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

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 11/19/20 4:09 PM, 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
>
> 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"
>
> 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
>
> I am particularly interested in Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, Mint, Arch and 
> ***BSD.
>
> My thanks for any help you can provide.  Roger 

raspbian, centos & redhat linux : config sits in /etc/ups, the daemons 
run as user nut

wolfy