NAME

uucleanup − uucp spool directory clean-up

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/uucp/uucleanup [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

uucleanup will scan the spool directories for old files and take appropriate action to remove them in a useful way:

Inform the requester of send/receive requests for systems that cannot be reached.  Return undeliverable mail to the sender. Deliver rnews files addressed to the local system.  Remove all other files.

In addition, there is a provision to warn users of requests that have been waiting for a given number of days (default 1).  Note that uucleanup will process as if all option times were specified to the default values unless time is specifically set. 

The following options are available. 

−Ctime Any C. files greater or equal to time days old will be removed with appropriate information to the requester.  (Default 7 days.) 

−Dtime Any D. files greater or equal to time days old will be removed.  An attempt will be made to deliver mail messages and execute rnews when appropriate.  (Default 7 days.) 

−Wtime Any C. files equal to time days old will cause a mail message to be sent to the requester warning about the delay in contacting the remote.  The message includes the JOBID, and in the case of mail, the mail message.  The administrator may include a message line telling whom to call to check the problem (−m option).  (Default 1 day.) 

−Xtime Any X. files greater or equal to time days old will be removed.  The D. files are probably not present (if they were, the X. could get executed).  But if there are D. files, they will be taken care of by D. processing.  (Default 2 days.) 

−mstring Include string in the warning message generated by the −W option.  Characters from supplementary code sets can be used for the warning message contained in string. 

−otime Other files whose age is more than time days will be deleted.  (Default 2 days.)  The default line is See your local administrator to locate the problem. 

−ssystem Execute for system spool directory only. 

−xdebug_level
The −x debug level is a single digit between 0 and 9; higher numbers give more detailed debugging information.  (This option may not be available on all systems.) 

This program is typically started by the shell uudemon.cleanup, which should be started by cron(1M). 

FILES

/usr/lib/uucp directory with commands used by uucleanup internally

/var/spool/uucp spool directory

SEE ALSO

cron(1M), uucp(1C), uux(1C). 

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