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author Robby Workman2010-05-11 15:18:33 +0200
committer Michiel van Wessem2010-05-11 15:18:33 +0200
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+APCUPSD can be used for power management and controlling most of APC's UPS
+models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of APC's
+Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such as Back-UPS
+and BackUPS-Office.
+
+This buildscript veers from the "accepted" installation of apcupsd, but for
+what I believe you'll see are justifiable reasons. The stock install of
+apcupsd detects its presence on Slackware and attempts to patch the system's
+/etc/rc.d/rc.6 script and places the rc.apcupsd script inside /etc/rc.d
+(instead of DESTDIR/etc/rc.d - in essence, it touches files outside DESTDIR).
+I don't view this as even remotely acceptable, so the build script disables
+the distribution-specific installation to prevent messing with files outside
+DESTDIR; however, this does make it require some manual configuration after
+installation.
+
+After installing, see /usr/doc/apcupsd-3.14.0/README-SLACKWARE for more
+information on how to modify rc.6 and how to start the apcupsd daemon
+automatically at boot.
+