10-09-2012
Usually, the defaults are fine until you start debugging a problem. You can turn everything on for a new file for a limited time, and see what you do not want, turn that off and try again. Syslog is used by any application that thinks it is appropriate, but usually daemons of some sort, so it can be hard to generalize. Some tags are explicitly for detailed debug messages.
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uusched
uusched(1M) System Administration Commands uusched(1M)
NAME
uusched - uucp file transport program scheduler
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/uucp/uusched [-u debug-level] [-x debug-level]
DESCRIPTION
uusched is the uucp(1C) file transport scheduler. It is usually started by the daemon uudemon.hour that is started by cron(1M) from an
entry in user uucp's crontab file:
11,41 * * * * /etc/uucp/uucp/uudemon.hour
OPTIONS
The options are for debugging purposes only. debug-level is a number between 0 and 9. Higher numbers give more detailed debugging infor-
mation:
The following options are supported:
-u debug-level Passes the -u debug-level option uucico(1M) as -x debug-level.
-x debug-level Outputs debugging messages from uusched.
FILES
/etc/uucp/Devices
/etc/uucp/Permissions
/etc/uucp/Systems
/var/spool/locks/*
/var/spool/uucp/*
/var/spool/uucppublic/*
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWbnuu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
uucp(1C), uustat(1C), uux(1C), cron(1M), uucico(1M), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 19 May 1993 uusched(1M)