Apcupsd
Download Source: | http://downloads.sourceforge.net/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.14.5.tar.gz |
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Introduction to Apcupsd
Apcupsd is a deamon that talks with APC ups and monitors it's status. There are alot of devices that it will work with one should read up on it.
Project Homepage: http://www.apcupsd.org/
Dependencies
Optional
- TCP Wrappers
- GD
- libusb
- Gtk2 and GConf (Required to build gapcmon)
Configuration Information
MANUAL: http://www.apcupsd.org/manual/index.html
--enable-usb: Turns on generation of the USB driver code.
--with-upstype=<YOUR_UPS>: This option allows you to specify the type of UPS that will be connected to your computer
--with-upscable=<YOUR_CABLE>: This option allows you to specify what cable you are using to connect to the UPS
--enable-cgi: Enables the building of the CGI programs that permit Web browser access to apcupsd data
--with-cgi-bin=<CGI_DIR>: Points to your CGI dir
--enable-gapcmon: A Gtk2/GLib2 GUI application used to monitor UPS devices controlled by the APCUPSD package.
--enable-powerflute: Is a ncurses based program to monitor the UPS.
Non-Multilib
Compile the package:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-log-dir=/var/log \ --enable-usb --with-upstype=usb --with-upscable=usb \ --enable-cgi --with-cgi-bin=/srv/www/cgi-bin \ --enable-gapcmon --enable-powerflute && make
Install the package:
make install
Multilib
This package does not provide any libraries so only one installation is needed.
32Bit
Compile the package:
CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD32}" \ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_PATH32" USE_ARCH=32 \ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-log-dir=/var/log \ --enable-usb --with-upstype=usb --with-upscable=usb \ --enable-cgi --with-cgi-bin=/srv/www/cgi-bin \ --enable-gapcmon --enable-powerflute && make
Install the package:
make install
N32
CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILDN32}" \ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32" USE_ARCH=n32 \ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-log-dir=/var/log \ --enable-usb --with-upstype=usb --with-upscable=usb \ --enable-cgi --with-cgi-bin=/srv/www/cgi-bin \ --enable-gapcmon --enable-powerflute && make
Install the package:
make install
64Bit
Compile the package:
CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64}" \ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_PATH64" USE_ARCH=64 \ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-log-dir=/var/log \ --enable-usb --with-upstype=usb --with-upscable=usb \ --enable-cgi --with-cgi-bin=/srv/www/cgi-bin \ --enable-gapcmon --enable-powerflute && make
Install the package:
make install
Configuring
BootScript
Create the bootscript:
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/apcupsd << "EOF" #!/bin/sh # Begin $rc_base/init.d/apcupsd # Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier. # Rewritten by zippo zippo@oppiz.net #$LastChangedBy: oppiz #$Date: 2007-02-15 00:13:00Hrs . /etc/sysconfig/rc . $rc_functions case "$1" in start) boot_mesg "Starting Apcupsd Server..." loadproc /sbin/apcupsd sleep 1 ;; stop) boot_mesg "Stopping Apcupsd Server..." killproc /sbin/apcupsd ;; reload) boot_mesg "Reloading Apcupsd Server..." reloadproc /sbin/apcupsd ;; restart) $0 stop sleep 1 $0 start ;; status) statusproc /sbin/apcupsd ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|reload|restart|status}" exit 1 ;; esac # End $rc_base/init.d/apcupsd EOF chmod -v 754 /etc/rc.d/init.d/apcupsd
Link it into the runlevels:
for link in /etc/rc.d/rc{{0,1,6}.d/K50,{2,3,4,5}.d/S15}apcupsd; do ln -sfv ../init.d/apcupsd $link; done