On Feb 12, 2008 11:08 AM, Huge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have compiled and installed NUT-2.2.1 on Solaris 10 on my Sunblade > 2000 and it seems to work very well, except that the behaviour of > 'wall', which upsmon uses to report significant events, may differ on > Solaris from other systems. On Sol10, wall writes the message *only* on > the console, unless the "-a" switch is used. On a standard JDS (GNOME) > system, there isn't normally a console window, so I never see the > messages. > > Is this the same behaviour as elsewhere? The Linux man pages imply > otherwise.
I definitely see "wall" messages on all ssh connections on my Linux (Ubuntu) test machine. > Anyway, I've modified upsmon to call "wall -a" instead of "wall" and it > now does what I want. Do you (or anyone else running Solaris) know if this behavior changed in Solaris 10? > Is it worth making this a configuration option or putting it in the > documentation somewhere? Indeed, would anyone be interested in my notes? > I don't know how many Sun SPARC users of NUT there are... It doesn't sound too complicated to add in a check in the configure script. (That's why I'm interested in whether it is just Solaris 10, or if it has been this way for a while.) As far as your notes are concerned: I would hazard a guess that for every user who asks about a problem on a mailing list, there are several others who will encounter the same problem but give up and try something else, rather than emailing to ask. Thus, IMHO, the more OS-specific information we can provide to users, the better. -- - Charles Lepple _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
