Re: APCUPSD doesn't shutdown machine
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 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.
>
> We really need a debian-UPS list for while so that we can co-ordinate
> effort on this matter.
>
> Cheers,
> Lindsay
> ---
>
Hello all,
I just wanted to report back that I finally got APCUPSD working on my Debian
woody machine with a APC SmartUPS 700 UPS. The maintainers of apcupsd have a
pretty good web site also(www.apcupsd.org) with instructions, downloadable code,
mail archives, etc.
I have been emailing Kern Sibbald and the apcupsd mail list about the problems
with this package under Debian and he suggested I download the source, then
compile it from scratch. Turns out to be a very clean install and compile. The
configure file is setup to install cleanly under Debian and recognizes Debian
automagically.
10 minutes after following the instructions, I had apcupsd up and running, then
shutting down my machine. 5 more minutes and I had it configured in network
mode and had it shutdown 2 machines.
If we could get the Debian maintainer of this package to build it with the
correct options, I think this package would turn out to be very useful for a lot
of people.
Thanks,
---Dean Roman.
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