NAME

uucp, uulog, uuname - UNIX-to-UNIX system copy

SYNOPSIS

uucp [ options ] source-files destination-file
uulog [ options ] system
uuname [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

uucp

uucp copies files named by the source-file arguments to the destination-file argument. A source file name may be a patname 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 destination system-name may also include a list of system names such as

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. Care should be taken to ensure that intermediate nodes in the route are willing to forward information (see NOTES below for restrictions).

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

Path names may be one of:

(1) a full pathname;

(2) a pathname preceded by ~user where user is a login name on the specified system and is replaced by that user's login directory;

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

(4) anything else is prefixed by the current directory.

If the result is an erroneous pathname for the remote system, the copy will fail. If the destination-file is a directory, the last part of the source-file name is used.

uucp removes execute permissions across the transmission and gives 0666 read and write permissions (see chmod(2)).

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.

-ggrade grade can be either a single letter/number or a string of alphanumeric characters defining a service grade. The uuglist command can determine whether it is appropriate to use the single letter/number or a string of alphanumeric characters as a service grade. The output from the uuglist command will be a list of service grades that are available or a message that says to use a single letter/number as a grade of service.

-j Output the uucp job identification string on the standard output. This job identification can be used by uustat to obtain the status of a uucp job or to terminate a uucp job. It is valid as long as the job remains queued on the local system.

-m Send mail to the requester when the copy is completed.

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

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

-sfile Report status of the transfer to file. This option overrides the -m option.

-xdebug_level

Produce debugging output on standard output. debug_level is a number between 0 and 9; as it increases to 9, more detailed debugging information is given. This option may not be available on all systems.

uulog

uulog queries a log file of uucp or uuxqt transactions in file /var/uucp/.Log/uucico/system or /var/uucp/.Log/uuxqt/system.

These options cause uulog to print logging information:

-ssys Print information about file transfer work involving system sys.

-fsystem Does a "tail -f" of the file transfer log for system. (You must hit BREAK to exit this function.)

Other options used in conjunction with the above options are:

-x Look in the uuxqt log file for the given system.

-number Indicates that a "tail" command of number lines should be executed.

uuname

uuname lists the names of systems known to uucp. uuname recognizes the following options:

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

-l Return the local system name.

FILES

/var/spool/uucpspool directories
/var/spool/uucppublic/*public directory for receiving and
               sending
/usr/lib/uucp/*other program files
/etc/uucp/*    other data files

SEE ALSO

mail(1), uuglist(1C), uustat(1C), uux(1C), uuxqt(1M).
chmod(2) in the Programmer's Reference Manual.

NOTES

For security reasons, the domain of remotely accessible files may be severely restricted. You will very likely not be able to access files by pathname; ask a responsible person on the remote system to send them to you. For the same reasons you will probably not be able to send files to arbitrary pathnames. As distributed, the remotely accessible files are those whose names begin /var/spool/uucppublic (equivalent to ~/).

All files received by uucp will be owned by uucp.
The -m option will only work sending files  or  receiving  a
single  file.  Receiving multiple files specified by special
shell characters ? * [...] will not activate the -m  option.
The  forwarding  of  files  through other systems may not be
compatible with the previous version of uucp.  If forwarding
is  used, all systems in the route must have compatible ver-
sions of uucp.

NOTES

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.