diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 82bccbe..ad389ad 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -165,6 +165,11 @@
 			<artifactId>commons-cli</artifactId>
 			<version>1.2</version>
 		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>edu.ucar</groupId>
+			<artifactId>unidataCommon</artifactId>
+			<version>4.2.20</version>
+		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/FileReader.java b/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/FileReader.java
index c092a1e..460dc19 100644
--- a/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/FileReader.java
+++ b/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/FileReader.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import info.fetter.logstashforwarder.util.AdapterException;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
+//import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ import java.util.Map;
 
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 
+import ucar.unidata.io.RandomAccessFile;
+
 public class FileReader extends Reader {
 	private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(FileReader.class);
 	private static final byte[] ZIP_MAGIC = new byte[] {(byte) 0x50, (byte) 0x4b, (byte) 0x03, (byte) 0x04};
diff --git a/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/FileSigner.java b/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/FileSigner.java
index f130b0b..f02c7e2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/FileSigner.java
+++ b/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/FileSigner.java
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 package info.fetter.logstashforwarder;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
+//import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
 import java.util.zip.Adler32;
 
+import ucar.unidata.io.RandomAccessFile;
+
 public class FileSigner {
 	private static final Adler32 adler32 = new Adler32();
 	
diff --git a/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/FileState.java b/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/FileState.java
index 5933100..35fa6b9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/FileState.java
+++ b/src/main/java/info/fetter/logstashforwarder/FileState.java
@@ -20,10 +20,13 @@ package info.fetter.logstashforwarder;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
+//import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
+
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringBuilder;
 
+import ucar.unidata.io.RandomAccessFile;
+
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
 
 public class FileState {
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ public class FileState {
 		this.file = file;
 		directory = file.getCanonicalFile().getParent();
 		fileName = file.getName();
-		randomAccessFile = new RandomAccessFile(file, "r");
+		randomAccessFile = new RandomAccessFile(file.getPath(), "r");
 		lastModified = file.lastModified();
 		size = file.length();
 	}