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@(#)uupoll.8 6.4 (Berkeley) 06/24/90

C 6 uupoll - poll a remote \s-1UUCP\s+1 site uupoll [ -g grade ] [ -n ] system Uupoll is used to force a poll of a remote system. It queues a null job for the remote system and then invokes uucico (8).

The following options are available:

8 -g grade Only send jobs of grade grade or higher on this call.

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

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

/usr/lib/uucp/ UUCP internal files/utilities
/var/spool/uucp/ Spool directory

uucp(1), uux(1), uucico(8)