Annotation of cci/usr/src/man/man1/uucp.1c, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: .TH UUCP 1C "18 January 1983"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: uucp, uulog \- unix to unix copy
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B uucp
                      7: [ option ] ...
                      8: source-file ...  destination-file
                      9: .PP
                     10: .B uulog
                     11: [ option ] ...
                     12: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     13: .I Uucp
                     14: copies files named by the source-file arguments
                     15: to the destination-file argument.
                     16: A file name may be a path name on your machine, or may 
                     17: have the form
                     18: .IP
                     19: system-name!pathname
                     20: .LP
                     21: where `system-name' is taken from a list of system names
                     22: which
                     23: .I uucp
                     24: knows about.
                     25: Shell metacharacters ?*[] appearing in the pathname part
                     26: will be expanded on the appropriate system.
                     27: .PP
                     28: Pathnames may be one of
                     29: .IP (1)
                     30: a full pathname;
                     31: .IP (2)
                     32: a pathname preceded by
                     33: .IR ~user ;
                     34: where
                     35: .I user
                     36: is a userid on the specified system
                     37: and is replaced by that user's login directory;
                     38: .IP (3)
                     39: anything else is prefixed by the current directory.
                     40: .PP
                     41: If the result is an erroneous pathname for the remote system
                     42: the copy will fail.
                     43: If the destination-file is a directory, the last part of the
                     44: source-file name is used.
                     45: .ig
                     46: If a simple
                     47: .I ~user
                     48: destination is inaccessible to 
                     49: .I uucp,
                     50: data is copied to a spool directory and the user
                     51: is notified by
                     52: .IR mail (1).
                     53: ..
                     54: .PP
                     55: .I Uucp
                     56: preserves execute permissions across the transmission
                     57: and gives 0666 read and write permissions (see
                     58: .IR chmod (2)).
                     59: .PP
                     60: The following options are interpreted by
                     61: .IR uucp .
                     62: .TP 
                     63: .B \-d
                     64: Make all necessary directories for the file copy.
                     65: .TP 
                     66: .B \-c
                     67: Use the source file when copying out rather than
                     68: copying the file to the spool directory.
                     69: .TP 
                     70: .B \-m
                     71: Send mail to the requester when the copy is complete.
                     72: .PP
                     73: .I Uulog
                     74: maintains a summary log
                     75: of 
                     76: .I uucp
                     77: and
                     78: .IR uux (1C)
                     79: transactions in the file
                     80: `/usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE' by gathering
                     81: information from partial log files named `/usr/spool/uucp/LOG.*.?'.
                     82: It removes the partial log files.
                     83: .PP
                     84: The options cause 
                     85: .I uulog 
                     86: to print logging information:
                     87: .TP
                     88: .BI \-s sys
                     89: Print information about work involving system
                     90: .I sys.
                     91: .TP
                     92: .BI \-u user
                     93: Print information about work done for the specified
                     94: .I user.
                     95: .SH FILES
                     96: /usr/spool/uucp - spool directory
                     97: .br
                     98: /usr/lib/uucp/* - other data and program files
                     99: .SH SEE ALSO
                    100: uux(1C), mail(1)
                    101: .br
                    102: D. A. Nowitz,
                    103: .I Uucp Implementation Description
                    104: .SH WARNING
                    105: The domain of remotely accessible files can
                    106: (and for obvious security reasons, usually should)
                    107: be severely restricted.
                    108: You will very likely not be able to fetch files
                    109: by pathname;
                    110: ask a responsible person on the remote system to
                    111: send them to you.
                    112: For the same reasons you will probably not be able
                    113: to send files to arbitrary pathnames.
                    114: .SH BUGS
                    115: .br
                    116: All files received by
                    117: .I uucp
                    118: will be owned by uucp.
                    119: .br
                    120: The \-m option will only work sending files or receiving
                    121: a single file.
                    122: (Receiving multiple files specified by special shell
                    123: characters ?*[] will not activate
                    124: the \-m option.)

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