poll(4) [osf1 man page]

Poll(4) 						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							   Poll(4)

NAME

       Poll - Contains information specifying when the UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program (UUCP) should poll designated remote computers

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/uucp/Poll

DESCRIPTION

       The  /usr/lib/uucp/Poll	file  contains information for polling remote computers. Each entry in the Poll file contains the name of a remote
       computer to call, followed by a <TAB> character, and a sequence of hourly intervals expressed in digits. These are the hourly intervals	at
       which the local system polls a remote system; you must specify interval times as digits between 0 and 23. The format of entries in the Poll
       file is: sys-name<TAB>hour

       Note that you must be logged in as root to edit the Poll file, which is owned by the uucp login ID.

       The Poll file is used with the crontabs/uucp file, the uudemon.hour script, and the uudemon.poll script.  Together, these files are respon-
       sible for initiating automatic calls to remote systems to perform certain maintenance tasks.

EXAMPLES

       The  following  example provides polling of computer eagle every 4 hours: eagle	   0 4 8 12 16 20 The follwing example provides polling of
       computer hera every hour: hera 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

FILES

       Contains all the configuration files for UUCP, including the Devices file.  Describes accessible remote systems.  Initiates file  transport
       calls  to  remote  systems.  Polls remote systems listed in /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file.  The uucp file that contains instructions for the cron
       daemon.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: crontab(1)

       Daemons: cron(8) delim off

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uudemon(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							uudemon(4)

NAME

       uudemon.admin,  uudemon.cleanu,	uudemon.hour,  uudemon.poll  -	Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool
       directories, reporting status to the system administrator, and routine invocations of the uuxqt and uusched daemons

SYNOPSIS

       These shell scripts reside in the following directory:
	  /usr/lib/uucp

DESCRIPTION

       All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the  scripts,  remove
       the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file.

       This  script  reports  status  to  the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the
       results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID  (uucpa)	or
       root.  This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com-
       mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1.  This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background.  This
       script  polls  the  systems  listed  in	the  /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file.  The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour
       script. This allows uudemon.poll to create any command files before cron runs the uudemon.hour script.

FILES

       Contains the uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour and uudemon.poll files.  Contains the uucp file.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: cron(8), uucleanup(8), uusched(8), uuxqt(1)

       Files: /usr/lib/uucp delim off

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