On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > The daemon clearly talks to the UPS. It knows the voltages and the times > > and the events. When the power fails it stops people logging in. But it > > does not shut down the server. > > I have a BackUPS Pro 1000 with the simple gray cable so my suggestions > might not be totally applicable.. > > Make sure the BATTERYLEVEL, MINUTES and TIMEOUT in apcupsd.conf are set > with sane values for your system.
>From my .conf # BATTERYLEVEL <percent of battery charge for shutdown> 10 BATTERYLEVEL 30 # # MINUTES <time in minutes of remaining battery runtime before shutdown> 5 MINUTES 10 # # TIMEOUT <time is seconds to run on UPS after a power failure> # Note, if you have a Smart UPS, you will most likely want to disable # this timer by setting it to zero. That way, you UPS will continue # on batteries until either the % charge remaing drops below BATTERYLEVEL, # or the remaining battery runtime drops below MINUTES. Of course, # if you are testing, setting this to 60 causes a quick system shutdown # if you pull the power plug. # If you have an older dumb UPS, you will want to set this to less than # the time you know you can run on batteries. TIMEOUT 60 The UPS is a "smart" one, if I understand the docs correctly, so I expect a shutdown to be initiated in 60 seconds. At that time it disallows login by creating /etc/nologin (owned by root) and it *says* that it is shutting down the system, but it does not. This is what has me bluffed. > Is apcupsd being run by root and/or in a group with shutdown privs? I'm > leaning towards that as the problem if everything else completes except > shutting down. >From daemon.log:- Apr 18 22:20:57 gw apcupsd[151]: apcupsd exiting, signal 15 Apr 18 22:20:58 gw apcupsd[151]: apcupsd shutdown succeeded Apr 18 22:21:16 gw apcupsd[314]: apcupsd 3.8.1-5 (7 April 2001) debian startup succeeded Apr 18 22:30:00 gw apcupsd[315]: Power failure. Apr 18 22:30:02 gw apcupsd[315]: Running on UPS batteries. Apr 18 22:31:05 gw apcupsd[315]: Reached run time limit on batteries. Apr 18 22:31:05 gw apcupsd[315]: Initiating system shutdown! Apr 18 22:31:05 gw apcupsd[315]: User logins prohibited Apr 18 22:34:36 gw apcupsd[315]: Cancelling shutdown Apr 18 22:34:36 gw apcupsd[315]: Power is back. UPS running on mains. Apr 18 22:34:36 gw apcupsd[315]: Allowing logins Note how shutdown was initiated 65 seconds after power failure. It's running as root. All binaries are in the expected place. But still no shutdown. Maybe I just have to log a bug report. Thanks for the response. Lindsay > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486, 0403 272 564 32.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
