On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 05:49:57PM -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Stephen Harris wrote: > > # WARNING: the apccontrol file will be overwritten every time you update > > your > > # apcupsd, doing `make install'. Your own customized scripts will _not_ be > > # overwritten. If you wish to make changes to this file (discouraged), you > > # should change apccontrol.sh.in and then rerun the configure process. > > > > If you can't change apcupsd.conf config to meet your needs then _don't_ > > change apccontrol; add a custom script that does an "exit 99" to prevent > > the shutdown from running. > > It looks like you're right... EXCEPT that you missed the part about > changing apccontrol.sh.in, which appears to me to be something you get if No I didn't. It's not relevant to rpm installs. > you build apcusd, rather than just install it via yum. And there's no > other obvious way to deal with not wanting to shut it down if you have > multiple machines, and don't want to ever have it tell everybody to shut > down. Yes there is; create a custom script for the command ($1) that you want to trap and make it exit 99; then apccontrol will not continue on to the shutdown part. Which I said previously. > Suggestions on what I can do *other* than build the package myself? I Read what apccontrol does; determine the commands you want to trap (probably doshutdown, doreboot) and create a script of that name in /etc/apcupsd/ and make it "exit 99". FWIW, my UPS trips many times... eg Oct 8 10:03:11 myhost apcupsd[9774]: Power failure. Oct 8 10:03:15 myhost apcupsd[9774]: Power is back. UPS running on mains. Oct 10 20:57:12 myhost apcupsd[9774]: Power failure. Oct 10 20:57:14 myhost apcupsd[9774]: Power is back. UPS running on mains. Oct 11 18:51:35 myhost apcupsd[9774]: Power failure. Oct 11 18:51:38 myhost apcupsd[9774]: Power is back. UPS running on mains. You might want to check apcaccess for expected runtime $ apcaccess | egrep 'STATUS|LOADPCT|BCHARGE|TIMELEFT|MBATTCHG|MINTIMEL' STATUS : ONLINE LOADPCT : 24.0 Percent Load Capacity BCHARGE : 100.0 Percent TIMELEFT : 36.1 Minutes MBATTCHG : 5 Percent MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes -- rgds Stephen