Re: sysvinit vs. new powerd...
I hope Bruce won't mind me cc:'ing this back to debian-devel---he
brings up issues that could stand to have world input, especially
since there's stuff I flat don't know enough about.
In message <m0uR2Dt-0005zFC@mongo.pixar.com>, Bruce Perens writes:
>Note that sysvinit is a base package, and you have no choice about installing
>it. Although powerd and its man page are very small, they probably don't
>belong in the base system.
Um. Well. Better tell MvS about that, seeing as how there's already
one there, installed courtesy of sysvinit. :-)
No, really, I agree.
>Note that there are a lot more power daemons. "amsd", "genpower", etc.
I haven't looked at genpower, yet, though I've seen it. Supposedly
the author of genpower and Alessandro Rubini intended to merge their
two daemons---this was a while ago. I may look into doing that, if
genpower actually has anything to offer over powerd.
I'm also not familiar with amsd---is it linux-specific, or unix-generic?
>There are a few different ways to power down the computer. You can send a
>command to the UPS, you can tell APM BIOS to power it down, or you can use
>an X-10 switch. The last time I asked about this the suggestion I got was to
>use an init level for power-down. Perhaps we should standardize which init
>level this is.
We already have. Or, maybe I should say that MvS has done so for us,
while no one was looking. It's all in sysvinit, from lines in inittab
to scripts in /etc/init.d. All I had to do was provide a powerd that
would send SIGPWR to init.
Most of the powerd's out there seem to be based on the one included
with sysvinit since way back.
>Also, how much should the UPS and APM interact?
Toughie. I'd guess that, assuming there's a command available that
will use APM to shut down everything non-essential, it would be
appropriate for the /etc/init.d/powerfail script to call that command
(or a script) as part of its shutdown procedures, in order to extend
battery life.
Mike.
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