Explained execution of mkmap.sh and crontab

Also improved markdown formatting ... slightly.
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Steffen Möller 2014-06-21 20:16:52 +02:00
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@ -14,16 +14,18 @@ When executed without root privileges, we suggest to grant sudo permissions
within wrappers of those binaries, so no further changes are required in other
scripts:
<pre>
$ cat <<EOCAT > $HOME/batctl
#!/bin/sh
exec sudo /usr/sbin/batctl $*
EOCAT
</pre>
and analogously for batadv-vis. The entry for /etc/sudoers could be
whateveruser ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/batctl,/usr/sbin/batadv-vis,/usr/sbin/alfred-json
The destination directory can be made directly available through apache:
<pre>
$ cat /etc/apache2/site-enabled/000-default
...
<Directory /home/whateverusername/www/>
@ -37,3 +39,13 @@ $ cat /etc/apache2/site-enabled/000-default
$ cat /etc/apache2/conf.d/freifunk
Alias /map /home/ffmap/www/
Alias /firmware /home/freifunk/autoupdates/
</pre>
To execute, run
./mkmap.sh ../www
The script expects above described sudo-wrappers in the $HOME directory of the user executing
the script. If those are not available, an error will occurr if not executed as root. Also,
the tool realpath optionally allows to execute the script from anywhere in the directory tree.
For the script's regular execution add the following to the crontab:
*/5 * * * * /home/ffmap/ffmap-backend/mkmap.sh /home/ffmap/www