Lindsay Allen wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Dean A. Roman wrote: > > > >I've had a similar problem. Switched to nut, and that seems to be > > >working just fine for me. I have a Smart-UPS 620 with smart cable. > > > > I haven't received any reply from the apcupsd debian developer. > > Does anyone know if he still works on this package? > > I also haven't found anyone using Debian that has this package working. > > Was it ever tested to work with Debian? > > > > I'll try nut and see what happens. > > APCUPSD gave me the same problem - it failed to shutdown the box though > the log had an entry saying that it was being shut down. > > So I tried nut but got nowhere with that either. There were several > problems including one about not running even as root, which is Q1 in the > FAQ. Is it not the maintainer's job to make it work? There was also a > major issue about the config as the docs mentioned a config file which is > not in the package. I forget the details and that computer is out of > service for a while so I can't look it up. > > We really need a debian-UPS list for while so that we can co-ordinate > effort on this matter. > > Cheers, > Lindsay > --- >
Hello all, I just wanted to report back that I finally got APCUPSD working on my Debian woody machine with a APC SmartUPS 700 UPS. The maintainers of apcupsd have a pretty good web site also(www.apcupsd.org) with instructions, downloadable code, mail archives, etc. I have been emailing Kern Sibbald and the apcupsd mail list about the problems with this package under Debian and he suggested I download the source, then compile it from scratch. Turns out to be a very clean install and compile. The configure file is setup to install cleanly under Debian and recognizes Debian automagically. 10 minutes after following the instructions, I had apcupsd up and running, then shutting down my machine. 5 more minutes and I had it configured in network mode and had it shutdown 2 machines. If we could get the Debian maintainer of this package to build it with the correct options, I think this package would turn out to be very useful for a lot of people. Thanks, ---Dean Roman.
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