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

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Thu Nov 19 16:54:55 GMT 2020


On 11/19/20 6:48 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> 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 : 


read that as "redhat enterprise linux", of course



> config sits in /etc/ups, the daemons run as user nut
>
> wolfy
>
>





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