Hi Artem, Fabrizio, My script can already create the dir. It's not a problem to create the directory. The problem is the return value. Normally 0 means it successes. In my old script, I used the return 0 to decide the job successes. It caused a problem. Thanks Wen On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Fabrizio Furano <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just had a quick check, and I can reproduce it. Towards a server it > creates a non existing path, towards the local fs this is not supported in > the code. > I'll fix it n a few days, but then you'll have to upgrade. Otherwise you > could simply create the destination dir from your scripts before invoking > xrdcp. > > Fabrizio > > > Artem Trunov ha scritto: >> >> Hi, Wen! >> >> I think it's reasinable that the tool doesn't create the local dir for >> you. Note that when the destination is xrootd server, it WILL create >> the target dir for you. But error code should be non zero, here I >> agree with you. >> >> cheers >> Artem >> >> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:29 PM, wen guan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am using the xrootd version below. I found xrdcp has some >>> problem. In the command below, xrdcp failed to copy the file because >>> the destination directory doesn't exist. But it return 0 which makes >>> me thought it successed. >>> http://xrootd.slac.stanford.edu/download/20091028-1003 >>> >>> (*) >>> [root@higgs15 XrootdMover]# xrdcp >>> >>> root://atlas-bkp2.cs.wisc.edu:1094//atlas/xrootd/atlasdumpdisk/bnl/dumper_15.6.1_tag13_data09_ESD_bnl/data09_2TeV.00142308.physics_L1Calo.merge.DNTUP_COLLCAND.r988_p62_tid101808_00/NTUP/data09_2TeV.00142308.physics_L1Calo.merge.DNTUP_COLLCAND.r988_p62_tid101808_00.1370.root >>> >>> //atlas/xrootd/atlasdumpdisk/bnl/dumper_15.6.1_tag13_data09_ESD_bnl/data09_2TeV.00142308.physics_L1Calo.merge.DNTUP_COLLCAND.r988_p62_tid101808_00/NTUP/data09_2TeV.00142308.physics_L1Calo.merge.DNTUP_COLLCAND.r988_p62_tid101808_00.1370.root >>> Error No such file or directory accessing path for >>> >>> //atlas/xrootd/atlasdumpdisk/bnl/dumper_15.6.1_tag13_data09_ESD_bnl/data09_2TeV.00142308.physics_L1Calo.merge.DNTUP_COLLCAND.r988_p62_tid101808_00/NTUP/data09_2TeV.00142308.physics_L1Calo.merge.DNTUP_COLLCAND.r988_p62_tid101808_00.1370.root >>> [root@higgs15 XrootdMover]# echo $? >>> 0 >>> >>> >>> Wen >>> >