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                      5: .\"    @(#)uupoll.8    6.4 (Berkeley) 6/24/90
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH UUPOLL 8 "June 24, 1990"
                      8: .UC 6
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: uupoll \- poll a remote \s-1UUCP\s+1 site
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B uupoll
                     13: [
                     14: .BI \-g grade
                     15: ] [
                     16: .B \-n
                     17: ]
                     18: .I system
                     19: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     20: .I Uupoll
                     21: is used to force a poll of a remote system. It queues a null job for the
                     22: remote system and then invokes
                     23: .IR uucico (8).
                     24: .PP
                     25: The following options are available:
                     26: .TP 8
                     27: .BI \-g grade
                     28: Only send jobs of grade
                     29: .I grade
                     30: or higher on this call.
                     31: .TP 8
                     32: .B \-n
                     33: Queue the null job, but do not invoke
                     34: .IR uucico .
                     35: .PP
                     36: .I Uupoll
                     37: is usually run by
                     38: .IR cron (5)
                     39: or by a user who wants to hurry a job along. A typical entry in
                     40: .I crontab
                     41: could be:
                     42: .PP
                     43: .nf
                     44:        0       0,8,16  *       *       *       daemon  /usr/bin/uupoll ihnp4
                     45:        0       4,12,20 *       *       *       daemon  /usr/bin/uupoll ucbvax
                     46: .fi
                     47: This will poll
                     48: .B ihnp4
                     49: at midnight, 0800, and 1600, and
                     50: .B ucbvax
                     51: at 0400, noon, and 2000.
                     52: .PP
                     53: If the local machine is already running
                     54: .I uucico
                     55: every
                     56: hour and has a limited number of outgoing modems, a more elegant approach
                     57: might be:
                     58: .PP
                     59: .nf
                     60:        0       0,8,16  *       *       *       daemon  /usr/bin/uupoll -n ihnp4
                     61:        0       4,12,20 *       *       *       daemon  /usr/bin/uupoll -n ucbvax
                     62:        5               *       *       *       *       daemon  /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1
                     63: .fi
                     64: This will queue null jobs for the remote sites at the top of hour; they
                     65: will be processed by
                     66: .I uucico
                     67: when it runs five minutes later.
                     68: .SH FILES
                     69: .ta \w'/var/spool/uucp/   'u
                     70: .nf
                     71: /usr/lib/uucp/ UUCP internal files/utilities
                     72: /var/spool/uucp/       Spool directory
                     73: .fi
                     74: .SH SEE ALSO
                     75: uucp(1), uux(1), uucico(8)

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