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 uucp(1)                                                             uucp(1)

 NAME    [Toc]    [Back]
      uucp, uulog, uuname, uutry - UNIX system to UNIX system copy

 SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]
      uucp [options] source_files destination_file

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

      uulog [-s system] ...  [-x] [-number]

      uuname [-l]

      uutry -r1 -s system [-x debug_level]

 DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]
      uucp copies files named by the source_files argument to the
      destination identified by the destination_file argument.  When copying
      files to or from a remote system, source_files and destination_file
      can be a path name on the local system, or have the form:


      where system_name is the name of a remote system in a list of system
      names known to uucp.  When copying files to (but not from) a remote
      system, system_name can also be a chained list of remote system names
      such as:


      in which 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 configured to forward information
      (see WARNINGS for restrictions).

      The shell metacharacters ?, * and [...] appearing in path_name are
      expanded on the appropriate system.

      path_name can be one of:

           +  A full path name.

           +  A path name preceded by ~user where user is a login name on
              the specified system and ~user is replaced by that user's
              login directory.  (If an invalid login is specified, the
              default public directory (/var/spool/uucppublic) is used

           +  A path name preceded by ~/destination where destination is
              appended to /var/spool/uucppublic.


 uucp(1)                                                             uucp(1)

              NOTE:  This destination is 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
              destination is a directory, append a / to the destination
              argument.  For example, ~/dan/ as the destination argument
              causes directory /var/spool/uucppublic/dan to be created if it
              does not already exist, and places the requested file or files
              in that directory.

           +  Anything else is prefixed by the current directory.

      If an erroneous path name is specified for the remote system, the copy
      fails.  If destination_file is a directory, the file-name part of the
      source_file argument is used.

      uucp preserves execute permissions across the transmission and sets
      read and write permissions to 0666 (see chmod(2) and Access Control
      Lists below).

    Options    [Toc]    [Back]
      uucp recognizes the following options:

           -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

           -f             Do not make intermediate directories for the file

           -ggrade        grade is a single letter or number.  A lower ASCII
                          sequence value for grade causes the job to be
                          transmitted earlier in a given conversation
                          between systems.

           -j             Output the ASCII job identification string on
                          standard output.  This job identification can be
                          used by uustat to obtain the status or terminate a
                          job (see uustat(1)).

           -mfile         Send mail to the requester when the copy is

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


 uucp(1)                                                             uucp(1)

           -r             Do not start the file transfer; just queue the

           -sfile         Report status of the transfer to file.  Note that
                          file must be a full path name.

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

      uulog queries a log file of uucp transactions in a file

      The following options cause uulog to print logging information:

           -s system      Print information about work involving system.

           -f system      Do a tail -f (see tail(1)) of the file transfer
                          log for system.

      Other options used in conjunction with the -s and -f options above

           -x             Search for the given system in the
                          /var/uucp/.Log/uuxqt/system file instead of in the
                          uucico log file.

           -number        Do a tail(1) command of number lines.

      uuname lists the uucp names of known systems.  uuname -l returns the
      local system's default name.

      uutry tests for the successful login to the remote system.  This is
      executed for checking communication channel.

           -r1            Starts uutry in the MASTER mode.  The default is
                          SLAVE mode.

           -s system      Do work only for the system specified by system.
                          If there is no work for system on the local spool
                          directory, initiate a connection to system to
                          determine if system has work for the local system.
                          This option must be used if -r1 is specified.

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


 uucp(1)                                                             uucp(1)

      When started by a local program, uutry is considered the MASTER and
      attempts a connection to a remote system.  If uutry is started by a
      remote system, it is considered to be in SLAVE mode.

    Access Control Lists (ACLs)    [Toc]    [Back]
      A file's optional ACL entries are not preserved across uucp
      transmission.  Instead, new files have a summary of the access modes
      (as returned in st_mode by stat(); see stat(2)).

    Environment Variables
      LC_TIME determines the format and contents of date and time strings
      displayed by uucp and uulog commands.

      LANG determines the language in which messages are displayed by uucp
      and uuname commands.

      If LC_TIME is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty
      string, the value of LANG is used as a default for each unspecified or
      empty variable.  If LANG is not specified or is set to the empty
      string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of LANG.  If
      any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, uucp,
      uulog, and uuname behave as if all internationalization variables are
      set to "C".  See environ(5).

    International Code Set Support    [Toc]    [Back]
      Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported with the
      exception that multi-byte-character file names are not supported.

 WARNINGS    [Toc]    [Back]
      The domain of remotely accessible files can (and for obvious security
      reasons, usually should) be severely restricted.  In most cases, you
      cannot fetch files by path name from a remote system.  Ask a
      responsible person on the remote system to send them to you.  For the
      same reasons, you probably cannot send files to arbitrary path names.
      As distributed, remotely accessible files are those whose names begin
      /var/spool/uucppublic (equivalent to ~/).

      All files received by uucp are owned by uucp.

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

      Protected files and files in protected directories 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 fails.

      uutry should be executed only with request file that exists in the
      directory /var/spool/uucp/system_name/.


 uucp(1)                                                             uucp(1)

 FILES    [Toc]    [Back]
      /etc/uucp                          configuration files
      /var/uucp                          log and error files
      /var/spool/uucp                    spool directories
      /var/spool/locks                   lock files
      /var/spool/uucppublic              public directory for receiving and

 SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]
      mail(1), uux(1), uucico(1M), chmod(2), stat(2), acl(5).

      Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino,
           Managing UUCP and Usenet, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. USA.

      Grace Todino and Dale Dougherty,
           Using UUCP and Usenet, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. USA.

      uucp: SVID2, SVID3, XPG2, XPG3

      uulog: SVID2, SVID3, XPG2, XPG3

      uuname: SVID2, SVID3, XPG2, XPG3

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