The Poll File

The Poll File

The Poll file (/etc/uucp/Poll) contains information for polling remote computers. Each entry in the Poll file contains the name of a remote computer to call, followed by a <Tab> character (a space won't work), and finally the hours at which the computer should be called. The format of entries in the Poll file is

sys-name hour ...

For example, the following entry provides polling of computer eagle every four hours:

eagle 0 4 8 12 16 20

The uudemon.poll script does not actually perform the poll. It merely sets up a polling work file (always named C.file) in the spool directory that will be seen by the scheduler, which is started by uudemon.hour.