On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:34:59AM +0300, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
> Hello folks!
>
> People looking for a UPS with Linux support may find this useful:
>
I gather it is not open software, is it? Do *we* remember to ask for
full disclosure documentation when purchasing hardware?
> I just installed
Does it have a serial or usb interface?
> a 1KVa S1000 unit from Sustainer (www.sustainer.co.il,
> Bar Kochba 8, Bnei Brak, 03 5793686).
>
> It comes with the usual Win s/w with lots of pretty buttons and
> clock-like displays. It also comes with a grotty little tar file for
> Linux, containing the upsmon monitoring daemon and a text mode status
> display.
>
> They only work in superuser mode (yes, the display too), but work they
> do. The daemon does not support simple start and stop parameters. To
> stop it, kill -9 ... . That means, that writing a "standard" start/stop
> script in not on. Too bad for what follows.
>
> The documentation is written in a rather quaint Taiwanese English, and
> assumes that you can "intall" the daemon by editing an rc.local script.
> Of course in my SuSE 8.1 setup there aint no such thing, and I won't go
> into the morbid details here, beyond remarking that you need to add an
> S<something> file to kick off the daemon, to (say) the run levels 3 & 5
> directories under /etc/init.d.
>
> All this crud would make it a bit of a pain for a newbie.
>
> DAF
>
Can you run it under strace and post the output? I hope that sending
the long output to the list is a good idea because the list's archiving
feature. Can you provide URLs for the software and/or email me the tar
ball?
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