Hi Roger, reviving this discussion, since we have a Github ticket for 2.7.5: https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/293
2016-06-05 12:34 GMT+02:00 Roger Price <[email protected]>: > On Sat, 4 Jun 2016, Charles Lepple wrote: > > On Jun 3, 2016, at 6:48 AM, Roger Price <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ... the timer. I don't see it in /var/lib/ups where the locate tool >>> finds upsd.pid, and I don't see it in /run or /var/run where I see >>> upsmon.pid. >>> >>> ... it seems that the timers are only stored in memory. See >> checktimers(): https://github.com/networkupst >> ools/nut/blob/master/clients/upssched.c#L129 >> > > Hello Charles, thanks for the link. If timers are only stored in memory > then the example given at http://networkupstools.org/doc > s/user-manual.chunked/ar01s07.html chapter 7.2 is wrong. It is not > possible to turn off a timer with rm as shown in > > #! /bin/sh > case $1 in > ... > ups-back-on-power) > /bin/rm -f /some/path/ups-on-battery > ;; > ... > esac > > This would explain the problem I have with a current script. > I've made some additions to clarify things on the timer, and complete the script: https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/compare/upssched-doc?expand=1 > Is there some other way of forcing routine cancel_timer from a script or a > configuration file? > this is the last point to address, but I'd need to better understand prior to potentially taking action: theoretically, each event that triggers a timer (like ONBATT) has a counterpart to cancel it (like ONLINE). Ex (from the doc): AT ONBATT * START-TIMER onbattwarn 30 AT ONLINE * CANCEL-TIMER onbattwarn So is there any use case we're missing here? Thanks and cheers, Arno -- Eaton Data Center Automation Solutions - Opensource Leader - http://42ity.org NUT (Network UPS Tools) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.fr
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