UUCP Forwarding

When sending files through a series of machines, the intermediary machines must have the command uucp among their COMMANDS options. If you type the command:

% uucp sample.txt oak\!willow\!pine\!/usr/spool/uucppublic

the forwarding operation works only if machine willow permits machine oak to execute the program uucp, and if machine oak permits your machine to do the same. The machine pine, being the last machine designated, does not have to permit the command uucp since it is not doing any forwarding operations. Machines are not normally set up this way.