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NAME
uucp, uulog, uuname - unix to unix remote file copy
SYNOPSIS
uucp [ options ] source ... destination
uulog [ options ] [ system ]
or
uuname [ -l ]
DESCRIPTION
Uucp.
Uucp copies source files to the destination file or directory. A file
name may be a path name on your machine, or may have the form:
system-name!path-name
where system-name is taken from a list of system names that uucp knows
about. System-name may also be a chain of names such as
system-name!system-name!...!system-name!path-name
in which case an attempt is made to send via the specified route. Care
should be taken to ensure that intermediate nodes in the route are
willing to foward information.
Quoted shell metacharacters ?, ∗ and [ ] appearing in a remote path-
name will be expanded on the appropriate system.
Path names may be:
(1) a full path name;
(2) a path name preceded by ~user where user is a login name
on the specified system and is replaced by that user's
login directory;
(3) a path name preceded by ~/destination where destination
is appended to `/usr/spool/uucppublic/'; The destination
will be treated as a file name unless more than one file
is being transfered by this request or the destination is
already a directory or the destination ends with `/'.
For example, ~/dan/ as the destination will make the di‐
rectory /usr/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 path name for the remote system the copy
will fail. If the destination is a directory, the last part of the
source-file name is used.
Uucp preserves execute permissions across the transmission and gives
0666 read and write permissions (see chmod(2)).
The following options are interpreted by uucp:
-c Don't 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 trans‐
fer.
-d Make all necessary directories for the file copy (default).
-f Do not make intermediate directories for the file copy.
-ggrade
Grade is a single letter/number; lower ASCII sequence characters
will cause the job to be transmitted earlier during a particular
conversation.
-j Output the job identification ASCII string on the standard out‐
put. 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.
-sfile Report status of the transfer to file.
-nuser Notify user on the remote system that a file was sent.
-r Don't start the file transfer, just queue the job.
-xdebug-level
Produce debugging output. The debug_level is a number between 0
and 9; higher numbers give more detailed information.
Uulog.
Uulog queries a log file of uucp or uuxqt transactions, optionally lim‐
ited to a given system. Its options are
-f Print recent transactions and follow further transactions as
they occur.
-x Look in the uuxqt log file for the given system.
-number
Print the last number transactions.
Uuname.
Uuname lists the uucp names of known systems. The -l option returns
the local system name.
FILES
/usr/spool/uucp spool directories
/usr/spool/uucppublic public directory for receiving and
sending
/usr/lib/uucp/∗ other data and program files
/usr/spool/uucp/.Log/uuxqt/system log of uuxqt transactions with sys‐
tem
/usr/spool/uucp/.Log/uucico/system log of uucp transactions with system
SEE ALSO
mail(1), uux(1)
WARNING
For obvious security reasons, the domain of remotely accessible files
may be severely restricted. You will very likely not be able to fetch
files by path name; 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 path names. As distributed, the remotely
accessible files are those whose names begin `/usr/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 is NOT compatible with
the previous version of uucp. If forwarding is used, all systems in
the route must have the same version of uucp.
BUGS
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 group `other' or the
file is not readable by `other', the request will fail due to a bug in
setuid(2).
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