In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > The problem is this: > > I've got a UPS daemon (mgeupsd, not debianized, but I might work on > that if I can get this problem resolved.) > > It works fine when the power fails: it writes FAIL to /etc/powerstatus > and sends SIGPWR to init. init then looks at these lines in inittab:
If you feel like tweaking the source of mgeupsd, there is a much better (IMHO) way to report power events to init. Just write to the /dev/initctl pipe and you can avoid all status files in /etc and all SIGPWR signals. Much cleaner (and easier to debug...) See bpowerd source for example. Sorry if this isn't directly helpful, -Mitch
