBody() throw();
-
-}; // struct TapeConfigRequestMsgBody
-
-} // namespace legacymsg
-} // namespace castor
-