Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:04:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Kudada <jkudada@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: CheckUPS software for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20021014070424.98810.qmail@web12302.mail.yahoo.com>
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Would appreciate knowing if someone's managed to port Best Power's CheckUPS II Advanced Client to FreeBSD yet. Currently, Powerware only provide ports for their CheckUPS II Advanced suite to run on other Unix/BSD/Linux OS's. I searched www.FreeBSD.org/Ports with no luck. A search of the mailing list archives proved more fruitful though - it seems there were attempts to port the client but the correspondense was meager and quite dated so I gather the Client hasn't been ported successfully yet. My primary servers (NT machines) are all powered by the same SOLA UPS and have been served well by the CheckUPS Advanced Suite (for WinNT/2000). One server, connected directly to the UPS' serial port, runs the CheckUPS server, whilst the others run CheckUPS client which communicate with the CheckUPS server via the network. Just lately I've decided to add a test FreeBSD server (which I'm hoping will become permanent) hence the need to port the CheckUPS client. I know FreeBSD has ports like NUT - Network Ups Tools (/usr/ports/sysutils/nut) which has also been ported to NT, but (as mentioned earlier) our servers are currently working OK with the CheckUPS suite, so I 'dont want to fix them !' :^) Powerware were kind enough to e-mail me the source code for the suite (v3.25) and I tried to compile the Client from that (source files; checkups.c and upsterm.c). Doing so resulted in several errors, a sample of which is shown below; #gcc -w checkups.c upsterm.c -o CHECKUPS checkups.c:2207: storage size of `ttyctl' isn't known checkups.c:2288: `TCSETA' undeclared (first use in this function) checkups.c:2288: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once checkups.c:2288: for each function it appears in.) upsterm.c:223: invalid use of undefined type `struct termio' upsterm.c:242: `TCSETA' undeclared (first use in this function) upsterm.c:324: `TCGETA' undeclared (first use in this function) upsterm.c:330: `ttynew' has an incomplete type upsterm.c:52: storage size of `ttyctl' isn't known This leaves me with 3 options now; 1. Edit the code. I'm new (but fascinated) with C and a newcomer to the FreeBSD environment as well but I'm willing have crack at it! So any clues as to why I'm getting these errors would be much appreciated. eg: Are TCSETA and TCGETA I/O calls? If so, what are the FreeBSD equivalents? Where can I find info on these FreeBSD specific details @ FreeBSD.org ? etc. 2.Add Linux binary support to my kernal and then install the Powerware's Linux version of the Client 3. Wait for some kind soul ;^) to send me a port that works. Thanks BTW: I'm running FreeBSD 4.6.2 Release but will be upgrading to 4.7 Release __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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