** Description changed: For me on Ubuntu 16.04, `apcupsd` doesn't start when using `sudo systemctl start apcupsd` or `sudo service apcupsd start`. It didn't appear in `ps aux | grep apc` and I got: - % systemctl status apcupsd - ● apcupsd.service - LSB: Starts apcupsd daemon - Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apcupsd; bad; vendor preset: enabled) - Active: active (exited) since Wed 2018-01-10 22:21:00 CET; 34min ago - Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) - Tasks: 0 - Memory: 0B - CPU: 0 + % systemctl status apcupsd + ● apcupsd.service - LSB: Starts apcupsd daemon + Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apcupsd; bad; vendor preset: enabled) + Active: active (exited) since Wed 2018-01-10 22:21:00 CET; 34min ago + Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) + Tasks: 0 + Memory: 0B + CPU: 0 Note the `active (exited)` and no processes shown. I suspect that in this case the `systemd-sysv-generator` messed up and cannot correctly start this SysV-Init unit. So basically, the systemd service seems broken in this version of Ubuntu. I fixed it by just installing a proper systemd unit using: - curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johannbg/systemd-units/4c7ac61a6bf390a4899954f78820d49587b360d7/projects/apcupsd/service/apcupsd.service | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/apcupsd.service - sudo systemctl daemon-reload + curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nh2/e6089d30ddc6be6191037b5098f1adb9/raw/f08e4174286cbba6ab19f619d896da265cb81552/apcupsd.service | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/apcupsd.service + sudo systemctl daemon-reload After that, I can `sudo service apcupsd start` all fine. That service file has contents - [Unit] - Description=APC UPS Power Control Daemon for Linux + [Unit] + Description=APC UPS Power Control Daemon for Linux - [Service] - ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /etc/apcupsd/powerfail - ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apcupsd -b -f /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf + [Service] + ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /etc/apcupsd/powerfail + ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apcupsd -b -f /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf - [Install] - WantedBy=multi-user.target + [Install] + WantedBy=multi-user.target I don't know if upstream debian has the same problem, but the same fix would work there.
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