slackbuilds_ponce/system/apcupsd
Robby Workman f2cba331fa system/apcupsd: Updated for version 3.14.9.
Signed-off-by: Erik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org>
2011-10-11 21:20:31 -05:00
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apcupsd.info system/apcupsd: Updated for version 3.14.9. 2011-10-11 21:20:31 -05:00
apcupsd.logrotate
apcupsd.SlackBuild system/apcupsd: Updated for version 3.14.9. 2011-10-11 21:20:31 -05:00
doinst.sh
README system/apcupsd: Updated for version 3.14.8 2010-05-13 00:39:36 +02:00
README.SLACKWARE
slack-desc system/apcupsd: Fixed for bash4. 2010-05-19 02:47:46 -04:00

APCUPSD can be used for power management and controlling most of APC's UPS 
models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of APC's 
Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such as Back-UPS
and BackUPS-Office.

This buildscript veers from the "accepted" installation of apcupsd, but for 
what I believe you'll see are justifiable reasons.  The stock install of 
apcupsd detects its presence on Slackware and attempts to patch the system's
/etc/rc.d/rc.6 script and places the rc.apcupsd script inside /etc/rc.d 
(instead of DESTDIR/etc/rc.d - in essence, it touches files outside DESTDIR).
I don't view this as even remotely acceptable, so the build script disables 
the distribution-specific installation to prevent messing with files outside 
DESTDIR; however, this does make it require some manual configuration after 
installation.

After installing, see /usr/doc/apcupsd-3.14.8/README.SLACKWARE for more
information on how to modify rc.6 and how to start the apcupsd daemon 
automatically at boot.