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[Cameron Simpson]

On 02Mar2010 17:13, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
| 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.

On my Gentoo box, man apcupsd:

    -d level --debug level
        Set debugging output level where level is a number
        greater than zero.

I don't see a -T. There's a "-t" though.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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