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uupoll - poll a remote UUCP site

uupoll [ -ggrade ] [ -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.8c

The following options are available:

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.

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