Apcupsd can be used for power mangement 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 /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 the package DESTDIR). I don't view this as even remotely acceptable, so the script patches the Slackware-specific Makefile.in and README file, as well as the main configure script.

After packaging, see the README file in $PKG/usr/doc/apcupsd-$VERSION/ for more information on how to modify rc.6 and how to start the apcupsd daemon automatically at boot.

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 apcupsd.SlackBuild      07-Jan-2007 09:08  3.8K  
 doinst.sh               14-Aug-2006 04:35  743   
 install.diff            07-Jan-2007 09:00  7.9K  
 slack-desc              11-Jun-2006 02:41  446