SYNOPSIS

       uscheduleconf DIR ACCT LOGACCT [JOBDIR [LOGDIR]]

DESCRIPTION

       uscheduleconf  creates  a  svscan service directory DIR, which starts a
       service to uschedule for the user ACCT. The  jobs  will  be  read  from
       JOBDIR  (or ~ACCT/.uschedule, if JOBDIR is not given or only contains a
       minus character).

       Logging information will be written to LOGDIR (or ~ACCT/.uschedule/log,
       if LOGDIR is not given), using the the account LOGACCT.

       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.

OPTIONS

       -n, --no-user-change
              Do not change file ownership and do not switch user ids.

              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.

              With this option the caller will  be  the  owner  of  all  files
              created  and  the  programs  will  run  with all the rights they
              inherit.

              This option was added in version 0.7.0.

ENVIRONMENT

       In JOBDIR/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.
       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.

       All these variables may be changed.

SECURITY

       Keep the following rules in mind:

       *   Do not ever create a service directory DIR 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!

       *    Do  not ever create JOBDIR and LOGDIR in an insecure place.  These
          directories and the content must only be writable by  the  user  for

   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.

           uscheduleconf /etc/root-schedule root misclog \
                    /etc/root-schedule/jobs /var/log/root-schedule


   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:

           uscheduleconf /etc/uwe-schedule uwe uwe \
                    ~uwe/.uschedule ~uwe/.uschedule/logs

AUTHOR

       Uwe Ohse, uwe@ohse.de

SEE ALSO

       uschedule(1), uschedulecmd(1), uschedule_intro(7).

       The homepage may be more up-to-date, see
       http://www.ohse.de/uwe/uschedule.html.



uschedule                            0.7.1                    uscheduleconf(1)