hi,
I have a BestPower UPS (it is a `smart' one) and I am trying to start
the monitoring daemon with a /etc/init.d/ script like everything else
(using the init.d/skeleton for a template), however i have a problem:
this daemon does not create .pid files, and it forks several times
when its first starting up so start-stop-daemon --make-pidfile gets
the pid of a process that is killed as soon as the daemon is finished
connecting to the UPS, so the `stop' part of the script won't work :(
and if that is not enough this daemon always leaves a zombie process
after it starts up, so trying to fix the .pid with pidof does not
work either since it finds 2 pids...
I have been trying various scripting tricks to replace
start-stop-daemon creating an empty file in /var/run so i can tell
when its running or not, the other problem I have is the way this
daemon forks and exits it seems to cause my script to aport
prematurely.
BestPower supplies the full source code to their software (and gives
full specification on the comm protocol to anyone who asks), but I am
not skilled enough of a programmer to fix these problems (that and
the code is kinda gross...)
does anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? does there
happen to be a replacement software for these UPSs (that works in
smart mode) ?
Best Regards,
Ethan Benson
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