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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 transaction in
  the appropriate log file each time you use the networking utilities
  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 .Log 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 handled
  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 appropriate line in
  the shell script.  If storage space is a problem on a particular 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)

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