[Nut-upsuser] Running a script after UPSMON starts

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 2/18/22 11:12, Roger Price wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>
>> On February 18, 2022 12:41:39 AM GMT+02:00, Philip Taylor 
>> <philip at kelsotowers.co.uk> wrote:
>>> I’m wanting to run a bash script after upsmon starts. I can see it’s 
>>> easy to run a script on any notification AFTER upsmon has started 
>>> using NOTIFYFLAG; but I’m struggling to find how to run a script on 
>>> the event of upsmon starting to run. Am I missing something obvious?
>>
>> You should do that via the  mechanism used by your distribution to 
>> manage services.  For instance, if it is using systemd, you would 
>> create a service unit for your script and include inside it "After 
>> upsmon.service"
>
> I would cheat and put a second ExecStart in nut-monitor.service, but 
> that's cheating.

It's not cheating if it works. But that would start the script in the 
same time with upsmon, not after.


Manuel