on 3-2-2010 2:13 PM m.roth at 5-cent.us spake the following: > Ok, so another apc UPS 3000 complained about bad batteries, and I changed > them out from the same order that I'd gotten in a couple of months ago. > > The APC SmartUPS 3000 started connecting and disconnecting the USB > connection. I brought down and up the service, no joy. > > Finally, after googling, I found a *completely* undocumented way to start > apcupsd, that a few years ago someone was told to try, so as to log > debugging info, to send to a developer: > apcupsd -d1000 -T > I've just skimmed the man page, and the online docs, and there is *no* > mention of either parm. I found nothing in the logs. > > However, when I kill -HUPped it, and restarted the service, the USB stuff > had stopped. Ok, one problem down. > > The change battery light's still on. I'll see if it still is in the > morning. One thing I did note, while skimming the docs, and comparing my > results from apcaccess, was that while the nominal voltage for the APC > SmartUPS 3000 is 48V, the new batteries are showing 55.4V. Anyone have any > idea if this could be why the replace battery light's on - it's more than > 5V difference? > > mark The light might stay on until either the next battery test, or re-setting the stored battery change date. I never have been able to get the date changed from *nix. I usually used a windows laptop with APC software installed. It can probably be done, just never spent a long time trying. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 259 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100316/f48858ea/attachment-0005.sig>