Re: [Nut-upsuser] I am a bit confused

2010-07-14 Thread Arjen de Korte
Citeren Manuel Wolfshant : [...]In the past people have requested that the UPS should wait until the hard disks have been stopped (spun down), fearing that killing power to them abruptly might damage them. For that reason, we delay switching off the UPS. I'm not convinced that this is a r

Re: [Nut-upsuser] I am a bit confused

2010-07-14 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 07/14/2010 10:12 PM, Arjen de Korte wrote: [...]In the past people have requested that the UPS should wait until the hard disks have been stopped (spun down), fearing that killing power to them abruptly might damage them. For that reason, we delay switching off the UPS. I'm not convinced tha

Re: [Nut-upsuser] I am a bit confused

2010-07-14 Thread Arjen de Korte
Citeren dur...@mgtsciences.com: I understand now. Not sure why a UPS has a 'shutdown' feature, but, it can't be shutdown before the machine has completed its shutdown. It's not the command to shutdown that's important. Most drivers will at the same time also tell the UPS to switch back on w

Re: [Nut-upsuser] I am a bit confused

2010-07-14 Thread durwin
> Citeren dur...@mgtsciences.com: > > > I have read the shutdown.txt in the docs directory. It says that after > > upsmon calls the shutdown command init takes over. This I understand > > clearly. However, step 8. > > > > 8. init then runs your shutdown script. This checks for the > >POWE

Re: [Nut-upsuser] I am a bit confused

2010-07-14 Thread Arjen de Korte
Citeren dur...@mgtsciences.com: I have read the shutdown.txt in the docs directory. It says that after upsmon calls the shutdown command init takes over. This I understand clearly. However, step 8. 8. init then runs your shutdown script. This checks for the POWERDOWNFLAG, finds it, and t

[Nut-upsuser] I am a bit confused

2010-07-14 Thread durwin
I have read the shutdown.txt in the docs directory. It says that after upsmon calls the shutdown command init takes over. This I understand clearly. However, step 8. 8. init then runs your shutdown script. This checks for the POWERDOWNFLAG, finds it, and tells the UPS driver(s) to power o