NAME

uucp, uulog − unix to unix copy

SYNOPSIS

uucp [ −C ] [ −c ] [ −d ] [ −m ] source_file ... destination_file
uulog [ −ssys ] [ −uuser ]

DESCRIPTION

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!pathname

where ‘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

(1)a full pathname;

(2)a pathname preceded by ~user/; where user is a username on the specified system and is replaced by that user’s login directory;

(3)a pathname preceded by ~/; such a pathname will be replaced by the “public uucp” directory on the remote machine;

(4)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. 

uucp preserves execute permissions across the transmission and gives 0666 read and write permissions (see chmod(2)).

uulog 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.

OPTIONS

−C Make a copy of outgoing files in the uucp spool directory, rather than copying the source file directly to the target system.  This lets you remove the source file after issuing the uucp command. 

−c Use the source file when copying out rather than copying the file to the spool directory.  This is the default. 

−d Make all necessary directories for the file copy. 

−m Send mail to the requester when the copy is complete. 

UULOG OPTIONS

−ssys Print information about work involving system sys.

−uuser
Print information about work done for the specified user.

FILES

/usr/spool/uucpspool directory
/usr/lib/uucp/∗other data and program files

SEE ALSO

uux(1C), mail(1)
Uucp Implementation Description in the Sun System Manager’s Manual. 

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. 

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. 

Sun Release 3.0β  —  Last change: 23 September 1985