bpcp question (Scyld)

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Tony Stocker wrote:

> Quick question regarding bpcp, if you want to run bpcp from a slave node and 
> copy back to the host node, how do you do it?  We'd like to run a script on 
...
> bpsh 0 bpcp /dir/file -1:/dir
> bpsh 0 bpcp /dir/file "-1":/dir
> bpsh 0 bpcp /dir/file '-1':/dir
> bpsh 0 bpcp /dir/file [-1]:/dir

The proper cluster hostname syntax is ".-1", ".0", ".1".
A few tools optionally accept just the number, omitting the leading ".".
But as you found out this conflicts with the syntax for options and IP
addresses.

In your case using the alias "master" would make the operation clearer.

bpsh 0 bpcp /dir/file .-1:/dir
bpsh 0 bpcp /dir/file master:/dir

The alias "self" is similarly preferred to ".-2" for clarity.
Future releases will be using the alias "master0" (master<N>), so keep
this in mind if you are writing scripts.

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