[Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

[Gary Redden]

See the poweroff section of the script. My question is:
"Since I do not have much knowledge on how the Linux  system boots and 
shutdown I have spent the last several days searching for how the scrips 
/etc/init.d are supposed to work but every thing I have found is a 
little different than what I find on my Ubuntu system. Does this script 
ever get called with poweroff?"



Peter Selinger wrote:
> For NUT to switch off your UPS at the end of the shutdown sequence,
> you have to edit your shutdown scripts. 
>
> See INSTALL, "Configuring shutdowns for low battery events", item 11
> "Edit your shutdown scripts: add upsdrvctl shutdown".
>
> -- Peter
>
> Gary Redden wrote:
>   
>> Nut will monitor the ups and shutdown Linux when the ups goes to low 
>> battery as it should. But the UPS is not shut down so the system will 
>> restart when the power is restored. If I switch the UPS off , restore 
>> power and switch the UPS on the system will restart. I have not been 
>> able to get nut to switch the UPS off after it brings the system down. I 
>> can get the UPS to switch off  with upscmd load.off. So the UPS can be 
>> controlled. Here is my SHUTDOWNCMD:
>> SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown now -P"
>> I also tried:
>> SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown now -h"
>> I found this script in /etc/init.d/nut and changed the paths to upsd and 
>> upsmon and used it.
>> #! /bin/sh
>> #
>> # nut - Script to start and stop Network UPS Tools daemons
>>
>> PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
>> NAME=nut
>> DESC="Network UPS Tools"
>> DEFAULT=/etc/default/nut
>>
>> [ -f $DEFAULT ] || exit 0
>> . $DEFAULT
>>
>> pid_dir=/var/run/nut
>> upsmon_pid=${pid_dir}/upsmon.pid
>> upsd_pid=${pid_dir}/upsd.pid
>> upsd=/usr/local/ups/sbin/upsd
>> upsmon=/usr/local/ups/sbin/upsmon
>> upsdrvctl=/usr/local/ups/bin/upsdrvctl
>> log=">/dev/null 2>/dev/null"
>>
>> # Check if /var/run/nut exists and has the correct perms
>> check_var_directory() {
>>         [ ! -d ${pid_dir} ] && mkdir -p ${pid_dir} \
>>                 && chown root:nut ${pid_dir} \
>>                 && chmod 770 ${pid_dir}
>> }
>>
>> start_stop_server () {
>>   case "$START_UPSD" in
>>     y|Y|yes|YES|Yes)
>>       case "$1" in
>>         start)
>>           ! $upsdrvctl start >/dev/null 2>&1  &&  \
>>             echo -n " (upsdrvctl failed)"
>>           start-stop-daemon -S -q -p $upsd_pid -x $upsd >/dev/null 2>&1
>>           ;;
>>         stop)
>>           start-stop-daemon -K -o -q -p $upsd_pid -n upsd >/dev/null 2>&1
>>           ! $upsdrvctl stop >/dev/null 2>&1  &&  \
>>             echo -n " (upsdrvctl failed)"
>>           ;;
>>       esac
>>       ;;
>>     n|N|no|NO|No|*)
>>       return 1
>>       ;;
>>   esac
>> }
>>
>> start_stop_client () {
>>   case "$START_UPSMON" in
>>     y|Y|yes|YES|Yes)
>>       case "$1" in
>>         start)
>>           start-stop-daemon -S -q -p $upsmon_pid -x $upsmon >/dev/null 2>&1
>>           ;;
>>         stop)
>>           start-stop-daemon -K -o -q -p $upsmon_pid -n upsmon >/dev/null 
>> 2>&1
>>           ;;
>>       esac
>>       ;;
>>     n|N|no|NO|No|*)
>>       return 1
>>       ;;
>>   esac
>> }
>>
>> case "$1" in
>>
>>   start)
>>     echo -n "Starting $DESC:"
>>     check_var_directory
>>     start_stop_server start && echo -n " upsd"
>>     start_stop_client start && echo -n " upsmon"
>>     echo "."
>>     ;;
>>
>>   stop)
>>     echo -n "Stopping $DESC:"
>>     start_stop_server stop && echo -n " upsd"
>>     start_stop_client stop && echo -n " upsmon"
>>     echo "."
>>     ;;
>>
>>   reload)
>>     $upsd   -c reload >/dev/null 2>&1
>>     $upsmon -c reload >/dev/null 2>&1
>>     ;;
>>
>>   restart|force-reload)
>>     echo -n "Restarting $DESC:"
>>     start_stop_client stop
>>     start_stop_server stop
>>     sleep 5
>>     check_var_directory
>>     start_stop_server start && echo -n " upsd"
>>     start_stop_client start && echo -n " upsmon"
>>     echo "."
>>     ;;
>>
>>   poweroff)
>>     flag=`sed -ne 's#^ *POWERDOWNFLAG *\(.*\)$#\1#p' 
>> usr/local/ups/etc/upsmon.conf`
>>     wait_delay=`sed -ne 's#^ *POWEROFF_WAIT= *\(.*\)$#\1#p' 
>> /etc/default/nut`
>>     if [ -f "$flag" ] ; then
>>       if $upsmon -K >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
>>         echo "Shutting down the UPS ..."
>>         sleep 1
>>         if $upsdrvctl shutdown ; then
>>           sleep 5
>>           echo -n "Waiting for UPS to cut the power"
>>         else
>>           echo "Shutdown failed."
>>           echo -n "Waiting for UPS batteries to run down"
>>         fi
>>         if [ "$wait_delay" ] ; then
>>           echo " (will reboot after $wait_delay) ..."
>>           sleep "$wait_delay"
>>           /etc/init.d/reboot
>>         fi
>>       else
>>         echo "Power down flag is not set (UPS shutdown not needed)"
>>       fi
>>     else
>>         if [ -z "$flag" ] ; then
>>           echo "##########################################################"
>>           echo "## POWERDOWNFLAG is not defined in /etc/nut/upsmon.conf ##"
>>           echo "##                                                      ##"
>>           echo "## Please read the Manual page upsmon.conf(5)           ##"
>>           echo "##########################################################"
>>         fi
>>     fi
>>     ;;
>>
>>   *)
>>     N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
>>     echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|reload|restart|force-reload|poweroff}" >&2
>>     exit 1
>>     ;;
>>
>> esac
>>
>> exit 0
>> Since I do not have much knowledge on how the Linux  system boots and 
>> shutdown I have spent the last several days searching for how the scrips 
>> /etc/init.d are supposed to work but every thing I have found is a 
>> little different than what I find on my Ubuntu system. Does this script 
>> ever get called with poweroff?
>>
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