hello, On 2026-10-03 6:05, Sylvain Saboua wrote: > On 2026-10-03 05:19, Johan Huldtgren wrote: > > hello, > > > > > My machine is a headless server and has a PS/2 port in case it needs > > > maintenance, so I suppose I can go with it. Does simply echoing > > > those two > > > lines in /bsd.re-config mean that the UPS should work (after > > > rebooting) > > > and I have nothing else to do ? In other words this is a file that > > > is read > > > by the system ? > > > Oh ! Yes it is, see bsd.re-config(1) > > > That was all I did on my system which controls my UPS. You'll have to > > configure apcupsd of course, but I think all that is required is setting > > the UPSCABLE and UPSTYPE both to 'usb' for it to work. > > > Strangely, as I rebooted my server and connected back to it via SSH > to confirm it's running, the same message as before was displayed: > > srv$ su - > Password: > > Broadcast Message from [email protected] > ((not a tty)) at 6:01 ... > > Communications with UPS lost. > > srv# cat /bsd.re-config > disable uhidev > disable upd > > May I ask what is the exact model of the UPS you use ? > I doubt that the problem would come from bas configuartion, > but I'll need to double-check apcupsd.conf it seems.
Like Stuart pointed out in the other reply, the file needs to be /etc/bsd.re-config and you need to reboot, this is very likely the issue. I've used this with various APC UPSs. Currently I have a Smart-UPS 2200 and a Back-UPS Pro. .jh
