Status(4)Status(4)NAME
Status, .Status - Contains information about the status of the uucp
program contacts with remote systems
SYNOPSIS
/usr/spool/uucp/.Status
DESCRIPTION
The /usr/spool/uucp/.Status directory contains information about the
status of the uucp program contacts with remote systems.
For each remote system contacted, the uucp program creates a file in
the directory called SystemName, where the SystemName file is named for
the remote system being contacted. In the file, the uucp program
stores the following information: Time of the last call in seconds Sta‐
tus of the last call Number of retries Retry time, in seconds, of the
next call
The times given in the file are expressed as seconds elapsed since mid‐
night of January 1, 1970 (the output of a time system call). Thus, the
retry time is in the form of the number of seconds that must have
expired since midnight of January 1, 1970 before the system can retry.
To make this entry in the file, uucp performs a time system call, adds
600 seconds, and places the resulting number of seconds in the file.
If the last call was unsuccessful, the uucico daemon will wait until
the time specified by the retry time before attempting to contact the
system again.
SEE ALSO
Daemons: uucico(8)
Functions: time(3)Status(4)
