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Lindsay Allen wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Dean A. Roman wrote:
>
> > >I've had a similar problem. Switched to nut, and that seems to be
> > >working just fine for me. I have a Smart-UPS 620 with smart cable.
>
I'm having problems with nut right now. The command "upsc" which I guess is
supposed to give you some command line monitoring functionality isn't working.
In addition, I can't find anything describing this command. There is no man
page for it, and upsc doesn't have any help or usage functions with in it that I
can gleam info. from either.
Maybe somebody can send there working config files so that I can try them. I'm
running an APC Smart-UPS 700.
> >
> > I haven't received any reply from the apcupsd debian developer.
> > Does anyone know if he still works on this package?
> > I also haven't found anyone using Debian that has this package working.
> > Was it ever tested to work with Debian?
> >
> > I'll try nut and see what happens.
>
> APCUPSD gave me the same problem - it failed to shutdown the box though
> the log had an entry saying that it was being shut down.
>
> So I tried nut but got nowhere with that either. There were several
> problems including one about not running even as root, which is Q1 in the
> FAQ. Is it not the maintainer's job to make it work? There was also a
> major issue about the config as the docs mentioned a config file which is
> not in the package. I forget the details and that computer is out of
> service for a while so I can't look it up.
>
So far, I see two config. files that don't exist.
1) /etc/nut/upsd.users
2) /etc/nut/ups.conf
The README.Debian file doesn't mention the ups.conf file at all. However, the
docs in the nut-doc package has ups.conf all over.
I get the impression that these packages (nut, apcd, apcupsd) were never
actually tested with a ups in Debian by the package maintaner??
So far, I have gone the farthest with apcupsd in that it actually contacted my
UPS and put an entry in the syslog, however never did the shutdown.
I guess I'll try apcd next...any other UPS shutdown packages out there?
>
> We really need a debian-UPS list for while so that we can co-ordinate
> effort on this matter.
>
You have agreement on that!
>
> Cheers,
> Lindsay
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Thanks,
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