On Thursday, May 31, 2007, at 02:08PM, "Charles Lepple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 5/31/07, steve harley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> i'd like to install nut on Mac OS X 10.4.9; i can't seem to get the Fink >> install to work (notes below), and i'm only semi-facile at command line >> installs; is installing nut on Mac OS X as simple as "make install" and no >> dependencies? if not is there a summary of what i'd need to do? > >The tricky part about installing on OS X is the integration with the >shutdown system. I currently have a laptop running OS X, and my Cube >just kicked the bucket, so I have not spent the time to figure out how >to have the OS call NUT's shutdown script at the right time to turn >off the UPS at the battery-low signal.
hmm, i suppose i will want to shut down, but my main goal is to be able to query the status of the UPS so i can instigate the shutdown of a remote Mac OS (cringe) 8.6 server >Strange. By "fully up-to-date", you mean that you have run "fink >selfupdate" since installing? yes, several times ... >Also, is this 10.4.9 system an upgrade from 10.3? yes it is; your question prodded me to try installing Fink fresh on another machine -- nut showed up right away, and seems to have installed properly, so i must have bungled the gesticulations for updating Fink -- thanks for the nudge, though! >What does "fink --version" return? on the installation that _did_ list nut: Package manager version: 0.24.17 Distribution version: 0.8.1 on the installation that _did not_ list nut: Package manager version: 0.27.1 Distribution version: 0.8.0.rsync powerpc (the difference in the package manager versions is odd) _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
