Jozef Hitzinger wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Think it's a good idea? This would let powstatd work correctly > > with UPS unit that don't ignore the kill signal when the power is > > on. > > That's exactly how smartupstools will handle it. I can't think of a better > solution.
It turns out that powstatd checks the status again on the serial line before sending the kill signal, so I _could_ do without this. However, it takes 11 seconds to do this, which makes the `halt' sequence longer by that much. So I might add the file touch anyway. > > What file should I `touch' and then remove? /var/lock/powstatd or > > /var/state/powstatd? > > Since /var/state will be gone, I think something like > /var/lib/<yourpackage>/<markfile> should be ok. Oh yeah, right. Thanks. Peter
