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BPOWERD

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
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NAME

bpowerd - monitor UPS status for Best Patriot power supplies

SYNOPSIS

bpowerd [-k] <device>

DESCRIPTION

bpowerdis used to monitor a serial port for the status of a Best Patriot power supply.It runs as a daemon and sends status information to the system log. bpowerdcan detect powerfail, battery-low, and power-restore conditions. The status is communicated to init via /dev/initctl. bpowerd can also send a signal to the power supply's inverter by using the -k switch.

OPTIONS

-k: Send kill signal to the inverter. Power will cycle in 2 minutes. This callis deprecated signal the deamon with SIGINT instead.
<device>: Serial port connected to UPS. (usually /dev/ups)

EXITING

Send SIGTERM to kill deamon and exit cleanly, and SIGINT to kill deamon andkill inverter if in powerfail. Do not kill deamon with SIGKILL as it may notclose the serial port and will prevent the deamon from running correctly inthe future. (until the next reboot)

FILES

/etc/rc.d/init.d/bpowerd

sysvinit script to start the bpowerd daemon

/etc/rc.d/init.d/bpowerfail

script called by init with (start|now|stop) argument when power eventis signalled

/etc/inittab

Contains definitions of scripts to be run by init when signalled bybpowerd

The following lines should be present:

pf::powerwait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/powerfail start

pn::powerfailnow:/etc/rc.d/init.d/powerfail now

po::powerokwait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/powerfail stop

AUTHOR

Program: Christopher Craig <ccraigAATTccraig.org>
Manual page: Mitch Blevins <mblevinAATTdebian.org>
Changes by Christopher Craig

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