Log(4)Log(4)NAME
Log, .Log - Contains the uucp program log files
SYNOPSIS
/usr/spool/uucp/.Log
DESCRIPTION
The /usr/spool/uucp/.Log directories contain uucp program log files.
The uucp program normally places status information about each transac‐
tion in the appropriate log file each time you use the networking util‐
ities facility. All transactions of the uucico and uuxqt daemons are
logged in files named for the remote system concerned. The files are
stored in a subdirectory of the /usr/spool/uucp/.Log directory named
for the daemon involved. Thus, the log files are named with a form of
the following: /usr/spool/uucp/.Log/DaemonName/SystemName
The uucp and uuto commands call the uucico daemon. The uucico daemon
activities for a particular remote system are logged in the SystemName
file in the /usr/spool/uucp/.Log/uucico directory on the local system.
The uux and uusend commands call the uuxqt daemon. The uuxqt daemon
activities for a particular remote system are logged in the SystemName
file in the /usr/spool/uucp/.Log/uuxqt directory on the local system.
When more than one uucp process is running, however, the system cannot
access the standard log file, so it places the status information in a
file with a prefix that covers just the single transaction.
The uucp program can automatically append the temporary log files to a
primary log file. This is called compacting the log files, and is han‐
dled by the uudemon.cleanu command, a shell procedure, which combines
the log files of the activities of the uucico and uuxqt daemons on a
system and stores them in the /usr/spool/uucp/.Old directory.
The default is for the uudemon.cleanu command to save log files that
are 2 days old. This default can be changed by modifying the appropri‐
ate line in the shell script. If storage space is a problem on a par‐
ticular system, reduce the number of days that the files are kept in
the individual log files.
The uulog command can be used to view the uucp program log files.
SEE ALSO
Daemons: cron, uucico(8), uusched(8)
Commands: uucp(1), uudemon.cleanu(4), uulog(1), uusend(1), uuto(1),
uux(1)Log(4)