Re: [Astlinux-devel] bug in UPS init.?

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

Hi David,

My thought was to temporarily add "admin" permissions, hence edit /etc/ups/upsd.users and "restart".  Not something I wanted to have stick around in /mnt/kd/ups/ .

But looking at /etc/init.d/ups, editing /mnt/kd/ups/upsd.users and "stop", "init" should work just fine as well. Look at what gets autogenerated when /mnt/kd/ups/upsd.users is not defined, and start with that ... but you must replace the master password in /mnt/kd/ups/upsd.users with the @MASTER_PASS@ token which is randomly generated and shared across the files.

-- /mnt/kd/ups/upsd.users snippet --
[master]
password = @MASTER_PASS@
upsmon master
--

I suspect that was your original problem. (ERR ACCESS-DENIED)

Lonnie



> On Aug 6, 2020, at 2:23 PM, David Kerr <Da...@Ke...> wrote:
> 
> Lonnie,
>   I see that you were editing the file /etc/ups/upsd.users.  I was editing the file /mnt/kd/ups/upsd.users (because that is what the instructions said to do as the one in /etc is generated from that).  So my edits would persist across reboots, yours would not (at least I don't think so... have not tried... unionfs comes into play too).  My expectation was that having edited the file in /mnt/kd/ups and doing a service ups init,  that would have caused the new file to get picked up.  But it was not.
> 
>  I had looked at the etc/init.d scriipt and observed that I needed to do an init to pick up the changes in mnt/kd. I did not realize I also had to do a restart, that was not expected.  So I stand by my original statement that doing an init should not just rebuild the /etc files, it should also make sure that they are read.
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 10:24 PM Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...> wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Years ago I wanted to disable the beeper on a Tripp-Lite UPS, below are the steps I used.  Possibly it might help you.  Step 1 was key.
> 
> 
> 1) Edit /etc/ups/upsd.users and add the lines:
> --
> [admin]
> password = pass
> instcmds = all
> --
> 
> 2) Apply the change without rebuilding the config files.
> --
> service ups restart
> --
> 
> 3) List what commands are available
> --
> upscmd -l ups
> --
> 
> 4) In this case "beeper.disable" was the desired command
> --
> upscmd -u admin -p pass ups beeper.disable
> --
> 
> 5)  Display UPS responses
> --
> upsc ups
> --
> 
> 6) Restart "ups" rebuilding the config files.
> --
> service ups stop
> service ups init
> --
> 
> 
> Lonnie
> 
> 
> > On Aug 5, 2020, at 8:18 PM, David Kerr <Da...@Ke...> wrote:
> > 
> > As I prepare to enjoy multiple days without power or internet I have been trying to reconfigure my UPS as it is sending LOWBATT far too early.  I tried to use upsrw command to set values into the UPS but kept getting...
> > 
> > Unexpected response from upsd: ERR ACCESS-DENIED
> > 
> > Even after editing upsd.user file.  After which I would do a 
> > service ups init
> > Well it turns out that is not good enough.  It regenerates all the config files but it does not reload the new config files.  It has to be followed by a
> > service ups restart
> > 
> > Or... the init script could do a stop before the init?
> > Or... the init script could send a reload to upsd?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > David
> > 
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