''' $Id: uustat.1,v 1.1 1993/08/04 19:37:04 jtc Exp $
.TH uustat 1 "Taylor UUCP 1.04"
uustat \- UUCP status inquiry and control
command can display various types of status information about the UUCP
system. It can also be used to cancel or rejuvenate requests made by
displays all jobs queued up for the invoking user, as if given the
option with the appropriate argument.
options are given, then all jobs which match the combined
specifications are displayed.
option may be used to kill off a selected group of jobs, such as all
jobs more than 7 days old.
The following options may be given to
List all queued file transfer requests.
List queued execution requests rather than queued file transfer
requests. Queued execution requests are processed by
(8). Queued execution requests may be waiting for some file to be
transferred from a remote system. They are created by an invocation
List all jobs queued up for the named system. This option may be
specified multiple times, in which case all jobs for all the systems
List all jobs queued for systems other than the one named. This
option may be specified multiple times, in which case no jobs from any
of the specified systems will be listed. This option may not be used
List all jobs queued up for the named user. This option may be
specified multiple times, in which case all jobs for all the users
List all jobs queued up for users other than the one named. This
option may be specified multiple times, in which case no jobs from any
of the specified users will be listed. This option may not be used
List all jobs requesting the execution of the named command. If
this will list all jobs requesting the execution of some command (as
opposed to simply requesting a file transfer). This option may be
specified multiple times, in which case all jobs requesting any of the
List all jobs requesting execution of some command other than the
list all jobs that simply request a file transfer (as opposed to
requesting the execution of some command). This option may be
specified multiple times, in which case no job requesting one of the
specified commands will be listed. This option may not be used with
List all queued jobs older than the given number of hours.
List all queued jobs younger than the given number of hours.
Kill the named job. The job id is shown by the default output format,
(1). A job may only be killed by the user who created the job, or by
the UUCP administrator or the superuser. The
option may be used multiple times on the command line to kill several
Rejuvenate the named job. This will mark it as having been invoked at
the current time, affecting the output of the
options and preserving it from any automated cleanup daemon. The job
id is shown by the default output format, as well as by the
(1). A job may only be rejuvenated by the user who created the job,
or by the UUCP administrator or the superuser. The
option may be used multiple times on the command line to rejuvenate
Display the status of commands, executions and conversations for all
remote systems for which commands or executions are queued.
Display the status of conversations for all remote systems.
Display the status of all processes holding UUCP locks on systems or
For each listed job, prompt whether to kill the job or not. If the
first character of the input line is
Automatically kill each listed job. This can be useful for automatic
cleanup scripts, in conjunction with the
For each listed job, send mail to the UUCP administrator. If the job
with an affirmative response) the mail will indicate that. A comment
option may be included. If the job is an execution, the initial
portion of its standard input will be included in the mail message;
the number of lines to include may be set with the
option (the default is 100). If the standard input contains null
characters, it is assumed to be a binary file and is not included.
For each listed job, send mail to the user who requested the job. The
mail is identical to that sent by the
Specify a comment to be included in mail sent with the
Do not actually list the job, but only take any actions indicated by
Turn on particular debugging types. The following types are
recognized: abnormal, chat, handshake, uucp-proto, proto, port,
config, spooldir, execute, incoming, outgoing. Only abnormal, config,
spooldir and execute are meaningful for
Multiple types may be given, separated by commas, and the
option may appear multiple times. A number may also be given, which
will turn on that many types from the foregoing list; for example,
Set configuration file to use. This option may not be available,
Display status of all jobs. A sample output line is as follows:
bugsA027h bugs ian 04-01 13:50 Executing rmail ian@airs.com (sending 1283 bytes)
jobid system user queue-date command (size)
The jobid may be passed to the
The size indicates how much data is to be transferred to the remote
system, and is absent for a file receive request.
options may be used to control which jobs are listed.
Display status of queued up execution requests. A sample output line
bugs bugs!ian 05-20 12:51 rmail ian
system requestor queue-date command
options may be used to control which requests are listed.
Display status for all systems with queued up commands. A sample
output line is as follows:
bugs 4C (1 hour) 0X (0 secs) 04-01 14:45 Dial failed
This indicates the system, the number of queued commands, the age of
the oldest queued command, the number of queued local executions, the
age of the oldest queued execution, the date of the last conversation,
and the status of that conversation.
Display conversation status for all remote systems. A sample output
bugs 04-01 15:51 Conversation complete
This indicates the system, the date of the last conversation, and the
status of that conversation. If the last conversation failed,
will indicate how many attempts have been made to call the system. If
the retry period is currently preventing calls to that system,
also displays the time when the next call will be permitted.
Display the status of all processes holding UUCP locks. The output
format is system dependent, as
(1) on each process holding a lock.
uustat -c rmail -o 168 -K -Q -M -N -W"Queued for over 1 week"
commands that have been queued up waiting for delivery for over 1 week
(168 hours). For each such command, mail will be sent both to the
UUCP administrator and to the user who requested the rmail execution.
The mail message sent will include the string given by the
option prevents any of the jobs from being listed on the terminal, so
any output from the program will be error messages.
The file names may be changed at compilation time or by the
configuration file, so these are only approximations.
/usr/lib/uucp/config - Configuration file.
ps(1), rmail(1), uucp(1), uux(1), uucico(8), uuxqt(8)
(ian@airs.com or uunet!airs!ian)
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