Natanael Copa schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> Would be nice to have a shutdown applet and wall applet for compability
> reasons.
>
> I'm trying to get apcupsd running for my alpine linux distro (based on
> busybox).
>
> I have a few challenges:
> 1. configure script requries that shutdown applet exists
> 2. the wall program is missing
> 3. the control script does not give any option to separate poweroff with
> reboot, it just uses $SHUTDOWN -r/-h now. From the case "$1":
>
> ...
> doreboot)
> echo "UPS ${2} initiating Reboot Sequence" | ${WALL}
> ${SHUTDOWN} -r now "apcupsd UPS ${2} initiated reboot"
> ;;
> doshutdown)
> echo "UPS ${2} initiated Shutdown Sequence" | ${WALL}
> ${SHUTDOWN} -h now "apcupsd UPS ${2} initiated shutdown"
> ;;
> ...
>
> Now, I can patch this and workaround the missing shutdown, but a "wall"
> applet would be nice. and it would actually be nice with a small wrapper
> for halt/poweroff/reboot applets for compability reasons.
>
> I know I can easily make it in shell, but in Alpine i give users the
> option to install the util-linux-ng in case teh busybox variants are not
> good enough. using shell wrappers would cause conflicts for the package
> manager, while the busybox links are handled by trigger scripts.
>
> Other ideas?
>
provide wall.sh and shutdown.sh and link to shutdown/wall if this does not
exists.
So far i know neither wall nor shutdown is a SUS requirement so you should send
that
as patch to alpine linux. (otherwise BB you proved that scripts on its webpages
for
compartibility reasons.)
just my 2 cents,
wh
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