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[Dingo]

*apcupsd-3.14.9* compiled in *Puppy 3.01*
- http://www.dokupuppylinux.co.cc/programs:ups

[ahoppin]

Thanks for making this pet available, but I'm sorry to say that it didn't work with my usb APC ups (Backups ES 500) and LuPu 525. The error message apcupsd produces suggests that usb support isn't compiled in.

I was considering building from source, but the Ubuntu repository came to the rescue. Both the apcupsd for Lucid Lynx (3.14.6) and the one for Precise Pangolin (3.14.10) installed. These are actually Debian builds, according to their log output. Both seem to work fine, though I haven't given them an exhaustive workout.

The 3.14.10 version is easier to install as it doesn't require any additional libraries on my system, whereas 3.14.6 required libsnmp. Note that I have the development sfs (compiler) installed, which you might need if you don't already have it.

Hope this helps someone.

[ahoppin]

There are a few minor changes you need to make in order to use apcupsd for Precise Pangolin Ubuntu with Lucid Puppy. This works for 525 and probably for 528, and maybe for various other Puppy versions. It should also work with any recent generic version of apcupsd, possibly with a few slight adjustments.

Note that if you install an update to apcupsd some time in future, you will have to apply these changes again.

What this does:

1. It adds approximate equivalents to two standard Linux commands that are missing in Puppy.

2. It sets up Puppy to start the UPS daemon when it boots. The Ubuntu installer tries to do this, but fails because Puppy's startup scripts are different from Ubuntu's.

Follow these steps:

Download the attached file apcupsdmods.zip and save it to /tmp.

In a console window, issue these commands:

cd /tmp
xarchive apcupsdmods.zip

In xarchive, select the two files, wall and pshutdown, and click the Extract button. Exit Xarchive.

Now, type these commands:

chmod ugo+x wall pshutdown
mv wall pshutdown /sbin
cd /etc/apcupsd

Next, you need to edit the file /etc/apcupsd/apccontrol.

From a console window, issue the commands

cd /etc/apcupsd
geany apccontrol

go to line 23 (or pretty close to that). It's the line that reads
SHUTDOWN=/sbin/shutdown

Edit that line so that it reads
SHUTDOWN=/sbin/pshutdown

Save the file.

Now edit the system startup script. Issue this command from your console window:

geany /etc/rc.d/rc.local

At or near the bottom of this file (the exact position isn't very important) add this line

apcupsd

Save the file.

That's it. You're done. Next time you boot your computer, you should see a message telling you that apcupsd started successfully. When you shut it down, you'll see another couple of lines saying that apcupsd exited.