Re: debian & ups

1999-09-03 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
On 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Another thing that interests me is, whether you can export the UPS via > a network block device to another system and if you can split an UPS > into two devices (one local and the other maybe exported over the > network) so that two clients can listen to t

Re: debian & ups

1999-09-02 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
Here's answer from smartupstools author, Russell Kroll .. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 01:04:50 -0600 From: Russell Kroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shutdowns > As you see from the mail a Cc-ed to you (it was on debian-mentors), he was

Re: debian & UPS support

1999-09-02 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
On 31 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have two servers that act as redundant to each other. Now if one > goes down, the second takes over. It would then be nice to > automatically reboot the other by telling the UPS to power down for a > while. > > If the UPS had two serial ports, both com

Re: debian & UPS support

1999-08-31 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
On 25 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What if you have several ups from several vendors all controled by a > central system? But .. that means, that you've got boxes which depend on power controlled by another computer. I don't think it's a good idea. Ok, you will have that computer backed u

Re: /var/state or /var/lock ? Re: debian & UPS support

1999-08-26 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
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. > What file should I `to

Re: debian & UPS support

1999-08-25 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
Sorry for crossposting, but there was little respons on deb-mentors. On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Jozef Hitzinger wrote: > > > Can somebody point me to info on how debian cooperates with UPS? (rtfm is > > ok) I'd also welcome response from th

debian & UPS support

1999-08-24 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
Can somebody point me to info on how debian cooperates with UPS? (rtfm is ok) I'd also welcome response from the person who takes care of debian <-> ups functionality (if there is one). There are several packages for ups monitoring, none of which seems satisfying to me, so I started packaging ano

Re: Directory 'foo' not empty, so not removed

1999-08-19 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Decklin Foster wrote: > > dpkg - warning: while removing muddleftpd, directory `/etc/muddleftpd' > > not empty so not removed. > > This is a standard bug in dpkg. Basically, it tries to remove directories > first, gives the error because the conffile is the

Re: multiple binary package - please help

1999-08-10 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Leon Breedt wrote: > see the packaging-manual, maint-guide packages I've got them printed out. AFAIK, maint-guide doesn't cover multi-bin packages ("as a new maintainer, you're discouraged to do multiple packs or libs"), while packaging-manual talks of dpkg stuff and doesn't

multiple binary package - please help

1999-08-10 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
I've managed to do simple package, but now I need more .. what should I do, apart from adding package section to control and creating package.init etc for each bin package? Should I change something in rules or elsewhere? I'm using debhelper. Pointer to appropriate doc will be enough. Thanx! --

/usr/cgi-bin ?

1999-07-28 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
smartupstools .rpm package puts files in /usr/cgi-bin & /usr/misc. these are not in FHS nor FSSTND, but I thought RedHat holds the FHS. may I put the files there in .deb too, or should I put them elsewhere? (hm - am I asking the question on the right list?) -- jozef :-) Hi! I'm a .signatur

when to chown a file

1999-07-28 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
Hi there. I'm trying to debianise smartupstools (www.exploits.org, very nice). If it'll do, I'd like to apply for a maintainer (it's going to be funny too, as I read the mails here), but for now I'm quite stuck: There are two daemons, running as nobody.nogroup, and they need to access the state