pipeline doesn't work: ERROR: too many url strings specified

[zhibo-yan]

I want to use the pipeline feature of gridftp. I run globus-gridftp-server as a daemon in two servers and use globus-url-copy and -pp or -pipeline to achieve third-party transfer at one of the servers. But errors occur: too many url strings specified. How can I use the pipeline feature? Thanks.

[zhibo-yan]

[root@bl197 ~]# globus-gridftp-server -version
globus_gridftp_server: 13.24 (1653033972-1)

[root@bl197 ~]# globus-url-copy -version
globus-url-copy: 10.12

[fscheiner]

@yanzhibo-nju:
Please also provide the used commandline.

[zhibo-yan]

Server1: globus-gridftp-server -control-interface 192.168.110.1 -aa -p 60060 - anonymous-user 1040 -home-dir /home/data -auth-level 0 -allow-root

Server2: globus-gridftp-server -control-interface 192.168.110.2 -aa -p 60060 - anonymous-user 1040 -home-dir /home/data -auth-level 0 -allow-root

then still on server2: globus-url-copy -vb -pp 2 -r ftp://192.168.110.1:60060/home/dtn/200MB/ ftp://192.168.110.2:60060/home/dtn/200MB/,where 200MB is my file folder.

[fscheiner]

Thanks for the details.

Two points here:

• -pp is a flag (see

  gct/gass/copy/source/globus_url_copy.c

  Line 900 in aed61cc

  flagdef(arg_pipeline, "-pp","-pipeline");

  ) and does not have an argument, so please try without 2 after it first and if that works add -ppq 2 (which is undocumented, but actually seems to exist:

  gct/gass/copy/source/globus_url_copy.c

  Line 912 in aed61cc

  oneargdef(arg_pipelineq, "-ppq","-pipelineq", NULL, NULL);

  )
• I am unsure if this works with the standard FTP protocol at all, so if the above mentioned doesn't work, try with gsiftp:// instead
  => pipelining works with FTP protocol as well, see pipeline doesn't work: ERROR: too many url strings specified #203 (comment)

Hope this helps, please let me know if it works or not.

[zhibo-yan]

Hi fscheiner, thank you very much for your reply. I have tried the two ways, -pp as a flag and -ppq with an argument, they both work! But I still use ftp:// rather than gsi:ftp//, I believe for gsi:ftp it will work as well.

Thanks for you help again!

[fscheiner]

@yanzhibo-nju
Good to know and thanks for your report.