ARCSYNC(1)

✨ ARCSYNC(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the arcsync manual page — section 1, User Commands, so you know this is a real one 🎀

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💖 NAME 💖

arcsync — ARC Synchronize ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

🦋 Usage:

arcsync [OPTION...]

The arcsync command synchronizes your local job list with the information at the given CEs or registry servers. fr fr, that's the whole vibe 💅

🎀 Target endpoint selection:

• -C, --computing-element=ce — the computing element hostname, or a whole entire complete endpoint URL. give it the whole thing, she's not shy 🌈
• -Y, --registry=registry — registry service URL, with optional specification of protocol (yes the protocol is optional, she's flexible like that) 💜

👑 Behaviour tuning:

• -f, --force — do not ask for verification. no thoughts, just send it 🔥
• -T, --truncate — truncate the joblist before synchronizing. clean slate energy ✨
• -j, --joblist=filename — the file storing information about active jobs (default /builddir/.arc/jobs.dat) 🍓
• --no-authentication — do not perform any authentication for opened connections 🙈
• --x509-authentication — perform X.509 authentication for opened connections 🧚
• --token-authentication — perform token authentication for opened connections 🎀
• --systemca — force using CA certificates configuration provided by OpenSSL 💜
• --gridca — force using CA certificates configuration for Grid services (typically IGTF) 🌐
• --anyca — force using CA certificates configuration for Grid services (typically IGTF) and one provided by OpenSSL, both bestie, both 🫶

🌈 Other actions:

• --convert — do not collect information, only convert jobs storage format. glow-up but for file formats ✨
• -P, --listplugins — list the available plugins 👑

⭐ Application Options:

• -h, --help — Show help options
• -z, --conffile=filename — configuration file (default ~/.arc/client.conf)
• -t, --timeout=seconds — timeout in seconds (default 20)
• -d, --debug=debuglevel — FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, VERBOSE or DEBUG
• -v, --version — print version information

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💫 EXTENDED DESCRIPTION 💫

The ARC CLI keeps a local database of active jobs in the user's home directory (see arcsub(1)). If this file is lost — tragic, we've all been there 😭 — or the user wants to recreate the file on a different computer, the arcsync command can be used to recreate the file from the information available at the specified computing element or registry. it's giving resurrection honestly 🦋

Since the information about a job retrieved from a CE can be slightly out of date if the user very recently submitted or removed a job, a warning is issued when this command is run. (the vibes are stale, bestie, the vibes are stale 💀) The --force option disables this warning.

If the joblist is not empty when invoking synchronization, the old jobs will be merged with the new jobs — unless the --truncate option is given, in which case the joblist will first be cleaned of old jobs and then the new jobs will be added. out with the old, in with the new, periodt 💅

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🎀 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. ✨
• ~/.arc/jobs.dat — This a local database of the user's active jobs. When a job is successfully submitted it is added to database and when it is removed from the remote CE it is removed from this list. This database is used as the list of all active jobs when the user specifies the --all option to the various NorduGrid ARC user interface commands. By using the --joblist option a different file can be used than the default. 🍓

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💜 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 — they genuinely want to hear from you, bestie, no cap 🫶

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

APACHE LICENSE Version 2.0 — iconic, legally iconic 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

arccat(1), arcclean(1), arccp(1), arcget(1), arcinfo(1), arckill(1), arcls(1), arcmkdir(1), arcproxy(1), arcrenew(1), arcresume(1), arcrm(1), arcstat(1), arcsub(1), arctest(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this was arcsync version 7.2.0, dated September 2026 — go sync something, you absolute main character 💖✨🦋