APC UPS

[nathan r. hruby]

On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 11:01 AM, Michael George wrote:

> I've got a couple packages of apcupsd (3.5.8 and 3.8.5) as src.rpms, 
> but whenever I try to run "rpm --rebuild <package>.src.rpm", I get 
> "<package>.src.rpm: No such file or directory".
>
> What the heck is that?  The file's right there in the CWD!
>

rpm --rebuild ./<package>-blah...

or

rpm -i <package>-blah ; cd /usr/src/rpm/SPECS ; rpm -bb ./<specfile>

> Anyway, I'll look for nut and nut-cgi and try them...
>
> Thanks!
>

Hope they do what you want.

-n

> -Michael
>
> On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 09:32  AM, nathan r. hruby wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 09:01 AM, Michael George wrote:
>>
>>> Okay, that would be fine...  I've been looking for apcupsd (and now 
>>> upsd) on the Yellowdog site, and I can't find it.  I grabbed the SRPM 
>>> for RHL7.1, but I've never built and RPM from the SRPM and it keeps 
>>> giving me errors ("cannot find file X" when X is in the same 
>>> directory from which I run the command).
>>>
>>
>> to rebuild an rpm frpm a source rpm (as root) issue "rpm --rebuild 
>> foo-version.src.rpm" the binary rpm should be in 
>> /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc.  There's probably a nifty way to do it with apt 
>> as well.. but I haven't really had the time to learn how to compile 
>> packages yet
>>
>>> Do you know where I can find upsd either in ppc.rpm or ppc.src.rpm 
>>> form?
>>
>> Nope, but you can try nut (it might even be installed, if not "apt-get 
>> install nut nut-cgi") which should monitor your ups (and other things) 
>> just fine.
>>
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