UUCP(1C) — Silicon Graphics
NAME
uucp, uulog, uuname − unix to unix copy
SYNOPSIS
uucp [ options ] source-files destination-file
uulog [ options ]
uuname [ −l ]
DESCRIPTION
Uucp.
Uucp 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!path-name
where system-name is taken from a list of system names which uucp knows about. The system-name may also be a list of names such as
system-name!system-name!...!system-name!path-name
in which case an attempt is made to send the file via the specified route, and only to a destination in PUBDIR (see below). Care should be taken to insure that intermediate nodes in the route are willing to forward information.
The shell metacharacters ?, ∗ and [...] appearing in path-name will be expanded on the appropriate system.
Path names may be one of:
(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 ~/user where user is a login name on the specified system and is replaced by that user’s directory under PUBDIR;
(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-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(1).
Uucp preserves execute permissions across the transmission and gives 0666 read and write permissions (see chmod(2)).
The following options are interpreted by uucp:
−d Make all necessary directories for the file copy (default).
−f Do not make intermediate directories for the file copy.
−c Use the source file when copying out rather than copying the file to the spool directory (default).
−C Copy the source file to the spool directory.
−mfile Report status of the transfer in file. If file is omitted, send mail to the requester when the copy is completed.
−nuser Notify user on the remote system that a file was sent.
−esys Send the uucp command to system sys to be executed there. (Note: this will only be successful if the remote machine allows the uucp command to be executed by /usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt.)
Uucp returns on the standard output a string which is the job number of the request. This job number can be used by uustat to obtain status or terminate the job.
Uulog.
Uulog queries a summary log of uucp and uux(1C) transactions in the file /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE.
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.
Uuname.
Uuname lists the uucp names of known systems. The −l option returns the local system name.
EXAMPLE
uucp file1 green! /usr/spool/uucppublic/file2
sends "file1" from the local machine, via the uucp network, to the "green" machine, where it is saved as file "/usr/spool/uucppublic/file2".
FILES
/usr/spool/uucp spool directory
/usr/spool/uucppublic public directory for receiving and sending (PUBDIR)
/usr/lib/uucp/∗ other data and program files
SEE ALSO
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 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 ~uucp or just ~ ).
BUGS
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.
Version 3.6 — December 20, 1987