mn (11/01/82)
OTUXA crashed a few days ago, this caused my system (ll1) to spool over 420 UUCP jobs to them. I'm sure you are all aware of what happens when the UUCP spool directory (/usr/spool/uucp) gets very large. Mine reached 33,000+ bytes long. In desperation all jobs to otuxa and att3 were removed (a process that took over 4 hours) and the directory rebuilt. If this causes any problems on the network (mail, etc.) I hereby apologize. One idea occurred to me while I was waiting for the remove command to complete. What I needed was a "move uucp job" command that would, when given a system name, a directory, and perhaps a number of jobs, would move the jobs for that system to the target directory. That way when things get back to "normal" the jobs can be restored (a few at a time) to the spool directory and sent. The syntax of the command could be something like this: mvuujob [-n <number to move> ] system tempdir Has anyone out there created something like this? If so please contact me or send the source. Thanks in advance Mark Nettleingham ...!ihldt!ll1!mn