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diff --git a/system/apcupsd/README b/system/apcupsd/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6646eb7aec --- /dev/null +++ b/system/apcupsd/README @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +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-3.14.0/README-SLACKWARE for more +information on how to modify rc.6 and how to start the apcupsd daemon +automatically at boot. + |