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From: vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uux sending mail on success
Message-ID: <3510@palo-alto.DEC.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 88 18:38:29 GMT
References: <172@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Organization: DEC Western Research Lab
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In article <172@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mrw@rex.UUCP (Marilyn Wulfekuhler) writes:
# When feeding another site 'spike', upon successful delivery of each batch of 
# news, I get a mail message from spike!uucp telling me that uux completed 
# normally.  We are a pyramid 90x running OSx 4.0 (BSD universe) and news 2.11,
# patchlevel 14.  

All UUCPs were not created equal.  It doesn't matter much what UUCP you are
running; your neighbors' uuxqt daemon will either respect your wishes about
mailing of thank-you notes or it will not.

Rick Adams' BSD UUCP and Honeyman's HDB UUCP will respect their neighbors'
-n (don't send any mail no matter what) and -z (send mail only if the remote
command execution returns an error exit status).  Sys-III UUCP will not
respect either request.  Sys-Vr2 (pre-HDB) respects -n but not -z.

-n and -z are arguments to the uux command you use to queue a batch to your
neighbor; they do into one of the control-card files sent by UUCP to the
remote system, and the remote system will either know about them or not.

Ultrix UUCP, by the way, knows about -n but not about -z.  :-(.

Note: not the opinions of my employer.

-- 
Paul Vixie
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