diff --git a/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/legacymsg.hpp b/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/legacymsg.hpp
deleted file mode 100644
index cf18091cbad2b322460e90cb770358abc1d9f17b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tapeserver/castor/legacymsg/legacymsg.hpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +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 "common/exception/Exception.hpp"
-
-namespace castor    {
-namespace legacymsg {
-
-/**
- * Writes an RC reply message to the specified connection.
- *
- * @param fd The file descriptor of the connection.
- * @param rc The return code to reply.
- * 
- */
-void writeTapeRcReplyMsg(const int timeout, const int fd, const int rc);
-
-/**
- * Writes a generic reply message to the specified connection.
- * 
- * @param timeout Connection timeout in seconds
- * @param fd      The file descriptor of the connection.
- * @param rc      The return code to reply.
- * @param message Reply message string
- */
-void writeTapeReplyMsg(const int timeout, const int fd, const int rc, const std::string &message);
-
-/**
- * Writes an error reply message to the specified connection.
- * 
- * @param timeout Connection timeout in seconds
- * @param fd      The file descriptor of the connection.
- * @param message Reply error message string
- */
-void writeTapeReplyErrorMsg(const int timeout, const int fd, const std::string &message);
-  
-} // namespace legacymsg
-} // namespace castor
diff --git a/tapeserver/castor/tape/tapeserver/daemon/LabelSession.cpp b/tapeserver/castor/tape/tapeserver/daemon/LabelSession.cpp
index 9db9db17e13935b268aa43199c95af6dfbb3eae6..8a44c1d6a9f8ebb66f3cd7fad84bedf6c0820800 100644
--- a/tapeserver/castor/tape/tapeserver/daemon/LabelSession.cpp
+++ b/tapeserver/castor/tape/tapeserver/daemon/LabelSession.cpp
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
  *****************************************************************************/
 
 #include "castor/io/io.hpp"
-#include "castor/legacymsg/legacymsg.hpp"
 #include "castor/legacymsg/MessageHeader.hpp"
 #include "common/log/LogContext.hpp"
 #include "common/threading/System.hpp"