Re: apcupsd

[Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:46:49PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> I have two from APC,Back-Ups CS 500 and Back-Ups RS 1500. Trial below refersto 
> the 500.
> 
> My aim isimply to have done done at
>  poweroff/battery low:
> #Ctrl C (to kill mpqc231 computation; there is no X system)
> # shutdown -h now (to close Debian)
> 
> Behavior of 500 is indicated anew below because I mistaken the outputs (sorry, 
> Joe, was not mistaken by apcupsd, it was by myself)
> 
> 
> Configuration:
> /etc/apcups/apcupsd.conf
> ## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ##
> # ?for apcupsd release 3.12.3 (26 April 2006) - debian
> UPSCABLE usb
> UPSTYPE usb
> DEVICE
> LOCKFILE /var/lock
> ONBATTERYDELAY 6
> BATTERYLEVEL 5
> MINUTES 3
> EL,
> TIMEOUT 0
> ANNOY 300
> ANNOYDELAY 60
> NOLOGON disable
> KILLDELAY 0
> NETSERVER on
> NISIP 127.0.0.1
> NISPORT 3551
> EVENTFUL /var/log/apcupsd.events
> EVENTSFILEMAX 10
> UPSCLASS standalone
> UPSMODE disable
> STATTIME 0
> STATFILE /var/log/apcupsd.status
> LOGSTATS off
> DATATIME 0

My config is:
UPSCABLE usb
UPSTYPE usb
DEVICE
LOCKFILE /var/lock
BATTERYLEVEL 5
ONBATTERYDELAY 6
MINUTES 3
TIMEOUT 0
ANNOY 300
ANNOYDELAY 60
NOLOGON disable
KILLDELAY 0
NETSERVER on
NISIP 127.0.0.1
NISPORT 3551
EVENTSFILE /var/log/apcupsd.events
EVENTSFILEMAX 10
UPSCLASS standalone
UPSMODE disable
STATTIME 0
STATFILE /var/log/apcupsd.status
LOGSTATS off
DATATIME 0

> # /sbin/apcupsd start

/etc/init.d/apcupsd restart

> #ps fax
> 8540 ?        Ssl    0:00 /sbin/apcupsd start
> (as the list row)
> 
> #ps -eaf
> root      8540     1  0 14:22 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/apcupsd start
> root      8634  8534  0 14:29 pts/2    00:00:00 ps -eaf
> 
> $cat /proc/bus/usb/devices (indicates that it is seen and the correct driver 
> for kernel 2.6.15-1 loaded)
> :  Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
> D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
> P:  Vendor=051d ProdID=0002 Rev= 0.06
> S:  Manufacturer=American Power Conversion
> S:  Product=Back-UPS CS 500 FW:808.q7.I USB FW:q7
> S:  SerialNumber=BB0613061656
> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=  0mA
> I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbhid
> E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   6 Ivl=100ms
> 
> # apctest
> 2006-09-05 14:34:05 apctest 3.12.3 (26 April 2006) debian
> Checking configuration ...
> Attached to driver: usb
> sharenet.type = DISABLE
> cable.type = USB_CABLE
> You are using a USB cable type, so I'm entering USB test mode
> mode.type = USB_UPS
> Setting up the port ...
> apctest FATAL ERROR in device.c at line 68
> Unable to create UPS lock file.
> apctest FATAL ERROR in device.c at line 68
> Unable to create UPS lock file.
> apctest error termination completed

I don't think you can run apctest while apcupsd is running.

You might have to kill apcupsd, delete the old lock file, and then start
it again.

--
Len Sorensen