Anyone using sysutils/nut ?
Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H
ml at t-b-o-h.net
Wed May 24 06:36:52 PDT 2006
> > 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
>
But doesn't that immediately shut down your system causing it
to need FSCK when it comes back up?
Thanks, Tuc
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