Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Barrass said: > This is kind of time-frame coupled. In the short term we > still need to > do things like issue 'ls' or 'cksum' to check that a file > exists after > transfer, and has the right size. We also need to burrow into various > tape systems to issue baroque commands to work out whether files have > been migrated yet. So in fact far from "no backdoor access", CMS is asking for very deeply embedded access to the SE and the systems behind it? > After that it's down to more easily set local configuration-- > where to put files, hostnames etc. Which is what the Glue schema is for ... Stephen