Transfer log

The transfer log contains information pertaining to file transfer. For example, it shows the number of bytes transferred and how long the transfer took. After both uucicos (master and slave) agree on the protocol, the transfer information of each file is written into /var/spool/uucp/.Admin/xferstats. A typical entry is as follows:

sysname user master time prog procID seqnum device trans rate status

where:

sysname

name of remote system

user

user login

master

M=master, S=slave

time

date and time that entry was written to log

prog

C=uucico, U=uucp, X=uux, Q=uuxqt

procID

process ID of uucico, uucp, uux, or uuxqt

seqnum

sequential number for each file transferred in a session

device

device name of media

trans

direction and data bytes/clock time to transfer

rate

transfer rate (bytes/sec)

status

``PARTIAL FILE'' if the file was not completed because of transmission error; "" if the file was transmitted completely

An example entry is:

ihx! peterca M (5/20-6:10:10) (C, 6559 ,1) [DKH] (-> 1024/0.13 secs, 7877 bytes/sec ""

Report statistics of file transfer

By specifying the -s file option with uucp, you can have the statistics of your file transfer reported to file. For each file transfer request, file will contain three lines. For multiple file transfer requests, the size of file increases accordingly. A typical entry is:

header jobID time elapsed
sender filename direction receiver dest login
mesg

where:

header

message header (always the same)

jobID

job ID assigned by uucp

time

date and time the file transfer completed

elapsed

hh:mm:ss of elapsed time between time of creation of queue file and completion of the file transfer

sender

sender node name

filename

source filename

direction

direction (always the same)

receiver

receiver node name

dest

destination directory/filename

login

requester login ID

mesg

a message

An example entry is:

uucp job: mach1N1131 (6/12-13:34:58) (0:0:19)
ihnp1! /n15/user1/liblog  mach1! ~/peterca (peterca)
copy succeeded