[Nut-upsuser] USB UPS and FreeBSD

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 13:33, Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H wrote:
> 	I'm using the ports... And there is the nut.sh, which I use. The
> problem is that you are also supposed to put in the "upsdrvctl shutdown" at
> some point where the filesystems are mounted read only so you don't get
> file corruption.

I don't believe there is any point in the shutdown process where the disks are 
unmounted but userland is running. AFAIK the kernel does the unmounting just 
before the shutdown.

> > Make sure you have a shutdown gracedelay though - FreeBSD doesn't run any
> > scripts after the disks are unmounted so you must start the UPS shutdown
> > phase before the disks are unmounted, hence the need for a grace delay.
>
> 	Where is this set then, no one else has mentioned it.

Depends on your UPS. HID UPSs have a standard way and you should be able to 
put "offdelay=120" in the section for your UPS in ups.conf.

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