Re: PowerD UPS Daemon (Re-post)

[Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci redhat com>]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, L. Christopher Luther wrote:

> I don't know if the list ever received my first post (yesterday about this
> time), so I'm posting again in hopes that there is a PowerD guru out there
> in RH Land.  
> 
> My new RH 8.0 is connected to a UPS via its serial port.  I noticed in
> /etc/inittab that there are references to using the powerd daemon for

I think that is vestigal and can be mostly ignored.

> monitoring an UPS.  But why doesn't RH 8 come with the powerd daemon or a
> RPM file?  

There is a utility called 'nut' that shippes in later releases of Red Hat Linux that
can provide similar functionality to powerd. Have a look at that before trying to
get powerd working.


-- 

Matthew Galgoci		"If you were a woman I'd kiss you right now."
System Administrator
Red Hat, Inc
919.754.3700 x44155