POWERD
POWERD
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
CONFIGURATION FILE
ARGUMENTS
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
NAME
powerd − UPS monitoring daemon
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/powerd [tty]
DESCRIPTION
powerd
monitors the serial port connected to an UPS device and will
perform an unattended shutdown of the system if the UPS is
on battery longer than a specified number of minutes.
powerd needs to watch a tty with modem control
properties. Please refer to the powerd documentation
for further information.
powerd also has the capabilities of notifying other
clients on the network that may have a UPS but not be
connected to the serial line that there is a power outage,
and id configured through the powerd.conf file
CONFIGURATION FILE
Here is the
configuration format:
Lines beginning with ’#’ are ignored.
MODE <mode>
specifies the mode the UPS should be in. Valid arguements are MONITOR and PEER MONITOR being the mode to actually watch a UPS serial port, and PEER being to listen for a connection from a machine in MONITOR mode
MONITOR <device>
Specifies which device to monitor while in MONITOR mode. Specify an actual device file. Example: /dev/ttyS0
POWERFAIL <line> <high|low>
Specifies which lines on the
serial ports indicate that the power is out. Valid
arguements are DCD, CAR, CTS, and RNG. Also specify if the
line being HIGH or LOW indicates a power failure.
Since most people may not know this arguement, Please use
the enclosed upsdetect program to automatically find
this line.
NOTIFY <hostname[:port]> <password>
Specified in MONITOR mode to notify a client running in PEER mode. Specify the hostname of the machine, and optional port the daemon is running on, And the password as specified by their LISTEN command. See below for more details.
LISTEN <hostname> <password>
Specified in PEER mode, specifies a hostname that is allowed to notify us of when the power is out, and the password they shall give us to authenticate themselves. The 2 passwords should match on the MONITOR mode machines NOTIFY password, and the PEER modes LISTEN password.
LISTENPORT <port>
Specified in PEER mode, specifies the port that powerd should listen on. If you use this arguement, powerd shall not default to using port 532, and the machine in MONITOR mode must specify the port you use in their NOTIFY command.
DELAY <delayinseconds>
Specifies how many seconds before notifying init of a power outage. Note that this doesnt mean that the system will shut down in that many seconds, as it depends on how init is configured. Init usually issues a 2 min shutdown.
USER <username>
Specifies which username to drop to from root. The program will reobtain root access only when it needs to, Like when notifying init that the power is out. This is simply a security feature, and not needed for powerd to operate. Note: powerd must still be run initially as root. It will then drop to the user if, and only if, a username is specified.
ARGUMENTS
None: Please use the configuration file /etc/powerd.conf which can be generated with detectups. See detectups(8) for more information
FILES
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/etc/powerd.conf |
powerd configuration file | |||||
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/etc/powerstatus |
indicates line power status | |||||
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/etc/inittab |
init is what actually issues the | |||||
|
shutdown |
SEE ALSO
powerd(8), shutdown(8), wall(1), init(8), inittab(5).
AUTHOR
James Brents <James@nistix.com> (with parts of this man page borrowed from all over the Linux community)
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