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Old 8th November 2008
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I've installed utserver (Unreal Tournament game server) from ports. It also installed a startscript in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ucc

Code:
# $FreeBSD: ports/games/utserver/files/ucc.in,v 1.3 2006/09/18 14:01:15 rafan Exp $
#
# PROVIDE: ucc
# REQUIRE: DAEMON
#
# Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf[.local] to enable ucc
#
# ucc_enable (bool):            Set to "NO" by default.
#                               Set it to "YES" to enable ucc.

. /etc/rc.subr

name="ucc"
rcvar=${name}_enable

load_rc_config $name

: ${ucc_enable="NO"}
: ${ucc_config="server.ini"}
: ${ucc_logfile="/dev/null"}
: ${ucc_map="dm-Hyperblast"}
: ${ucc_pidfile="/var/run/ucc.pid"}

pidfile=${ucc_pidfile}
command="/usr/local/ut-server/System/ucc-bin"
command_args="server \"${ucc_map}\" ini=${ucc_config}"
start_cmd="ucc_startcmd"

ucc_startcmd()
{
    if [ -z "$rc_fast" -a -n "$rc_pid" ]; then
        echo "${name} already running? (pid=$rc_pid)."
        return 1
    fi
    echo Starting ${name}.
    if [ ! -x /usr/sbin/daemon ]; then
        err 1 "/usr/sbin/daemon required"
    fi
    if ! /usr/sbin/daemon 2>&1 | grep pidfile > /dev/null; then
        err 1 "/usr/sbin/daemon with -p option required"
    fi
    if ! kldstat -v | grep -E 'linux(aout|elf)' > /dev/null; then
        err 1 "Linux support required"
    fi
    cd /usr/local/ut-server/System/
    cmd="/usr/sbin/daemon -p ${ucc_pidfile} ${command} ${command_args}"
    if [ -n "$ucc_user" ]; then
        cmd="su -m $ucc_user -c '$cmd'"
    fi
    eval "$cmd 2>&1 >> ${ucc_logfile}"
}
After putting ucc_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf the server starts up fine on boot. However, it runs as root. How can I change this to something else (user nobody maybe)?
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Well this might be a lazy way of doing it, but looking at the script if you might try setting ucc_user to the desired user name.
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I tried that but got some permission error concerning the pid file. I didn't look into it too much though. I thought this would be a common task for daemons in /etc/rc.conf.
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Hmm, yes, it would.
You will also have to set ucc_pidfile to a location that is writable to the user that you want to use. The standard location, /var/run, is writable by root only.

By the way, I would not use 'nobody' as the user. With the various system processes that tend to run as 'nobody', 'nobody' can become quite a privileged user!
Create a user new user and use that. Use /sbin/nologin as its shell, and /dev/null as its home, and it won't cause any security problems.
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Thanks! I did what you said and got it working. I created a user utserver with shell nologin and nonexistent for home. I also created /var/run/utserver (chown utserver:utserver) where the pid file goes.

I really only have two more thoughts:

1) After making the changes, when starting the server, two processes are created. I'm not sure why?

ps -uA
Code:
.
.
utserver  2271  0.0  1.5 32568 29984  ??  Ss    3:30AM   0:08.12 /usr/local/ut-server/System/ucc-bin server ctf-Niven?game=botpack.ctfgame?mutator=ZPPure7G.Accugib ini=server.in
utserver  2273  0.0  1.5 32568 29984  ??  S     3:30AM   0:00.00 /usr/local/ut-server/System/ucc-bin server ctf-Niven?game=botpack.ctfgame?mutator=ZPPure7G.Accugib ini=server.in
.
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Using /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ucc stop kills them both though.

2) All files in ="/usr/local/ut-server/ are owned by root. Should I change this aswell to the utserver user, and if so, do I need to alter any rights?
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why don't just run it in a jail if security is a your concern?
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Not unless utserver needs to write to them. It should not, if it is well behaved.

If you get permission denied errors while running it, then chown the files that it needs to change. You are best leaving as much as you can read-only.

Sounds like you've got things running well. Many servers fork off new processes, so that looks fine as well. (All I'm thinking is 'Only 2? most of them fork of 4 or 5!)

And lastly, yes, jails are good things. Take a look at them.
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Thanks for all your help! I think I'm pretty happy with how the setup is working now.

About forking off processes: a friend of mine is running the same setup on a Debian powered server and he's getting just one process. Could that differ between FreBSD and Debian?

I think I found out what is causing the second process to be started though, and it's a package loaded by the ut-server. If I don't load it, I just get the one process. I'll try and contact the author of that package and see what he has to say.

Thanks again. Much apprechiated.
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It may be the way ps works - I don't know all the details, but on some system ps shows both parent processes and children, on others ps shows only parent processes, unless various options are set.

Not sure it that applies here though, but it is a possiblility.
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