[Nut-upsuser] grep ID /etc/os-release

[Phil Stracchino]

On 11/19/20 9:09 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> I would like to build a list of the user names and configuration file locations 
> for the most common distributions which include NUT.  So far I have:
> 
>   Distrib    User   Config directory
>   debian     nut    /etc/nut/
>   opensuse   upsd   /etc/ups/
> 
> These will be used to produce more user-friendly tools and documentation for 
> NUT. If you use some other distribution, could you report
> 
> 1. How does the distribution identify itself?
>     Suggestion: command  grep ID /etc/os-release

minbar:root:~:2 # cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System release 2.7


> 2. Which non-root user is used to run the upsd and upsmon daemons?
>     Suggestion: command  ps -ef | grep upsd | grep -v -E "grep|cupsd"

minbar:root:~:6 # ps aux | grep $(which upsd)
nut       5738  0.0  0.0   6064   448 ?        Ss   Nov01   1:28
/usr/sbin/upsd


> 3. Where does the distribution place the NUT configuration files?
>     Suggestion 1: command  locate upsd.conf | grep -E "^/etc" | grep -v cups
>     Suggestion 2: command  ls -d /etc/*/* | grep "upsd.conf" | grep -v cups


Gentoo uses /etc/nut


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