On Sunday 12 May 2019 10:18:02 am Charles Lepple wrote: > On May 11, 2019, at 7:17 AM, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > I just set up a UPS on a Debian Stretch system for my > > sister-in-law. Obviously, I want NUT to properly shut down the unit > > when the battery gets low. This means upsmon must be running and > > healthy. When I run 'systemctl status nut-monitor`, I see the > > following in the journal: > > > > nut-monitor.service: Supervising process 778 which is not our child. > > We'll most likely not notice when it exits > > > > Process 778 is /lib/nut/upsmon > > > > Is this an issue? Presumably nut-monitor should know if upsmon > > dies, shouldn't it? > > https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/123 > > The cheeky answer is that upsmon never dies unexpectedly. (To be fair, > the code is a lot simpler than the drivers, or upsd.) But nut-client > 2.7.4-5 has a PIDFile directive, so we should have the bases covered. > > As I recall, the patches to tell upsmon not to fork (which would avoid > that message) made a mess of the options, or were not consistent with > other NUT daemons. > That would seem to be a committee syndrome, where the committee has not had a good productive meeting in quite some time. A variation on too many cooks?
upsmon and all that did seem to work in wheezy, but my present testing "stretch" based -rt kernel for LCNC wasn't built with the usbhid-ups module enabled, so I haven't a clue what my ups is doing. I've left a minor squawk with the LCNC developers list. > > _______________________________________________ > > Nut-upsuser mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser > > _______________________________________________ > Nut-upsuser mailing list > [email protected] > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
