On Friday 01 Nov 2002 5:01 pm, you wrote: > In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:37:42 +0000: > > You can find most logs in /var/log > I thought I had checked this, but now I've found the relevant lines:
Nov 1 10:13:12 anne-linux ups: upsmon shutdown succeeded Nov 1 10:13:12 anne-linux ups: upslog shutdown succeeded Nov 1 10:13:12 anne-linux ups: upsd shutdown succeeded Nov 1 10:13:12 anne-linux ups: smartups shutdown failed So now it looks as though I have installed most but not all of the relevant modules. > When you run mcc (mandrake control center) you can find the services that > run in the services area of the "system" part of the program. There you can > enable and disable things, also for boot. > I didn't find anything there about these ups modules. I think for the moment my best bet is to look for smartups in software manager or package manager and see if it thinks it is installed. Thanks Anne > >During bootup and shutdown I am getting messages about failures to > > start(?) > > > >smartups and shutdown smartups tools. This may be garbled, as I can't > > find > > > >the log that would give me the wording. > > > >I do have a fairly old ups installed, and I suppose I must have come > > across > > > >something like ups tools when browsing the packages and installed them, > >incompletely. It would be nice if I could ensure a safe shutdown if I > > were > > > >out when problems occur, but if not I would like to get rid of them. > > > >So - where do I find the startup/shutdown logs that show pass/fail, so > > that I can identify the packages? > > > >I presume that the actual package names will appear in the log? If not, > >can anyone help?
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