HP-UX Reference (11i v2 04/09) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

uucp(1) uucp(1)

WARNINGS

The domain of remotely accessible ﬁles can (and for obvious security reasons, usually should) be severely

restricted. In most cases, you cannot fetch ﬁles by path name from a remote system. Ask a responsible

person on the remote system to send them to you. For the same reasons, you probably cannot send ﬁles to

arbitrary path names. As distributed, remotely accessible ﬁles are those whose names begin

/var/spool/uucppublic

(equivalent to ˜/).

All ﬁles received by

uucp are owned by

uucp.

The

-m option only works when sending ﬁles or when receiving a single ﬁle. Receiving multiple ﬁles

speciﬁed by special shell characters ?*[

... ] does not activate the -m option.

Protected ﬁles and ﬁles in protected directories owned by the requester can be sent by

uucp. However, if

the requester is root and the directory is not searchable by

other or the ﬁle is not readable by other,

the request fails.

uutry should be executed only with request ﬁle that exists in the directory

/var/spool/uucp/

system_name/.

FILES

/etc/uucp conﬁguration ﬁles

/var/uucp log and error ﬁles

/var/spool/uucp spool directories

/var/spool/locks

lock ﬁles

/var/spool/uucppublic

public directory for receiving and sending