Apcupsd

Download Source:	http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.14.0.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.

Commands

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.

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=/opt/apc --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

TO DO!

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

Init script IS NOT yet included in the blfs-bootscripts package.

#!/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