[net.unix-wizards] UUCP question

shawn%mit-dspg@BRL.ARPA (11/18/83)

I have the following wishes for uucp:

	1)	to be able to print what's queued, in a reasonable
		way, and to be able to know what's going where,
		and how big it is. (without doing an ls /usr/spool/uucp).
	2)	to be able to cancel a request, without haveing to
		use grep, cat, and rm.
	3)	to be able to have something to run at night, as a
		batch daemon, (run by say, cron), and warn me of
		any errors uucp had during the day, and mail me
		the error string.

If this has been done, or any of the above has been done, I would
be VERY happy to be alerted to it. (and very thankful). Else, in
a fiew weeks, I will set apon the tasks myself.

			Thanks In advance,
			  -Shawn

BostonU SysMgr <root%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa> (02/11/85)

We don't use UUCP much so I might be missing something here,
apologies:

We have a hard-wire between two machines and it seems like it
would make sense if it just were always open rather than either
having one side 'call' in or hack something to get alternate
login shells on either side as desired etc. Perusing the code,
it seems to me that uucp may not be robust enough to do this as
written: 1) Something reasonable would have to happen when one side
really went down 2) New work entering the queue would have to wake
up uucico to start sending. Am I just missing something that's
there?

	-Barry Shein, Boston University