Anyone using sysutils/nut ?

[Peter]

--- Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H <ml at t-b-o-h.net> wrote:

> > 
> > 
> > --- Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H <ml at t-b-o-h.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > 	I'd like to find out where to put the "upsdrvctl shutdown" in
> the
> > > shutdown process. Putting it in rc.shutdown causes me to have
> dirty 
> > > filesystems constantly that sometimes don't allow the system to
> come
> > > up.
> > 
> > You don't.  Instead, use the nut configuration files (ups.conf,
> > upsd.conf, upsmon.conf, hosts.conf, upsd.users).  upsdrvctl is
> called
> > internally from upsd.  That is how I understand it.
> > 
> 	I'm going by :
> 
> 	/usr/local/share/doc/nut/shutdown.txt
> 
> 	Subsection "How you set it up", item #2 :
> 
> 2. Edit your shutdown scripts to check for the POWERDOWNFLAG so they
> know
>    when to power off the UPS.  You must check for this file, as you
> don't
>    want this to happen during normal shutdowns!
> 
>    You can use upsdrvctl to start the shutdown process in your UPS 
>    hardware.  Use this script as an example, but change the paths to
>    suit your system:

My bad.  I did edit rc.shutdown on both a 5.4 and a 6.0 system with no
troubles.  The end of my file shows this:

# Inserted next 5 lines March 13, 2006 for UPS shutdown.
if (test -f /etc/killpower)
then
echo "Killing the power, bye!"
/usr/local/libexec/nut/upsdrvctl shutdown
fi

echo '.'
exit 0



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