UUPOLL

Section: Maintenance Commands (8C)
Updated: April 24, 1986
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NAME

uupoll - poll a remote UUCP site

SYNOPSIS

uupoll [ -ggrade ] [ -n ] system

DESCRIPTION

Uupoll is used to force a poll of a remote system. It queues a null job for the remote system and then invokes uucico(8C).

The following options are available:

-ggrade: Only send jobs of grade grade or higher on this call.
-n: Queue the null job, but do not invoke uucico.

Uupoll is usually run by cron(5) or by a user who wants to hurry a job along. A typical entry in crontab could be:

        0       0,8,16  *       *       *       uucp /usr/bin/uupoll ihnp4
        0       4,12,20 *       *       *       uucp /usr/bin/uupoll ucbvax

This will poll ihnp4 at midnight, 0800, and 1600, and ucbvax at 0400, noon, and 2000.

If the local machine is already running uucico every hour and has a limited number of outgoing modems, a more elegant approach might be:

        0       0,8,16  *       *       *       uucp /usr/bin/uupoll -n ihnp4
        0       4,12,20 *       *       *       uucp /usr/bin/uupoll -n ucbvax
        5       *               *       *       *       uucp /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1

This will queue null jobs for the remote sites at the top of the hour; they will be processed by uucico when it runs five minutes later.

FILES

/etc/uucp/         UUCP internal files/utilities
/usr/spool/uucp/   Spool directory