[Nut-upsuser] The name HOSTSYNC is confusing. Can we do better?
Roger Price
roger at rogerprice.org
Wed Jan 19 11:10:49 GMT 2022
The man page for upsmon.conf explains the HOSTSYNC directive:
> HOSTSYNC seconds
> upsmon will wait up to this many seconds in master mode for the
> slaves to disconnect during a shutdown situation. By default, this is
> 15 seconds.
> When a UPS goes critical (on battery + low battery, or "FSD": forced
> shutdown), the slaves are supposed to disconnect and shut down right away.
> The HOSTSYNC timer keeps the master upsmon from sitting there forever
> if one of the slaves gets stuck.
The explanation is clear. but the name "HOSTSYNC" is not. It seems to me that
if the directive is to provide a maximum time that the primary should wait for
secondaries to shut down, then it would be better if it were called MAXWAITTIME.
Roger
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