uucp(C) 19 June 1992 uucp(C) Name uucp, uulog, uuname - UNIX-to-UNIX system copy Syntax uucp [ -c | -C ] [ -d | -f ] [ -ggrade ] [ -j ] [ -m ] [ -nuser ] [ -r ] [ -sfile ] [ -xdebuglevel ] source-files destination-file uulog [ -ssystem ] [ -x ] uulog -fsystem [ -number ] [ -x ] uuname [ -l ] [ -c ] Description The uucp command copies files named by the source-file arguments to the destination-file argument. A filename may be a pathname 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 system-name may also be a list of names such as system-name!system-name!...!system-name!pathname in which case an attempt is made to send the file via the specified route, to the destination. See ``Notes'' below for restrictions. Care should be taken to ensure that intermediate nodes in the route are wil- ling to forward information. The shell metacharacters ``?'', ``*'' and [ ... ] appearing in pathname will be expanded on the appropriate system. Pathnames 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 /usr/spool/uucppublic; this destination will be treated as a filename 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, follow the destination with a ``/'' For example, ~/dan/ as the destina- tion will make the directory /usr/spool/uucppublic/dan if it does not exist and put the requested file(s) in that directory. 4. anything else, which gets 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. If a simple ~user destination is inaccessible to uucp, data is copied to a spool directory and the user is notified by mail(C). uucp preserves execute permissions across the transmission and gives 0666 read and write permissions (see chmod(C)). 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 is a single letter/number; lower ASCII sequence charac- ters will cause the job to be transmitted earlier during a par- ticular conversation. -j Print the job identification ASCII string on standard output. 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. The -m option will only work when sending files or receiving a single file. Receiving multiple files specified by special shell characters ``?'', ``*'', [ ... ] will not activate the -m option. -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. Note that the file must be a full pathname. -xdebuglevel Produce debugging output on standard output. The debuglevel is a number between 0 and 9; higher numbers give more detailed information. uulog queries a log file of uucp or uuxqt(ADM) transactions in a file /usr/spool/uucp/.Log/uucico/system, or /usr/spool/uucp/.Log/uuxqt/system. The options cause uulog to print logging information: -ssystem Print information about file transfer work involving system system. -fsystem Does a tail -f of the file transfer log for system. (You must press DELETE or BREAK to exit this function.) Other options used in conjunction with the above: -x Look in the uuxqt log file for the given system, instead of the uucico log file (default). -number Indicates that a tail command of number lines should be exe- cuted. uuname lists the names of systems known to uucp. The -c option 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 sysfiles(F).) 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 See also chmod(S), mail(C), sysfiles(F), uustat(C), uux(C), uuxqt(ADM) Notes The domain of remotely accessible files can (and for obvious security reasons, usually should) be severely restricted. You may be unable to fetch files by pathname; ask a responsible person on the remote system to send them to you. For the same reasons, you may not be able to send files to arbitrary pathnames. 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. 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. The forwarding of files through other systems may not be compatible with older (non-HDB) versions of uucp. If forwarding is used, all systems in the route must have the same version of uucp. Standards conformance uucp, uulog, and uuname are conformant with: AT&T SVID Issue 2; and X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 3, 1989.