---
name: "uutraf"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "uutraf"
version: "1.1-13"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/uutraf"
---

# uutraf(1)

UUCP traffic analyzator and cost estimator.

## NAME

**uutraf** - UUCP traffic analyzator and cost estimator.

## SYNOPSIS

**uutraf** \[ **-n**,**--news** \] \[ **-N**,**--nonews** \] \[ **-s** *host*, **--hostname** *host* \] \[ *logfile* *statfile* \]

**uutraf** \[ **-h**,**--help** \] \[ **-v**,**--version** \]

## DESCRIPTION

**uutraf** takes a *logfile* and a *statfile* produced by Taylor UUCP and displays information summaries from these files. For each site, the following items will be calculated:

• number of transferred files,\
 • size of transferred files,\
 • number of transferred mails,\
 • size of transferred mails,\
 • the combined (total) size of all the above,\
 • average character/second rate (received and sent),\
 • Up/Down-ratio (uploads/downloads),\
 • Efficiency (up- or downloading time/connection time).

The site-dependent parameters are taken from  **/etc/uucp/uutraf.cf**.

These parameters are globally calculated:

• Start and end period of the *logfile* file,\
 • the totals of the site-dependent values.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**,**--help**

  stands for help

- **-v**,**--version**

  prints out the current version of uutraf and exits.

- **-n**,**--news**

  Display separate statistics for news articles.

- **-N**,**--nonews**

  Do not display separate statistics for news articles.

- **-s name**,**--hostname name**

  sets the local hostname to *name*. The local hostname is shown in the banner of the output (there is normally no need to specify a hostname with **-s** since, it's queried with the [**gethostname**(2)](/gethostname/2.md) call. This option is only useful if you are processing *logfiles*and*statfiles* from other hosts).

## FILES

- **/etc/uucp/uutraf.cf**

  Cost information about UUCP sites.

## AUTHORS

David Frey made the original program.\
 Yves Arrouye added modifications.

## COPYRIGHT

**uutraf** is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

## BUGS

The cost estimation is not as exact as desired; some heuristics are hard-coded. Complex scenarios, for example retransmissions of partly sent files, will be accounted in a wrong way.

[**uutraf**(1)](/uutraf/1.md) assumes that calls are only done during one tariffary period (eg. all low rate calls).

## ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The original idea and display layout was taken from *John Vroman's* Perl script - also named **uutraf**.

## SEE ALSO

[**uutraf**(5)](/uutraf/5.md), [**uucp**(1)](/uucp/1.md).