NAME¶

arcecho - ARC echo client

DESCRIPTION¶

The arcecho command is a client for the ARC echo service.

SYNOPSIS¶

arcecho [options] service message

OPTIONS¶

-z, --conffile=filename

configuration file (default ~/.arc/client.conf)

-d, --debug=debuglevel

FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, VERBOSE or DEBUG

-v, --version

print version information

-?, --help

print help

ARGUMENTS¶

service

A URL to an ARC echo service

message

The message the service should return

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION¶

arcecho is a simple test tool: we can send a message to the echo service and it will respond with the same message.

FILES¶

~/.arc/client.conf

Some options can be given default values by specifying them in the ARC client configuration file. By using the --conffile option a different configuration file can be used than the default.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶

X509_USER_PROXY

The location of the user's Grid proxy file. Shouldn't be set unless the proxy is in a non-standard location.

ARC_LOCATION

The location where ARC is installed can be specified by this variable. If not specified the install location will be determined from the path to the command being executed, and if this fails a WARNING will be given stating the location which will be used.

ARC_PLUGIN_PATH

The location of ARC plugins can be specified by this variable. Multiple locations can be specified by separating them by : (; in Windows). The default location is $ARC_LOCATION/lib/arc (\ in Windows).

COPYRIGHT¶

APACHE LICENSE Version 2.0

AUTHOR¶

ARC software is developed by the NorduGrid Collaboration (http://www.nordugrid.org), please consult the AUTHORS file distributed with ARC. Please report bugs and feature requests to http://bugzilla.nordugrid.org