On 4/15/06, Aaron Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering if anyone has written a guide to installing nut on Mac OS X?
there are some notes in the list archives, but apparently Google hasn't picked them up yet. > (or a binary package)? If you use Fink, you could probably use the nut.info file here: http://www.ghz.cc/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dev/eda/finkinfo/ups/nut.info (it's for an older version of NUT, but the same principles apply) > I have a nut install on a linux box attached to a Powerware 5115 ups, > and that seems to be working ok. > I also have a Mac which I would like to be able to shut down when the power > is failing. > I've read through the faq, and I understand how to configure client and > server once the binaries are in place, > but I'm a little unsure about things like the appropriate way to create a nut > user/group (do you do that through the account manager in system preferences? > through niutil, or what)? Either way will work, or you can just cheat and use the 'nobody' account. > and where/how do you configure the appropriate binaries to start up and shut > down correctly? Since you would be setting up the Mac as a slave, you wouldn't have to muck with the system's shutdown scripts to send the power-off command to the UPS. You can do a 'shutdown -h +1', but it won't really inform the users of the impending shutdown. > If anyone's done this before, and made notes they wouldn't mind sharing, I'd > really appreciate them. Part of the problem is that Apple keeps improving their startup/shutdown system, but they leave out important bits of documentation. SystemStartup scripts are effectively obsolete as of 10.4, and launchd's control socket functionality is not documented at all (from what I can tell). If you find out anything else we'd love to hear about it on the list. -- - Charles Lepple _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
