Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 00:20:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H <ml@t-b-o-h.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anyone using sysutils/nut ? Message-ID: <20060523042011.54834.qmail@web60020.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200605230406.k4N46IFI009839@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
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--- Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H <ml@t-b-o-h.net> wrote: > > > > > > --- Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H <ml@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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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