Provides periodic information on the status of BNU file transfers.
uudemon.admin
The /usr/sbin/uucp/uudemon.admin command is a shell procedure that mails status information about the Basic Networking Utilities (BNU) activities to the uucp login ID at intervals specified in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file. The command executes both the uustat -p and the uustat -q commands:
Execute the uudemon.admin command at least once a day. The uudemon.admin command is not enabled when you install the BNU program. To run this command automatically, edit the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file, removing the comment character (#) from the beginning of the line that governs running the uudemon.admin command.
To run the uudemon.admin command automatically, edit the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file and remove the comment character (#) from the beginning of the uudemon.admin command line. Change:
#48 8,12,16 * * * /usr/bin/sh -c
"/usr/sbin/uucp/uudemon.admin > /dev/null"
to:
48 8, 12, 16 * * * /usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/sbin/uucp/uudemon.admin > /dev/null"
Item | Description |
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/usr/sbin/uucp/uudemon.admin | Contains the uudemon.admin command and the configuration files for BNU. |
/etc/locks/* | Contains lock files which prevent multiple uses of devices and multiple calls to systems. |
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp | Schedules BNU jobs, including the uudemon.admin command, for the cron daemon. |