uucp(C)

Syntax

uulog [ -s system ] [ -x ]

uulog -f system [ -number ] [ -x ]

uuname [ -l ] [ -c ]

Description

uucp copies files named by the source-file arguments to the destination-file argument. A filename may be a pathname on your machine, or may have the form:

system-name!pathname

where system-name is taken from a list of system names that uucp knows about. The system-name may also be a list of names such as the following:

system-name!system-name! ... !system-name!pathname

In this case, an attempt is made to send the file via the specified route, to the destination. See ``Limitations'' below for restrictions. Care should be taken to ensure that intermediate nodes in the route are willing to forward information.

The shell metacharacters ``?'', ``'' and [ ... ] appearing in pathname will be expanded on the appropriate system.

Pathnames may be one of:

• A full pathname.

• A pathname preceded by ~user where user is a login name on the specified system and is replaced by that user's login directory.

• A pathname preceded by ~/destination where destination is appended to /usr/spool/uucppublic; this destination will be treated as a filename unless more than one file is being transferred by this request or the destination is already a directory. To ensure that destination is a directory, follow the destination with a ``/''. For example, ~/dan/ as the destination will make the directory /usr/spool/uucppublic/dan if it does not exist and put the requested file(s) in that directory.

• Anything else, which gets prefixed by the current directory.

If a simple ~user destination is inaccessible to uucp, data is copied to a spool directory and the user is notified by mail(C).

uucp preserves execute permissions across the transmission and gives 0666 read and write permissions (see chmod(C)).

The following options are interpreted by uucp:

-c

Do not copy local file to the spool directory for transfer to the remote machine (default).

-C

Force the copy of local files to the spool directory for transfer.

-d

Make all necessary directories for the file copy (default).

-f

Do not make intermediate directories for the file copy.

-g grade

grade is a single letter/number; lower ASCII sequence characters will cause the job to be transmitted earlier during a particular conversation.

-j

Print the job identification ASCII string on standard output. This job identification can be used by uustat to obtain the status or terminate a job.

-m

Send mail to the requester when the copy is completed.

The -m option will only work when sending files or receiving a single file. Receiving multiple files specified by special shell characters ``?'', ``*'', [ ... ] will not activate the -m option.

-n user

Notify user on the remote system that a file was sent.

-r

Do not start the file transfer, just queue the job.

-s file

Report status of the transfer to file. Note that the file must be a full pathname.

-x debug_level

Produce debugging output on standard output. The debug_level is a number between 0 and 9; higher numbers give more detailed information.

uulog has the following options:

-s system

Print information about file transfer operations for system only.

-f system

Continuously monitors the file transfer log for system and displays the output using tail -f. (You must press DELETE or BREAK to exit.)

-number

Indicates that tail should show number lines at a time. Used with the -f option.

-x

Look in the uuxqt log file for the given system, instead of the uucico log file (the default).

-c

Returns the names of systems known to cu instead of uucp. (The two lists are the same, unless your machine is using different Systems files for cu and uucp. See sysfiles(F).)

-l

Returns the local system name.

Limitations

All files received by uucp will be owned by uucp.

Protected files and files that are in protected directories that are owned by the requester can be sent by uucp. However, if the requester is root, and the directory is not searchable by ``other'' or the file is not readable by ``other'', the request will fail.

The forwarding of files through other systems may not be compatible with older (non-HDB) versions of uucp. If forwarding is used, all systems in the route must have the same version of uucp.

Files

/usr/spool/uucp

spool directories

/usr/spool/uucppublic/

public directory for receiving and sending

/usr/lib/uucp/

other data and program files

See also

Standards conformance

ISO/IEC DIS 99452:1992, Information technology Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) Part 2: Shell and Utilities (IEEE Std 1003.21992);
AT&T SVID Issue 2;
X/Open CAE Specification, Commands and Utilities, Issue 4, 1992.