uucp(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   uucp(1)

NAME

       uucp, uulog, uuname, uutry - UNIX system to UNIX system copy

SYNOPSIS

       [options] source_files destination_file

       number]

       system]...  number]

       debug_level]

DESCRIPTION

       copies  files  named by the source_files argument to the destination identified by the destination_file argument.  When copying files to or
       from a remote system, source_files and destination_file can be a path name on the local system, or have the form:

       where system_name is the name of a remote system in a list of system names known to When copying files to (but not from) a  remote  system,
       system_name can also be a chained list of remote system names such as:

       in which case an attempt is made to send the file, via the specified route, to the destination.	Care should be taken to ensure that inter-
       mediate nodes in the route are configured to forward information (see for restrictions).

       The shell metacharacters and appearing in path_name are expanded on the appropriate system.

       path_name can be one of:

	 o  A full path name.

	 o  A path name preceded by where user is a login name on the specified system and is replaced by that user's  login  directory.   (If	an
	    invalid login is specified, the default public directory is used instead.

	 o  A path name preceded by where destination is appended to

	    This  destination  is  treated  as	a  file  name 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, append a to the destination argument.  For example, as  the  destina-
	    tion argument causes directory to be created if it does not already exist, and places the requested file or files in that directory.

	 o  Anything else is prefixed by the current directory.

       If  an  erroneous  path name is specified for the remote system, the copy fails.  If destination_file is a directory, the file name part of
       the source_file argument is used.

       preserves execute permissions across the transmission and sets read and write permissions to 0666 (see chmod(2) and  Access  Control  Lists
       below).

   Options
       recognizes the following options:

	      Do not copy local file to the spool directory for transfer to the remote
			     machine (default).

	      Force the copy of local files to the spool directory for transfer.

	      Make all necessary directories for the file copy (default).

	      Do not make intermediate directories for the file copy.

	      grade	     is  a  single letter or number.  A lower ASCII sequence value for grade causes the job to be transmitted earlier in a
			     given conversation between systems.

	      Output the ASCII job identification string on standard output.
			     This job identification can be used by to obtain the status or terminate a job (see uustat(1)).

	      Send mail to the requester when the copy is completed.

	      Notify	     user on the remote system that a file was sent.

	      Do not start the file transfer; just queue the job.

	      Report status of the transfer to
			     file.  Note that file must be a full path name.

	      Produce debugging on standard output.
			     debug_level is a number between 0 and 9; higher numbers give more information.

   uulog
       queries a log file of transactions in a file system.

       The following options cause to print logging information:

	      Print information about work involving
			     system.

	      Do a	     (see tail(1)) of the file transfer log for system.

       Other options used in conjunction with the and options above are:

	      Search for the given system in the
			     file instead of in the log file.

	      Do a	     tail(1) command of number lines.

   uuname
       lists the names of known systems.  returns the local system's default name.

   uutry
       tests for the successful login to the remote system.  This is executed for checking communication channel.

	      Starts	     in the MASTER mode.  The default is SLAVE mode.

	      Do work only for the system specified by
			     system.  If there is no work for system on the local spool directory, initiate a connection to system to determine if
			     system has work for the local system.  This option must be used if is specified.

	      Produce debugging on standard output.
			     debug_level is a number between 0 and 9; higher numbers give more information.

       When  started by a local program, is considered the MASTER and attempts a connection to a remote system.  If is started by a remote system,
       it is considered to be in SLAVE mode.

   Access Control Lists (ACLs)
       A file's optional ACL entries are not preserved across transmission.  Instead, new files have a summary of the access modes (as returned in
       by see stat(2)).

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

   Environment Variables
       determines the format and contents of date and time strings displayed by and commands.

       determines the language in which messages are displayed by and commands.

       If is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default for each unspecified or empty vari-
       able.  If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead  of  If  any  internationalization
       variable contains an invalid setting, and behave as if all internationalization variables are set to "C".  See environ(5).

   International Code Set Support
       Single- and multibyte character code sets are supported with the exception that multibyte-character file names are not supported.

WARNINGS

       The  domain of remotely accessible files can (and for obvious security reasons, usually should) be severely restricted.	In most cases, you
       cannot fetch files by path name from a remote system.  Ask a responsible person on the remote system to send them to  you.   For  the  same
       reasons,  you  probably	cannot	send files to arbitrary path names.  As distributed, remotely accessible files are those whose names begin
       (equivalent to

       All files received by are owned by

       The option only works when sending files or when receiving a single file.  Receiving multiple files specified by special  shell	characters
       and does not activate the option.

       Protected  files  and files in protected directories owned by the requester can be sent by However, if the requester is root and the direc-
       tory is not searchable by or the file is not readable by the request fails.

       should be executed only with a request file that exists in the directory

FILES

       Configuration files

       Log and error files

       Spool directories

       Lock files

       Public directory for receiving and sending

SEE ALSO

       mail(1), uux(1), uucico(1M), chmod(2), stat(2), acl(5).

       O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. USA.

       O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. USA.

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

																	   uucp(1)