uucp(1c)
NAME
uucp, uulog − unix to unix copy
SYNTAX
uucp [ option... ] source-file... destination-file
uulog [ option... ]
DESCRIPTION
The uucp command copies files named by the source-file arguments to the destination-file argument. A file name may be a path name on your machine, or may have the form
system-name!pathname
The system-name is taken from a list of system names which uucp knows about. Shell metacharacters ?*[] appearing in the pathname part will be expanded on the appropriate system.
Pathnames may be one of:
•Full pathname
•Pathname preceded by ~user; where user is a user ID on the specified system and is replaced by that user’s login directory
•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.
The uucp program preserves execute permissions across the transmission and gives 0666 read and write permissions. For further information, see chmod(2).
The following options are interpreted by uucp.
−d Make all necessary directories for the file copy.
−c Use the source file when copying out rather than copying the file to the spool directory.
−m Send mail to the requester when the copy is complete.
The uulog command maintains a summary log of uucp and uux transactions in the file /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE by gathering information from partial log files named /usr/spool/uucp/LOG.*.?. It removes the partial log files.
The options cause uulog to print logging information:
−ssys Print information about work involving system sys.
−uuser
Print information about work done for the specified user.
WARNING
The domain of remotely accessible files can, and for obvious security reasons, usually should be severely restricted. You will very likely not be able to fetch 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.
RESTRICTIONS
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.
FILES
/usr/spool/uucp - spool directory
/usr/lib/uucp/* - other data and program files