Re: [Nut-upsuser] unclear about expected shutdown behavior

2016-12-24 Thread Spike
Dear Charles and Roger, thank you for your help, once again I tried to google around but forgot to check launchpad's bugs. Indeed that was it and creating the script as mentioned in the second bug made it work: box was powered down, UPS was then shut down and it came back up along with the box a

Re: [Nut-upsuser] unclear about expected shutdown behavior

2016-12-24 Thread Charles Lepple
> On Dec 24, 2016, at 3:14 AM, Roger Price wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Dec 2016, Spike wrote: > >> ... from reading the docs it seems the UPS should power off, is that the >> case? > > Yes, The UPS should be sent a "delayed shutdown" command, upsdrvctl shutdown, > to tell it

Re: [Nut-upsuser] unclear about expected shutdown behavior

2016-12-24 Thread Roger Price
On Sat, 24 Dec 2016, Spike wrote: ... from reading the docs it seems the UPS should power off, is that the case? Yes, The UPS should be sent a "delayed shutdown" command, upsdrvctl shutdown, to tell it to shut down _after_ the box. The amount of the delay can be set in ups.conf. The UPS

[Nut-upsuser] unclear about expected shutdown behavior

2016-12-23 Thread Spike
Dear all, first post here and wanted to start by thanking everybody who made this possible. I've been reading the docs and setting up NUT from packages on ubuntu xenial. I have nut[-client,-server] installed, version 2.7.2-4ubuntu1. My UPS is an Eaton 5S 1500, which I picked from the list of