[Nut-upsuser] The name HOSTSYNC is confusing. Can we do better?

[Phil Stracchino]

On 1/19/22 06:10, Roger Price wrote:
> 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.


Good call IMO.


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