xferstats File for BNU

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Purpose

Contains information about the status of file transfer requests.

Description

The /var/spool/uucp/.Admin/xferstats file contains information about the status of each Basic Networking Utilities (BNU) file transfer request. The xferstats file contains:

  • System name
  • Name of the user requesting the transfer
  • Date and time of the transfer
  • Name of the device used in the transfer
  • Size of the transferred file
  • Length of time the transfer took

Examples

Following is a typical entry in the xferstats file: 
zeus!jim M (10/11-16:10:33) (C,9234,1) [-] -> 1167 / 0.100secs

A file was transferred by user jim to system zeus at 4:10 p.m. on the 11th of October. The file size was 1167 bytes and the transfer took 0.100 seconds to complete.

Files

Item Description
/var/spool/uucp/.Admin directory Contains the xferstats file and other BNU administrative files.