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.. .de list .HTML .. .ds PA uschedule .ds VE 0.7.1 .ds CL admin .TH uscheduleconf 1 \*(VE \*(PA .hy 0 .URL "Uwe Ohse" ../uwe.html .br .URL "The uschedule package" ../uschedule.html .paragraph .SH NAME uscheduleconf - configure a scheduling service .LINE .SH SYNOPSIS \fBuscheduleconf\fR DIR ACCT LOGACCT [JOBDIR [LOGDIR]] .SH DESCRIPTION \fBuscheduleconf\fR creates a svscan service directory \fIDIR\fR, which starts a service to uschedule for the user \fIACCT\fR. The jobs will be read from \fIJOBDIR\fR (or ~\fIACCT\fR/.uschedule, if \fIJOBDIR\fR is not given or only contains a minus character). .paragraph Logging information will be written to \fILOGDIR\fR (or ~\fIACCT\fR/.uschedule/log, if \fILOGDIR\fR is not given), using the the account \fILOGACCT\fR. .paragraph Version before 0.7.0 allowed to give "-" for ACCT to use the current user and "-" for LOGACCT to use ACCT for LOGACCT, but the code turned out to be buggy. See the NEWS file of the uschedule package for more information. .SH "OPTIONS" .options .option "-n, --no-user-change" Do not change file ownership and do not switch user ids. .optionparagraph The default is to make ACCT and LOGACCT the owners of JOBDIR, LOGDIR and the file therein, and to switch to ACCT and LOGACCT before running uscheduled and the logging program. .optionparagraph With this option the caller will be the owner of all files created and the programs will run with all the rights they inherit. .optionparagraph This option was added in version 0.7.0. .endoptions .SH "ENVIRONMENT" In \fIJOBDIR\fR/env a number of environment variables are set (one file per variable). HOME, SHELL, USER and LOGNAME are set to values taken from the system password database. .br The PATH variable is set to /command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/:/bin for any user not having an uid of 0. For users with uid 0 /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin will be appended. .paragraph All these variables may be changed. .paragraph .SH "SECURITY" Keep the following rules in mind: .list .entry Do not ever create a service directory \fIDIR\fR in an insecure place. Nobody but you - the system administrator - must be able to write to it. Especially do not ever create this directory in the users $HOME. You would be giving away instant root access! .entry Do not ever create \fIJOBDIR\fR and \fILOGDIR\fR in an insecure place. These directories and the content must only be writable by the user for which the service is run. .entry Be careful about \fILOGACCT\fR. If you set up a scheduling service for a user then \fILOGACCT\fR should be this user. If you are setting up a scheduling service for a system account then you may want to use a different user for logging purposes (while this is local policy i can't think of any reason why the logging should run as root). .entry Resource limits may be configured in \fIDIR/run\fR and \fIDIR/log/run\fR. The defaults are most possibly not right for every system. Keep in mind that perl eats lots of resources and that a multilog processor may use perl ... .endlist .SH "EXAMPLES" .subsection "Setup a scheduler for system services" Create a uschedule service for root, with the service directory /etc/root-schedule and the logging done to /var/log/root-schedule under the "misclog" account. .paragraph .nf .HTML
    uscheduleconf /etc/root-schedule root misclog \\
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.fi .subsection "Setup a scheduler for a user" Create a schedule service for uwe, having the trusted commands in /etc/uwe-schedule and any parts uwe can change in ~uwe/.uschedule: .paragraph .nf .HTML
    uscheduleconf /etc/uwe-schedule uwe uwe \\
             ~uwe/.uschedule ~uwe/.uschedule/logs
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.fi .SH AUTHOR Uwe Ohse, uwe@ohse.de .SH "SEE ALSO" .manlink uschedule.html uschedule(1) , .manlink uschedulecmd.html uschedulecmd(1) , .manlink intro.html uschedule_intro(7) . .HTML