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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2006 09:36:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Scott "Tuc" Ellentuch at T-B-O-H <ml@t-b-o-h.net>
To:        petermatulis@yahoo.ca (Peter)
Cc:        Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H <ml@t-b-o-h.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Anyone using sysutils/nut ?
Message-ID:  <200605241336.k4ODajd1078702@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060523042011.54834.qmail@web60020.mail.yahoo.com>

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> > 	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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