10-25-2009
User script folder standard location ?
I am starting to accumulate a few scripts that I working on to replace operational scripts and to have a few for my personal usage. I am not an admin, just an operator.
They are currently located inside the /tmp folder. I know they should not be there but since we have no system admin (someone was named for it but has no experience and almost no knowledge at all) and that the system is somewhat left on its own (no one is maintaining it except for system/database upgrades done by an external company), we were never told what the standards are.
The operational scripts we are using have been created like 10+ years ago by someone who has no script/standards knowledge (still doesn't) and hasn't put any validations, protections, support coding, ... at all. They haven't been updated since and are prone to a lot of problems due to operator mistakes. I want to gradually change this, improve and secure them. I am learning scripts to do this (which has been accepted as a project).
To move my scripts into a more secured location, I want to know what are the usual standards related to where user scripts should be located.
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INSTALLSIEVE(1) General Commands Manual INSTALLSIEVE(1)
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NAME
installsieve - user utility for managing sieve scripts
SYNOPSIS
installsieve
DESCRIPTION
installsieve is a utility that allows users to manage their sieve scripts kept on the server.
OPTIONS
-v <name> View script with the given name. The script if retrieved sucessfully is output to standard output.
-l List all of the scripts currently on the server. If one of the scripts is active a arrow is printed indicating that it is the active
script.
-p <port> Port to connect to. If left off this defaults to "sieve" as defined in /etc/services.
-i <file> Install a file onto the server. If a script with the same name already exists on the server it is overwritten. Upon sucessfully
putting the script on the server the script is set active. If <file> has the extension .script it is chopped when put on the server since
sieve names may not contain a '.'.
-a <name> Set <name> as the active script. The list of available names can be obtained from the '-l' option..
-d <name> Delete the sieve script on the server with <name>.
-m <mechanism> Force installsieve to use <mechanism> for authentication. If not specified the strongest authentication mechanism is chosen.
-g <name> Get the sieve script with <name> and save it to disk with a ".script" extension. If a file with that name already exists it is
overwritten.
-u <user> Userid/Authname to use for authentication; by default, the current user.
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