diff --git a/lib/rucio/client/baseclient.py b/lib/rucio/client/baseclient.py
index 9c93e01cc1..77a5df050d 100644
--- a/lib/rucio/client/baseclient.py
+++ b/lib/rucio/client/baseclient.py
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ def _send_request(self, url, headers=None, type_='GET', data=None, params=None,
                 if retry > self.request_retries:
                     raise
                 continue
-            except IOError as error:
+            except OSError as error:
                 # Handle Broken Pipe
                 # While in python3 we can directly catch 'BrokenPipeError', in python2 it doesn't exist.
                 if getattr(error, 'errno') != errno.EPIPE:
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ def __read_token(self):
             token_file_handler = open(self.token_file, 'r')
             self.auth_token = token_file_handler.readline()
             self.headers['X-Rucio-Auth-Token'] = self.auth_token
-        except IOError as error:
+        except OSError as error:
             print("I/O error({0}): {1}".format(error.errno, error.strerror))
         except Exception:
             raise
@@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ def __write_token(self):
                 with fdopen(file_d, "w") as f_exp_epoch:
                     f_exp_epoch.write(str(self.token_exp_epoch))
                 move(file_n, self.token_exp_epoch_file)
-        except IOError as error:
+        except OSError as error:
             print("I/O error({0}): {1}".format(error.errno, error.strerror))
         except Exception:
             raise
diff --git a/lib/rucio/common/cache.py b/lib/rucio/common/cache.py
index 1abd8f8bae..ccd0150a39 100644
--- a/lib/rucio/common/cache.py
+++ b/lib/rucio/common/cache.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
         import pymemcache
         _mc_client = pymemcache.Client(CACHE_URL, connect_timeout=1, timeout=1)
         _mc_client.version()
-except IOError:
+except OSError:
     ENABLE_CACHING = False
 except ImportError:
     ENABLE_CACHING = False
diff --git a/lib/rucio/common/pcache.py b/lib/rucio/common/pcache.py
index b937d2dd02..ddcd6f2697 100644
--- a/lib/rucio/common/pcache.py
+++ b/lib/rucio/common/pcache.py
@@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ def lock_file(self, name, blocking=True):
             return
         try:
             f = open(name, 'w')
-        except IOError as e:
+        except OSError as e:
             self.log(ERROR, "open: %s", e)
             return e.errno
 
@@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ def lock_file(self, name, blocking=True):
             try:
                 status = fcntl.lockf(f, flag)
                 break
-            except IOError as e:
+            except OSError as e:
                 if e.errno in (errno.EAGAIN, errno.EACCES) and not blocking:
                     f.close()
                     del self.locks[name]
diff --git a/lib/rucio/core/rule.py b/lib/rucio/core/rule.py
index 49d1f8420a..e9b103f84a 100644
--- a/lib/rucio/core/rule.py
+++ b/lib/rucio/core/rule.py
@@ -2791,7 +2791,7 @@ def generate_email_for_rule_ok_notification(
         try:
             with open(template_path, 'r') as templatefile:
                 template = Template(templatefile.read())
-        except IOError as ex:
+        except OSError as ex:
             logger(logging.ERROR, "Couldn't open file '%s'", template_path, exc_info=ex)
             return
 
diff --git a/lib/rucio/daemons/auditor/hdfs.py b/lib/rucio/daemons/auditor/hdfs.py
index 1c1e26df59..e7ad1a2108 100644
--- a/lib/rucio/daemons/auditor/hdfs.py
+++ b/lib/rucio/daemons/auditor/hdfs.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def _hdfs_get(src_url, dst_path):
     )
     _, stderr = get.communicate()
     if get.returncode != 0:
-        raise IOError('_hdfs_get(): "{0}": {1}. Return code {2}'.format(
+        raise OSError('_hdfs_get(): "{0}": {1}. Return code {2}'.format(
             ' '.join(cmd),
             stderr,
             get.returncode,
diff --git a/lib/rucio/rse/protocols/posix.py b/lib/rucio/rse/protocols/posix.py
index 9c9ab7a937..cdd670c77a 100644
--- a/lib/rucio/rse/protocols/posix.py
+++ b/lib/rucio/rse/protocols/posix.py
@@ -70,12 +70,12 @@ def get(self, pfn, dest, transfer_timeout=None):
          """
         try:
             shutil.copy(self.pfn2path(pfn), dest)
-        except IOError as e:
+        except OSError as e:
             try:  # To check if the error happend local or remote
                 with open(dest, 'wb'):
                     pass
                 call(['rm', '-rf', dest])
-            except IOError as e:
+            except OSError as e:
                 if e.errno == 2:
                     raise exception.DestinationNotAccessible(e)
                 else:
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ def put(self, source, target, source_dir=None, transfer_timeout=None):
             if not os.path.exists(dirs):
                 os.makedirs(dirs)
             shutil.copy(sf, target)
-        except IOError as e:
+        except OSError as e:
             if e.errno == 2:
                 raise exception.SourceNotFound(e)
             elif not self.exists(self.rse['prefix']):
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ def rename(self, pfn, new_pfn):
             if not os.path.exists(os.path.dirname(new_path)):
                 os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(new_path))
             os.rename(path, new_path)
-        except IOError as e:
+        except OSError as e:
             if e.errno == 2:
                 if self.exists(self.pfn2path(path)):
                     raise exception.SourceNotFound(e)
diff --git a/lib/rucio/rse/protocols/webdav.py b/lib/rucio/rse/protocols/webdav.py
index 61ddba3d09..d3c740e641 100644
--- a/lib/rucio/rse/protocols/webdav.py
+++ b/lib/rucio/rse/protocols/webdav.py
@@ -331,13 +331,13 @@ def put(self, source, target, source_dir=None, transfer_timeout=None, progressba
                         raise exception.RucioException(result.status_code, result.text)
                 except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as error:
                     raise exception.ServiceUnavailable(error)
-                except IOError as error:
+                except OSError as error:
                     raise exception.SourceNotFound(error)
         except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as error:
             raise exception.ServiceUnavailable(error)
         except requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout as error:
             raise exception.ServiceUnavailable(error)
-        except IOError as error:
+        except OSError as error:
             raise exception.SourceNotFound(error)
 
     def rename(self, pfn, new_pfn):