Administration

NNCP uses following files/directories you should be aware of:

• Configuration file, for example /usr/local/etc/nncp.hjson. Should not be globally readable, because it contains private keys.
• Spool directory with inbound/outbound encrypted packets, for example /var/spool/nncp.

  It also contains temporary files (in tmp/ directory), possibly left alone, if some of the commands failed and prematurely exited and that should be cleaned from time to time.

  Partly transferred files are stored with .part suffix. And possibly they also require cleanup if they are completely lost.

  It can contain .nock files: fully downloaded, but still not checksummed. Can be checksummed (with .nock extension removing) with nncp-check -nock.

  Also it can contain seen/ and hdr/ subdirectories, that should be cleaned too from time to time.

  All of that cleaning tasks can be done with nncp-rm utility.

  If you want to share single spool directory with multiple grouped Unix users, then you can setgid it and assure that umask is group friendly. For convenience you can set umask globally for invoked NNCP commands in the configuration file. For example:

  $ chgrp nncp /usr/local/etc/nncp.hjson /var/spool/nncp
  $ chmod g+r /usr/local/etc/nncp.hjson
  $ chmod g+rwxs /var/spool/nncp
  $ echo 'umask: "007"' >> /usr/local/etc/nncp.hjson
  

• Log file, for example /var/spool/nncp/log. It should be rotated. Choose you own preferable way to do it.

  Example newsyslog’s entry:

  /var/spool/nncp/log		644	7	100	*	BCYN
  

• Optional incoming directories where uploaded files are stored. Probably you want to run nncp-reass from time to time to reassemble all chunked uploads. Example crontab entry:

  */1	*	*	*	*	nncp-reass -all -noprogress
  

• Possibly long running nncp-daemon, nncp-caller, nncp-toss, nncp-check daemons. As all software, they can fail and you should place them under some supervisor control.

  For example you can use daemontools for that task to run them under probably existing uucp user:

  # mkdir -p /var/service/.nncp-toss/log
  # cd /var/service/.nncp-toss
  
  # cat > run <<EOF
  #!/bin/sh -e
  exec 2>&1
  exec setuidgid uucp /usr/local/bin/nncp-toss -cycle 10
  EOF
  
  # cat > log/run <<EOF
  #!/bin/sh -e
  exec setuidgid uucp multilog t ./main
  EOF
  
  # chmod -R 755 /var/service/.nncp-toss
  # mv /var/service/.nncp-toss /var/service/nncp-toss
  

• nncp-daemon can also be run as inetd service on UUCP’s port:

  uucp	stream	tcp6	nowait	nncpuser	/usr/local/bin/nncp-daemon	nncp-daemon -quiet -ucspi
  

• Or it can be also run as a daemontools daemon under UCSPI-TCP. In the example below it uses native daemontools’s logging capability:

  # mkdir -p /var/service/.nncp-daemon/log
  # cd /var/service/.nncp-daemon
  
  # cat > run <<EOF
  #!/bin/sh -e
  NNCPLOG=FD:4 exec envuidgid nncpuser tcpserver -DHRU -l 0 ::0 uucp \
  	/usr/local/bin/nncp-daemon -quiet -ucspi 4>&1
  EOF
  
  # cat > log/run <<EOF
  #!/bin/sh -e
  exec setuidgid uucp multilog ./main
  EOF
  
  # chmod -R 755 /var/service/.nncp-daemon
  # mv /var/service/.nncp-daemon /var/service/nncp-daemon