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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
       normality file's	influence is  inversely	 proportional  to  the	user's
       cluefulness and that, in	certain	cirumstances, modification of the nor-
       mality 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
       assigning (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 over-
       rides the allow syntax (specified by "<type>: <username>...").

       There is	always an implicit type	named ``all'', that contains all  nor-
       mality 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	recom-
       mended. 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
       contribution to the alt.sysadmin.recovery man page collection.

4th Berkeley Distribution     Release 0.001 alpha		  normality(5)

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