Hi Peter,
root://host:port/x/y/z/filename
where host is the redirector?
cheers
alessandra
Peter Elmer wrote:
> Hi Alessandra,
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:49:41PM +0100, Alessandra Forti wrote:
>> I got an xrootd server working and I've tested it with babar Kan utils.
>> Is there another more generic way to test it? Like for example
>> interactive access with root? I'm slightly confused by the babar
>> applications... Do I need something like KanAccess.cfg also in a generic
>> environment? Do I need to give a different name to the path on each node?
>
> No, the KanAccess.cfg stuff is completely separate from xrootd, it
> is just what in CMS we now call a "trivial file catalog" that maps
> LFNs to PFNs. When you are talking talking to xrootd you already
> have some PFN of the forum:
>
> root://host:port/x/y/z/filename
>
> To test xrootd you could do things from the ROOT prompt if you
> are using ROOT files (highly probable, of course) with something like:
>
> myfile = TFile::Open("root://host:port/x/y/z/file.root");
> myfile->ls();
>
> or you can use the xrootd tool xrdcp (for example) for any time of file:
>
> xrdcp root://host:port/x/y/z/filename .
>
> There is also xrdadmin, but that is more complex for a simple test. (And
> not yet well documented, and perhaps not fully tested.)
>
> Pete
>
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