1.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)uupoll.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/06/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt UUPOLL 8 10.Os BSD 4.3 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm uupoll 13.Nd poll a remote 14.Tn UUCP 15site 16.Sh SYNOPSIS 17.Nm uupoll 18.Op Fl g Ns Ar grade 19.Op Fl n 20.Ar system 21.Sh DESCRIPTION 22.Nm Uupoll 23is used to force a poll of a remote system. It queues a null job for the 24remote system and then invokes 25.Xr uucico 8 . 26.Pp 27The following options are available: 28.Bl -tag -width Fl 29.It Fl g Ns Ar grade 30Only send jobs of grade 31.Ar grade 32or higher on this call. 33.It Fl n 34Queue the null job, but do not invoke 35.Xr uucico . 36.El 37.Pp 38.Nm Uupoll 39is usually run by 40.Xr cron 5 41or by a user who wants to hurry a job along. A typical entry in 42.Em crontab 43could be: 44.Bd -literal 450 0,8,16 * * * daemon /usr/bin/uupoll ihnp4 460 4,12,20 * * * daemon /usr/bin/uupoll ucbvax 47.Ed 48.Pp 49This will poll 50.Em ihnp4 51at midnight, 0800, and 1600, and 52.Em ucbvax 53at 0400, noon, and 2000. 54.Pp 55If the local machine is already running 56.Xr uucico 57every 58hour and has a limited number of outgoing modems, a more elegant approach 59might be: 60.Bd -literal 610 0,8,16 * * * daemon /usr/bin/uupoll -n ihnp4 620 4,12,20 * * * daemon /usr/bin/uupoll -n ucbvax 635 * * * * daemon /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 64.Ed 65.Pp 66This will queue null jobs for the remote sites at the top of hour; they 67will be processed by 68.Xr uucico 69when it runs five minutes later. 70.Sh FILES 71.Bl -tag -width /usr/lib/uucp/UUCP -compact 72.It Pa /usr/lib/uucp/UUCP 73internal files/utilities 74.It Pa /var/spool/uucp/ 75Spool directory 76.El 77.Sh SEE ALSO 78.Xr uucp 1 , 79.Xr uux 1 , 80.Xr uucico 8 81.Sh HISTORY 82The 83.Nm 84command appeared in 85.Bx 4.3 . 86