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NAME
uucp, uulog - unix to unix copy
SYNOPSIS
uucp [ option ] ... source-file ... destination-file
uulog [ option ] ...
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 userid on
the specified system and is replaced by that user's
login directory;
(3) 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)).
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 copy-
ing the file to the spool directory.
-m Send mail to the requester when the copy is complete.
Uulog maintains a summary log of uucp and uux(1) transac-
tions in the file `/usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE' by gathering
information from partial log files named
`/usr/spool/uucp/LOG.*.?'. It removes the partial log
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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.
FILES
/usr/spool/uucp - spool directory
/usr/lib/uucp/* - other data and program files
SEE ALSO
uux(1), mail(1)
D. A. Nowitz, Uucp Implementation Description
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.)