---
name: "nordugridmap"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "nordugrid-arc-nordugridmap"
version: "6.17.0-3"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nordugridmap"
---

# nordugridmap(8)

ARC grid-mapfile generator

## NAME

nordugridmap - ARC grid-mapfile generator

## SYNOPSIS

**nordugridmap** \[**-t**, **--test**\] \[**-c**, **--config** *FILE*\] \[**-h**, **--help**\]

## DESCRIPTION

The nordugridmap utility is usually run as a crontab entry in order to automatically  generate grid-mapfile(s).

All information about mapfiles to generate, sources of information and other related  options are stored in a single configuration file. Common Nordugrid ARC configuration file [**arc.conf**(5)](/arc.conf/5.md) used if not redefined via command line option.

## EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

The sources of information supported by nordugridmap are the following:

- **http(s)://**

  URL to plain text file. File should contain a list of DNs - one DN per line.

- **voms(s)://**

  URL to VOMS-Admin interface.

- **nordugrid**

  NorduGrid VO members

- **file://**

  Local file (stand-alone or dynamicaly generated by nordugridmap). File should contain a list of DNs with optional mapped unixid:  "user DN" \[mapped unixID\]

- **vo://**

  Reference to another VO configuration block

We are STRONGLY RECOMMEND TO READ tne Nordugruid ARC documentation, [**arc.conf**(5)](/arc.conf/5.md)  manual page and/or the **arc.conf.reference** to learn all details about nordugridmap configuration options usage.

## OPTIONS

- **-t**, **--test**

  Does not actually create grid-mapfile(s), but perform test run in debug mode.

- **-c**, **--config** *FILE*

  Specifies the configuration file to be used. By default the [**arc.conf**(5)](/arc.conf/5.md) is used. nordugridmap utilize \[nordugridmap\] section for general options fine-tunung and processes all the \[vo\] blocks from the config.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show help options

## REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to http://bugzilla.nordugrid.org/

## COPYRIGHT

APACHE LICENSE Version 2.0

## FILES

**/etc/arc.conf**

## 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

## SEE ALSO

[**arc.conf**(5)](/arc.conf/5.md)