Matt, Ansgar, and Gergely, Thanks for the tips.
Can you also help with some advice on the init.d script? The init.d script for deathstar launches a daemon which listens for jobs, and one worker per core. Can I use the same pid file for all of those processes? -Whit On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Matt Zagrabelny <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Whit Armstrong > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks, Daniel. >> >> I would be looking for 60000-64999, assuming my package eventually >> made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally >> allocated' uid. The idea is simply not to give users executing an R >> script on the machine root access. >> >> Regarding, reSIProcate, it's cdbs based? Would the postinst script be >> the same format if I use dh? Based on Lucas Nussbaum's tutorial >> (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-tutorial/packaging-tutorial.en.pdf) >> I thought that dh would be the way to go for new packages. > > I've used the postinst script from the puppet package for creating a > user. Here is my "version" of it: > > ---{start}--- > #!/bin/sh > > set -e > > if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then > > # Create the "mailregx" user > if ! getent passwd mailregx > /dev/null; then > adduser --quiet --system --group --home /var/run/milter-regex \ > --no-create-home \ > --gecos "milter-regex daemon user" \ > mailregx > fi > > # Create the "mailregx" group, if it is missing, and set the > # primary group of the "mailregx" user to this group. > if ! getent group mailregx > /dev/null; then > addgroup --quiet --system mailregx > usermod -g mailregx mailregx > fi > fi > > #DEBHELPER# > ---{end}--- > > The "#DEBHELPER#" chunk is a callback or an include. It allows dh to > insert code into the script. > > After my package is built, the postinst looks like: > > ---{start}--- > #!/bin/sh > > set -e > > if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then > > # Create the "mailregx" user > if ! getent passwd mailregx > /dev/null; then > adduser --quiet --system --group --home /var/run/milter-regex \ > --no-create-home \ > --gecos "milter-regex daemon user" \ > mailregx > fi > > # Create the "mailregx" group, if it is missing, and set the > # primary group of the "mailregx" user to this group. > if ! getent group mailregx > /dev/null; then > addgroup --quiet --system mailregx > usermod -g mailregx mailregx > fi > fi > > # Automatically added by dh_installinit > if [ -x "/etc/init.d/milter-regex" ]; then > update-rc.d milter-regex defaults >/dev/null > invoke-rc.d milter-regex start || exit $? > fi > # End automatically added section > ---{end}--- > > You can see the things that dh can put into the various post/pre > scripts in /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts. > > HTH, > > -mz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAMi=pg5meoix4rasoyvjpu9g0owht31q1np+tg4ey41tib9...@mail.gmail.com
