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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1986 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)uupoll.8c   6.2 (Berkeley) 7/7/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH UUPOLL 8C "July 7, 1986"
        !             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 (8C).
        !            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'/usr/spool/uucp/   'u
        !            70: .nf
        !            71: /usr/lib/uucp/ UUCP internal files/utilities
        !            72: /usr/spool/uucp/       Spool directory
        !            73: .fi
        !            74: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            75: uucp(1C), uux(1C), uucico(8C)

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