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normality(5)		       File Formats Manual		    normality(5)

NAME
     normality	-  definition  of  what types of normalities different users may
     have.

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/normality

DESCRIPTION
     The normality configuration file has a rather simple syntax,  as  shown  in
     the  diagram  in the next section. Some things to remember is that the nor-
     mality file's influence is inversely proportional to the user's cluefulness
     and that, in certain cirumstances, modification of the normality  file  can
     and will be considered immoral.

NORMALITY GRAMMAR
     <normality file> := <normality file> <line> |
			 ;
     <line> := <normality type> ': ' <userlist> |
	       <normality type> '! ' <userlist> |
	       <normality type> '= ' <normality tags> |
	       <comment>
     <normality type> := [A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]+
     <userlist> := <username> ', ' <userlist> ';0 |
		   <username> ';0
     <normality tags> := <normality tag> ', ' <normality tags> ';0 |
			 <normality tag> ';0
     <normality tag> := 'marriage' |
			'love-relation' |
			'nice-job' |
			'money' |
			'spare-time' |
			'friends' |
			'no-pager' |
			'vacation'
     <comment> := '#' .* '0

SEMANTICS
     It  is  expected  that you specify all normality types before you start as-
     signing (or disassigning) users to (or from) them. That is  so  the  system
     can do an easier consistency check of the specification.

     Let's  say  that  we have a system with three normality types, foo, bar and
     gazonk and two users, cucumber and onion.

     Now, a line like "foo! onion;" would exclude onion from having any  of  the
     real-life	things specified by the foo type, even if that (or those) things
     appear in another normality type. So, the disallow syntax overrides the al-
     low syntax (specified by "<type>: <username>...").

     There is always an implicit type named ``all'', that contains all normality
     tags.

     For all system administrators, you have an implicit rule, "all!  asr".

EXAMPLES
     # Normality file for a sad system
     # Our users are onion, cucumber, jdoe, jrl and washu
     animetype= love-relation, nice-job, friends, spare-time;
     notworst= love-relation, nice-job, friends;
     sysadm= friends;
     # All normality types we will use are declared
     # Now let's do the magic stuff...
     all: jdoe, jrl;
     animetype: washu;
     sysadm: cucumber;
     all! onion;
     # Now, this is fairly easy, OK?

WARNINGS AND BUGS
     This file messes with the real world, so a bit of caution	is  recommended.
     Newer  versions  of the chastise(3) library function modifies this file on-
     the-fly.

     Has a tendecy to create small discontinuities  in	the  velvet  of  reality
     whenever there are syntax errors in the normality file.

AUTHOR
     This  sick  idea was put down in *roff format by Ingvar Mattsson, as a con-
     tribution to the alt.sysadmin.recovery man page collection.

4th Berkeley Distribution      Release 0.001 alpha		    normality(5)

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