On May 29, 2017, at 5:09 PM, Roger Price <ro...@rogerprice.org> wrote: > > I'm reading man nut.conf, and trying to understand the MODE directive. > > Does the specification mode=netserver mean that only upsd and the driver(s) > will be started, and that upsmon will not be started?
I don't think that's the intent - see below. > The man page says "Distribution’s init script should source this file in > order to determine which components have to be started." But looking at the > code which starts upsd in the openSUSE distribution, it looks as if the file > nut.conf is ignored and mode=standalone assumed. Is this true in other > distributions? > > Roger From Ubuntu 16.04's nut.conf: # The values of MODE can be: # - none: NUT is not configured, or use the Integrated Power Management, or use # some external system to startup NUT components. So nothing is to be started. # - standalone: This mode address a local only configuration, with 1 UPS # protecting the local system. This implies to start the 3 NUT layers (driver, # upsd and upsmon) and the matching configuration files. This mode can also # address UPS redundancy. # - netserver: same as for the standalone configuration, but also need # some more network access controls (firewall, tcp-wrappers) and possibly a # specific LISTEN directive in upsd.conf. # Since this MODE is opened to the network, a special care should be applied # to security concerns. # - netclient: this mode only requires upsmon. So netserver seems to be a superset of standalone, but it's not clear that it has to be different. (Tying in firewalls and so forth seems ambitious to me.) -- Charles Lepple clepple@gmail _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
