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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: A question about uucp and another about mail
Message-ID: <750@twwells.uucp>
Date: 5 Mar 89 05:00:57 GMT
References: <414@twwells.uucp> <138@psgdc>
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <138@psgdc> rg@psgdc (Dick Gill) writes:
: In article <414@twwells.uucp>, bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells) writes:
: > What is the correct way to convince uucp to only perform transfers at
: > a single time? What I want is for it to not process all outgoing
: > requests until one particular time or until I manually initiate a
: > connection....
:
: Try uucp -r ......
:
: On my HDB uucp the -r option queues the job without starting the
: transfer.  Start the transfer using uucico, uucp without the -r
: option or mail to the target site.

I know about uucp -r. But what you and several other respondents have
answered is the wrong question. I don't want the uucp *program* to
not initiate transfers, I want the uucp *system* to not do transfers.
As it happens, in this specific case, all the transfers are initiated
by a mailer; uucp -r won't help.  But in any case, I want a method
that doesn't depend on which program put the request into the queue.

Someone did tell me of a -S<system> option to uucico which made uucico
ignore the time in the Systems file. That, plus a simple shell script,
would do the trick, except for one minor problem: that option is not
supported by my uucp.

Sigh.

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Bill
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(BTW, I'm going to be looking for a new job sometime in the next
few months.  If you know of a good one, do send me e-mail.)