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

[Mark Hansen]

On 11/19/2020 6:09 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
> 
> 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
> 

For CentOS 7 the user is 'nut' and the config directory is /etc/ups