Re: upsd

1998-11-20 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>/dev/null 2>&1 > or > shutdown -h +2 "message" & > The second idea works. Now All I need to do is to get upsd to also kill the power just before the 'system halted' messge gets printed. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: upsd

1998-11-20 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>/dev/null 2>&1 > or > shutdown -h +2 "message" & > The second idea works. Now All I need to do is to get upsd to also kill the power just before the 'system halted' messge gets printed. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: upsd

1998-11-19 Thread Mitch Blevins
Kenneth Scharf wrote: > [snipped long and interesting tale of ups woes..] > Have you tried redirecting the output of shutdown or backgrounding it? Do something like shutdown -c >/dev/null 2>&1 or shutdown -h +2 "message" &

upsd

1998-11-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I installed upsd and made up a cable as per the README.gz file. (I have an APC Back-UPS 400VA). I commented out the required line in /etc/init.d/ups and added the line '/dev/ttyS1' where my ups is plugged in. After rebooting the computer I decided to test it. (Only had the monitor pl

Monitoring upsd

1998-09-01 Thread Jay Barbee
I just hooked my Linux box upto a UPS (APC SmartUPS 900) and I have the serial link hooked up. When I run "/etc/init.d/ups start", it runs, but the following error is logged: /sbin/upsd: log: UPS_ERROR The daemon is still running, but I am not sure if I can determine what is going o