[Nut-upsuser] NUT under NAS4Free config issue

[Charles Lepple]

On Aug 23, 2013, at 12:49 PM, Incze Andras wrote:

> There is some problem with formatting :(
> 
> If I paste how was written, the structure is wrong formatted, is putted somewhere right after the end of 1st part with master in the generated file.

Can you be more specific? You can attach text files if needed.

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2013, at 5:15 AM, Incze Andras wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, the strange is that I could set in this way the master user.
> 
> That is odd. The development version of NAS4Free seems to be regenerating the entire upsd.users file:
> 
>    http://sourceforge.net/p/nas4free/code/848/tree/trunk/build/ports/nut/files/nut.sh.in
> 
> To address your original concern (adding remote users for monitoring), I would edit the RC file, which is probably /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nut, to include something like this at the end of the nut_mkconf() function:
> 
> cat <<__EOF__ >> ${nut_upsd_users}
>         [monslave]
>                 password = abcd
>                 upsmon slave
> __EOF__
> 
> (Be sure to add it after the line containing "... > ${nut_upsd_users}")
> 
> Of course, this will be lost when you upgrade NAS4Free, but maybe you can convince one of the developers to add this as a core feature, such that the list of slave users can be read from the XML configuration file.
> 
> --
> Charles Lepple
> clepple at gmail
> 
> 
> 
> 


A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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