On 6 Nov 2012, at 21:56, "m.roth at 5-cent.us" <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Anyone else around using apcupsd? I seem to be seeing a problem, and I'd > like someone to check me on it: I edit /etc/apcupsd/apccontrol to replace > the value of SHUTDOWN from /sbin/shutdown to /bin/false (we don't want 3 > or 6 servers shutting down over a 2 second or so blip, which it really > wants to do). Odd behaviour. I have it running on CentOS 5, OpenBSD and windows and none of these show this behaviour. I installed through yum. What settings do you have on the UPS itself? Are the servers attached to a control group with low priority? Mike