Anyone using sysutils/nut ?

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 10:54 AM -0400 5/22/06, Scott "Tuc" Ellentuch at T-B-O-H 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.

It occurs to me that I did save away the message that
said the right way to do it:


At 11:21 AM -0700 5/19/00, Mike Smith wrote:
>
>     The canonical way to do this is actually to shudown
>     and reboot.
>
>     In the _startup_ phase, while the root filesystem is
>     still mounted readonly, you check the UPS status.  At
>     this point, you have access to the disk in a read-only
>     fashion, and you can power-off (or have the UPS die)
>     at any time.

So, you don't create any flag-file as I had guessed in my
previous message.  The one thing you need to make sure if
is that your UPS-reading program can *run* before /usr is
mounted.  You could test that by booting up in single-user
mode, and see if the program works.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu