On Friday 05 Sep 2003 7:01 pm, Ray Warren wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 05:23:23PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 4:13 am, david wrote: > > > Anne, > > > > > > I am presently running apcupsd, and if I recall, it required > > > nothing more than rpm -Uvh acp.....rpm on my 7.2 box. It has > > > been running since '01 without a hickup. The trick is to figure > > > out what information your APC box will deal out. (Whether it is > > > a "smart" APC or not) Then just set (or play around with the > > > UPS type in the config to get the maximum amount of info) The > > > type of "cable" and the pin assignments are an issue, but there > > > is plenty of info on this on the web. Good luck! I'd tell you > > > more, but I haven't had to dork with it in years and > > > Altzheimers is taking its toll. > > > > Wel,, the new Smart-UPS700 is in and working, except for two > > problems - > > 1) It complained about line 61 in the config file. I take it > > that it was expecting to find a log file to which it could > > append, but didn't find it. The line is > > LOCKFILE /var/lock > > This is supposed generate a lockfile for the serial port the ups > is connected to. > > > Looking at /var/lock there is nothing there except a directory > > called subsys. Do I create a black file in there, then feed the > > name to line 61? > > > > 2) Everything did exactly as it should until it came to the point > > where it was supposed to power off the box (the orderly shutdown > > had gone through). It didn't power off, and I had to issue > > shutdown -h now. > > > > Could someone please look over the conf file and see what I've > > missed? > > Except for the networking portion Your conf appears to be the same > as mine I'm using version 3.8.5 which I built from source on 2 > boxes. On my system I have some helper scripts in /etc/apcupsd/ > ,owned by root, that do the actual work.You might check to see if > these scripts are there. > > Ray Warren
Yes, there's a whole host of them. Also, in /etc/ups there are a couple that look important, so I'll trawl through them all and see if I can find anything helpful there. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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