UUSTAT(1P)

💖 UUSTAT(1P) 💖 — uucp status check & job control (POSIX Programmer's Manual girlies rise up) 🎀

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

okay so bestie, quick heads up before anything else: this page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so like, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. 😭 fr fr.

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✨ NAME ✨

uustat — uucp status enquiry and job control

she does status checks and she does job control and she does both flawlessly. main character energy 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

uustat [-q|-k jobid|-r jobid]

uustat [-s system] [-u user]

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so the uustat utility shall display the status of, or cancel, previously specified uucp requests, or provide general status on uucp connections to other systems. like, she's the group chat of your uucp jobs. she tells you what's up. 📱✨

When no options are given, uustat shall write to standard output the status of all uucp requests issued by the current user. no filters, no drama, just everything you personally sent out into the world. 💌

Typical implementations of this utility require a communications line configured to use the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface, but other communications means may be used. On systems where there are no available communications means (either temporarily or permanently), this utility shall write an error message describing the problem and exit with a non-zero exit status. 🚨 so if there's literally no way to talk to anyone, she's gonna say so and bounce with a non-zero exit status. not her fault, she's just being honest.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

The uustat utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines. yes queen, she follows the rules. 📏

The following options shall be supported:

• -q — Write the jobs queued for each machine. the queue check 🔍
• -k jobid — Kill the uucp request whose job identification is jobid. The application shall ensure that the killed uucp request belongs to the person invoking uustat unless that user has appropriate privileges. so like, you can only kill your own jobs unless you've got the privileges, bestie. don't be out here cancelling other people's stuff. 🚫💀
• -r jobid — Rejuvenate jobid. The files associated with jobid are touched so that their modification time is set to the current time. This prevents the cleanup program from deleting the job until the jobs modification time reaches the limit imposed by the program. she's basically giving your job a lil spa day so the cleanup program doesn't come for it 🧖‍♀️✨
• -s system — Write the status of all uucp requests for remote system system. 🛰️
• -u user — Write the status of all uucp requests issued by user. 👤

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🍓 OPERANDS 🍓

None. nope. nothing here. empty. void. no operands, no problem 🙈

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⭐ STDIN ⭐

Not used. she doesn't need your keyboard input, she's got her own sources. 💁‍♀️

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🌈 INPUT FILES 🌈

None. literally none. ✨

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🧚

The following environment variables shall affect the execution of uustat:

• LANG — Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section 8.2, Internationalization Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to determine the values of locale categories.) the fallback queen herself. 👑
• LC_ALL — If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables. she overrides everything. the way that she just says "no 💅" to every other variable... iconic.
• LC_CTYPE — Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments). she's the vibe check for your bytes. 🔤
• LC_MESSAGES — Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error, and informative messages written to standard output. she controls how the messages sound, lowkey. 🗣️
• NLSPATH — Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES. the map to where the messages live. 🗺️

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🫶 ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS 🫶

Default. standard behavior, nothing extra, she's chill. 😌

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💖 STDOUT 💖

The standard output shall consist of information about each job selected, in an unspecified format. The information shall include at least the job ID, the user ID or name, and the remote system name. so like, format is unspecified (do whatever, bestie) but you must include at least the job ID, the user ID or name, and the remote system name. those three are non-negotiable. 📋✨

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🎀 STDERR 🎀

The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages. that's it. that's her whole job here. 🩺

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🌸 OUTPUT FILES 🌸

None. zero. nada. 🌷

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💜 EXTENDED DESCRIPTION 💜

None. there's nothing extra to describe and honestly she said what she said. 💅

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🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

The following exit values shall be returned:

1. 0 — Successful completion. we ate and left no crumbs 🍽️✨
2. >0 — An error occurred. something went wrong bestie, deep breaths 😭

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🦋 CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS 🦋

Default.

The following sections are informative. (so like, the rest of this is bonus content, not the binding rules — iykyk 👀)

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✨ APPLICATION USAGE ✨

This utility is part of the UUCP Utilities option and need not be supported by all implementations. so don't be shocked if some system out there is like "who? never heard of her". 🙈

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

None. no examples, use your imagination bestie 🧠✨

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⭐ RATIONALE ⭐

None. the reasoning is a mystery, even to me. 💀

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🧚 FUTURE DIRECTIONS 🧚

None. she's not going anywhere and she's not changing either. periodt. 💅

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• uucp

The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter 8, Environment Variables, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

if you spot a typo in here, it's almost definitely from the source-file-to-man-page glow-up, not from the standard itself. report it at the link above and the maintainers will handle it. 🫶

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and that's the whole page bestie!! brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017 — mwah, love u, go check your uucp queue 💖✨🎀