[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc SCHAEFER) wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following issue: > > if the cable to the UPS is removed, nut will shutdown the server. > > This is perfectly correct, when the UPS is supposed to be there. But > when it has failed and is not in house ? > > First, I thought that nut could consider the system boot as a special > case, and if the cable/UPS is not present, just quit gracefully, > possibly with a warning mail. However, this could be dangerous in some > environments. Thus the comportment of nut always shutting down when > configurer is correct. > > So, another idea came to me, which was to use run-levels (e.g. normal > with nut as init 2, and without nut as init 3. Selection done easily > through a LILO menu). However this adds a lot of complexity, and this is > not wanted. > > So, what about a kernel option `disable-services=nut,apache,whatever' > which would be processed by Debian init script and disable the named > services ? > > What do you think ? > > thank you for any idea!
How would that reduce the complexity? You can pass the runlevel at boot without having a special menu option. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
