Controlling calls to each system

By default, uucico attempts connection to every system listed in the Systems file. To reduce these attempts, you can code acceptable callout times for each system in the Systems file. In addition, each system will be contacted even if no data transfers or remote command executions have been requested on the local system. (This is to receive data transfers or local command executions that were requested on the remote system.)

You can specify different crontab entries for different systems. Each of these crontab entries will specify a command of the form

uucico -r1 -s site

where site is the name of the remote site to be called.

Example: This sample crontab entry calls the system named North every hour on the hour:

0 * * * * /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -s north

Example: This sample crontab entry calls the system named East at 12:00 noon and 7:00 p.m. each day from Monday to Friday:

0 12,19 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -s east