• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• TYPE CODES
• BUGS
• DOWNLOAD
• COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

NAME

egrid-mkdirhier - Make a directory tree conforming to EGRID RFC 2

SYNOPSIS

egrid-mkdirhier --type {R|D|P|U} [OPTIONS] DIRNAME [DIRNAME ...]

Options:

-A, --args-from FILE

Read additional non-option command-line arguments from FILE; only non-option arguments can be read this way.

-C, --chdir DIR

cd to DIR first.

--help

Print help text and exit.

-k, --keep-going

Don't stop at errors in shell commands.

-L, --lfc

Run (or print) commands to create the tree in the LFC catalog namespace instead of local filesystem.

-p, --print

Print shell commands that build tree, instead of executing them.

-t, --type

Which kind of directory tree to build. (Mandatory.)

-V, --version

Print version number and exit.

DESCRIPTION

egrid-mkdirhier makes all directories specified on the command line; makes subdirectories and sets permissions and ownerships according to EGRID RFC 2 http://www.egrid.it/sysadm/rfc/2 .

What exactly is created depends on the argument following --type.

TYPE CODES

The one-letter argument to --type can be one of the following:

R

Make the root directory of the EGRID storage area.

D

Make a ``raw & ascii'' data directory; assumes groups DIRNAME-ro and DIRNAME-rw exist, which are given ownerships of subdirectories of DIRNAME, according to EGRID RFC 2 http://www.egrid.it./sysadm/rfc/2 .

P

Make a ``project data'' directory; assumes a group DIRNAME exists, which is given ownership of the directory.

U

Make a ``user data'' directory; assumes DIRNAME is also a user and a group name.

For details on what exactly is built in each tree, how ownerships and permissions are set, and a rationale of all this, please see EGRID RFC 2 http://www.egrid.it/sysadm/rfc/2 .

BUGS

Tries to set ownership according to directory name, and the map between directory names and user names is the trivial one: e.g. for a directory of type U it assumes directory name == user name. There is currently no way of specifing a different map.

When using --print, it may output the wrong ownership and permissions for directories whose parent would have been created by egrid-mkdirhier.

The use of this tool is very limited as it cannot parse a config file: the only way to change the structure and permissions of created directories is through hacking of the source code.

The --verbose option does not yet report more information.

DOWNLOAD

You can download RPM packages of the EGRID SE Tools from http://www.egrid.it/download/rpm/RPMS.egrid; Debian packages from http://www.egrid.it/download/deb/egrid.

You can browse the source code for this software from the EGRID CVS at http://www.egrid.it/cvs/middleware/se/

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2004,2005 Riccardo Murri riccardo.murri@ictp.it for the EGRID project http://www.egrid.it/

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.