Bug#1906: inittab(5) error

1995-11-27 Thread Ian Jackson
David Scowcroft writes ("Bug#1906: inittab(5) error"): > (1) Update inittab(5), then hack the power daemon to write to > /var/log/powerstatus rather than /etc/powerstatus Surely this file ought to be in /var/run ? It's more like a pid file; it'

Bug#1906: inittab(5) error

1995-11-27 Thread David Scowcroft
Package: sysvinit Version: 2.57b Debian: 0.93 Kernel: 1.2.13 libc:4.6.27 The man page for inittab(5) specifies that init looks at the file /etc/powerstatus to determine why init received a SIGPWR (either FAIL if a UPS signals a power outage or OK if a UPS signals that power is back). Hence,