uucico Options

The following options may be given to uucico.

`-r1'

`--master'

Start in master mode: call out to a remote system. Implied by `-s', `--system', or `-S'. If no system is specified, sequentially call every system for which work is waiting to be done.

`-r0'

`--slave'

Start in slave mode. This is the default.

`-s system'

`--system system'

Call the specified system.

`-S system'

Call the specified system, ignoring any required wait. This is equivalent to `-s system -f'.

`-f'

`--force'

Ignore any required wait for any systems to be called.

`-l'

`--prompt'

Prompt for login name and password using `login: ' and `Password:'. This allows uucico to be easily run from inetd. The login name and password are checked against the UUCP password file, which need not be `/etc/passwd'. The `--login' option may be used to force a login name, in which cause uucico will only prompt for a password.

`-p port'

`--port port'

Specify a port to call out on or to listen to.

`-e'

`--loop'

Enter an endless loop of login/password prompts and slave mode daemon execution. The program will not stop by itself; you must use kill to shut it down.

`-w'

`--wait'

After calling out (to a particular system when `-s', `--system', or `-S' is specifed, or to all systems which have work when just `-r1' or `--master' is specifed), begin an endless loop as with `--loop'.

`-q'

`--nouuxqt'

Do not start the uuxqt daemon when finished.

`-c'

`--quiet'

If no calls are permitted at this time, then don't make the call, but also do not put an error message in the log file and do not update the system status (as reported by uustat). This can be convenient for automated polling scripts, which may want to simply attempt to call every system rather than worry about which particular systems may be called at the moment. This option also suppresses the log message indicating that there is no work to be done.

`-C'

`--ifwork'

Only call the system named by `-s', `--system', or `-S' if there is work for that system.

`-D'

`--nodetach'

Do not detach from the controlling terminal. Normally uucico detaches from the terminal before each call out to another system and before invoking uuxqt. This option prevents this.

`-u name'

`--login name'

Set the login name to use instead of that of the invoking user. This option may only be used by the UUCP administrator or the superuser. If used with `--prompt', this will cause uucico to prompt only for the password, not the login name.

`-z'

`--try-next'

If a call fails after the remote system is reached, try the next alternate rather than simply exiting.

`-i type'

`--stdin type'

Set the type of port to use when using standard input. The only supported port type is TLI, and this is only available on machines which support the TLI networking interface. Specifying `-i TLI' causes uucico to use TLI calls to perform I/O.

`-X type'

Same as the standard option `-x type'. Provided for historical compatibility.

`-x type'

`--debug type'

`-I file'

`--config file'

`-v'

`--version'

`--help'

See section Standard Options.

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