diff --git a/src/server/slavefuncs.c b/src/server/slavefuncs.c
--- a/src/server/slavefuncs.c
+++ b/src/server/slavefuncs.c
@@ -308,3 +308,25 @@ void xmlcleanup()
 {
   xmlCleanupParser();
 }
+
+
+/** Creates directories recursively */
+int distren_mkdir_recurse(char *dirname)
+{
+  size_t counter;
+  char *nextdir;
+
+  nextdir = strdup(dirname);
+  for(counter = 0; nextdir[counter]; counter ++)
+    {
+      /** @TODO OS-portabalize the path-separators */
+      if(nextdir[counter] == '/')
+        {
+          nextdir[counter] = '\0';
+          mkdir(nextdir, S_IRWXU | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
+          nextdir[counter] = '/';
+        }
+    }
+
+  return 0;
+}