On Tuesday 29 December 2015 17:25:46 Charles Lepple wrote: > On Dec 29, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > Greetings Charles; > > > > I hope you had a nice Christmas, and will have a happy and > > prosperous new year in 2016. > > Hi Gene, > > Thanks, and same to you! > > > You mentioned upsrw in a message earlier, so I ran it, and found the > > shutdown timeout was only 20 seconds. > > ... > > > So I tried to reset that to 120 seconds, which the battery can do > > nicely, and I have a 20kw in the back yard that is up and running, > > lights back on in 16 or 17 seconds, so is 98% moot, but found I > > cannot, even as root, adjust this. > > > > gene@coyote:~$ upsrw -s ups.delay.shutdown=120 myups > > Username (gene): gene > > Password: my user pw here > > Unexpected response from upsd: ERR ACCESS-DENIED > > See "man upsrw" or > http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsrw.html#_diagnostics > > > Nut was never given a pw on this system. I, and ups however are > > members of group nut, and that has always seemed sufficient until > > now. > > Why it defaults to the username of the logged-in user is beyond me, > and lost in the history of NUT. It's tempting to change that Username > message to at least point out that the username is being looked up in > upsd.users. Since NUT typically drops root privileges early, it makes > it complicated to use the system password file (especially on systems > like Ubuntu where /etc/shadow is only readable by root). > > However, back to your original goal of changing the shutdown delay: > the "upsrw" command seems to have been designed for UPSes like the > original APCs that stored settings in an EEPROM. I don't think many of > the newer USB-based UPSes have a similar EEPROM (or maybe we override > that), but the upsrw settings for the usbhid-ups driver (assuming you > are still using the Belkin UPS you mentioned previously) are not > permanent. > > I think you want to set "offdelay = 120" (and "ondelay = 150" or so) > in /etc/nut/ups.conf to allow two minutes between NUT starts the > shutdown, and when the UPS finally cuts power.
Thanks Charles. I saw a couple other things I changed, but the help above shows in upsrw that it has been changed. So we'll have to see how it goes if I am present at the next power fail event. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
