[Nut-upsuser] NUT behaviour when master system fails

[Arjen de Korte]

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> A brief examination of the NUT source code indicates that a system
> "write" statement is being used to communicate across the network with
> the upsd process of the master. We think that this system function
> blocks by default. Maybe the default blocking settings are in use. We
> don't know, this is probably very wide of the mark, but it is the best
> we have come up with!

If this is indeed the cause of the problem, you may wish to upgrade to the
latest version from the SVN trunk. Just two days ago, a change to the
upsclient library was made so that it no longer blocks on read/write
actions.

Best regards, Arjen
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