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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 | .\" | |
| 31265d37 | 5 | .\" @(#)uupoll.8 6.2 (Berkeley) %G% |
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6 | .\" |
| 7 | .TH UUPOLL 8C "" | |
| 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 | |
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44 | 0 0,8,16 * * * daemon /usr/bin/uupoll ihnp4 |
| 45 | 0 4,12,20 * * * daemon /usr/bin/uupoll ucbvax | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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) |