Hi,
for the history of 'xrd'... we also spoke about the functionality of
specifying a text file containing commands to be executed in sequence,
without loosing the Connection Manager advantages (persistent connections).
The syntax would be something like
xrd -f <filename>
Fabrizio
Peter Elmer wrote:
> Hi All (in particular Fabrizio!),
>
> At SLAC in December we had a discussion regarding the "admin" portion
> and we wrote down on the whiteboard how the admin sub-commands would be
> divided up between two main commands 'xrd' and 'xrdadmin'. I was supposed
> to post the lists, so here they are:
>
> xrd commands xrdadmin commands
> ------------ -----------------
> rm shutdown
> mv restart
> cp redirect
> stat kill
> chksum message
> pause
> resume
> monitor
> query
>
> There were some additional notes:
>
> o "rm /x/y/z/*" cannot be easily supported, but
>
> xrd rm root://host:port/x.dat
>
> can of course.
>
> o The semantics of
>
> xrd rm root://host:port/x.dat
>
> will be:
>
> - delete all available disk copies if host=redirector
> - delete only the local copy if host=dataserver
>
> Similar semantics apply also for the 'mv' command.
>
> o "stat" and "chksum" will redirect when sent to redirector and give
> results from a data server.
>
> o The semantics of the 'chmod' command was deemed confusing and it was
> decided to remove it.
>
> o The details of the syntax of the 'xrdadmin' were not specified, but we
> need to work through this.
>
> o We mentioned 'xrd ls', but (I think) didn't finish the discussion of
> whether this is supported.
>
> Let me know if I missed something or got it wrong.
>
> Pete
>
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