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Heinz Stockinger wrote:
> Hi Fabrizio,
> 
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Fabrizio Furano wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Heinz,
>>
>>  nice alpha testing. I was just waiting for some feedback.
>> From your log it seems that that's the case. yes. We know that the
>>authors of a piece of sw are the worst testers for it. Especially for an
>>alpha version, isn't it? :-D
> 
> 
> Sure :-) I'm happy to do further tests.
> 
> 
>>Did it work correctly for you in the other cases?

I meant the xrd->local and xrd->xrd cases.

> 
> 
> I looked at it in detail again: the file _is_ actually created at the
> first time but the server receives a stat which fails. Therefore, the
> client gets some wrong information and it looks like the file creation
> failed.
>

Yes, I hope that this is not related to specific server versions, but, 
again, I have to check.

> I would also suggest to add a more detailed help command and an example
> for the syntax of both, <source> <dest>. It took me quite some time to
> figure out what the syntax of <dest> is.
> 

I imagine. The syntax is well described in the Xrdcp.cc file. A xrdcp -h 
option can be a good idea.

> Cheers,
> Heinz
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>Fabrizio
>>
>>Heinz Stockinger wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Fabrizio,
>>>
>>>I was just playing around a bit with xrdcp to see how it works. It seems
>>>that copying to a server only works at the second attempt:
>>>
>>>[noric01] ~/dev-xrootd/xrootd/bin/i386_linux24_dbg > xrdcp
>>>/tmp/heinz/testfile root://noric02.slac.stanford.edu:3000//tmp/testfile
>>>041005 08:05:22 31927 Xrd: main (C) 2004 SLAC INFN xrdcp 0.1.0alpha
>>>041005 08:05:22 31927 Xrd:  (C) 2004 SLAC XrdClientAdmin 0.1.0alpha
>>>041005 08:05:22 31927 Xrd: Stat Server [noric02.slac.stanford.edu:3000]
>>>did not return OK message for last request.
>>>041005 08:05:22 31927 Xrd: SendGenCommand Server declared error
>>>3011:Unable to state /tmp/testfile; No such file or directory
>>>041005 08:05:22 31927 Xrd:  (C) 2004 SLAC XrdClientAdmin 0.1.0alpha
>>>041005 08:05:22 31927 Xrd: Create (C) 2004 SLAC INFN XrdClient 0.1.0alpha
>>>
>>>[noric01] ~/dev-xrootd/xrootd/bin/i386_linux24_dbg > xrdcp
>>>/tmp/heinz/testfile root://noric02.slac.stanford.edu:3000//tmp/testfile
>>>041005 08:05:35 31931 Xrd: main (C) 2004 SLAC INFN xrdcp 0.1.0alpha
>>>041005 08:05:35 31931 Xrd:  (C) 2004 SLAC XrdClientAdmin 0.1.0alpha
>>>041005 08:05:35 31931 Xrd:  (C) 2004 SLAC XrdClientAdmin 0.1.0alpha
>>>041005 08:05:35 31931 Xrd: Create (C) 2004 SLAC INFN XrdClient 0.1.0alpha
>>>
>>>I guess you've seen that too, right? I tested the CVS HEAD version.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Heinz
>>>
>>>
>>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>Heinz Stockinger - CERN & INFN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
>>>phone: +41 22 767 16 08; fax: +41 22 767 89 40
>>>http://www.cern.ch/hst/
>>