---
name: "send-uucp.pl"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "inn2"
version: "2.3.2-3"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/send-uucp.pl"
---

# send-uucp.pl(8)

send Usenet articles via UUCP

## NAME

send-uucp.pl - send Usenet articles via UUCP

## SYNOPSIS

**send-uucp** \[*sites...*\]

## DESCRIPTION

The **send-uucp.pl** program processes batch files written by [**innd**(8)](/innd/8.md) to send Usenet articles to UUCP sites, offering greater flexability than the [**send-uucp**(8)](/send-uucp/8.md) provided with INN.

## OPTIONS

Any arguments provided to the program are interpreted as a list of sites specfied in **send-uucp.cf** for which batches should be generated.  If no arguments are supplied then batches will be generated for all sites listed there.

## CONFIGURATION

The sites to which articles are to be sent must be configured in the configuration file **send-uucp.cf.** Each site is specified with a line of the form:

-

  ```
   site [compressor [maxsize [batchtime ]]]
  ```

- **site**

  The UUCP site name being configured.  The same site name must be the same in both the UUCP configuration and the INN [**newsfeeds**(5)](/newsfeeds/5.md) configuration file.

- **compressor**

  The compression method to use for batches.  This should be one of compress, gzip or none.  Arguments for the compression command may be specified by using '\_' instead of spaces.  For example,  *gzip\_-9*

- **maxsize**

  The maximum size of a single batch before compression.

- **batchtime**

  A comma separated list of hours during which batches should be generated for a given site.

Fields are seperated by spaces and only the site name needs to be specified, with defaults being used for unspecified values.  If the first character on a line is a # then the rest of the line is ignored.

## FILES

- **/etc/news/send-uucp.cf**

  Configuration file specifying a list of sites to be processed.

- **/var/log/news/send-uucp.log**

  A log of the activities of the program.

## NOTES

The usual flags used for a UUCP feed in the  **newsfeeds** file are **Tf,Wfb**

## SEE ALSO

[**innd**(8)](/innd/8.md), [**newsfeeds**(5)](/newsfeeds/5.md), [**send-uucp**(8)](/send-uucp/8.md), **uucp**(8).

## AUTHOR

This program was originally written by Edvard Tuinder \<ed@elm.net\> and has since been maintained and extended by Miquel van Smoorenburg \<miquels@cistron.nl\>.  This manual page was written by Mark Brown \<broonie@sirena.org.uk\>.