[SOLVED] Powerflute does not work

booboo-001 · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 19

Hi.

After upgrade Apcupsd to apcupsd-3.12.4 powerflute does not work - just exits with empty output.

Booboo

BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1211 Location: U.S.A.

Did you try re-building powerflute?

booboo-001 · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 19

BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1211 Location: U.S.A.

I don't know. The only thing I can think of is to suggest looking for log messages as you try to start powerflute.

booboo-001 · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 19

Switching NETSERVER to on in apcupsd.conf file solved the problem. Now, it seems that powerflute needs NIS server enabled to work.

BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1211 Location: U.S.A.

I don't know enough about it personally. This might give you some insight though:
http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/Building_Installing_apcupsd.html

From that document, it does look like it relies on NIS.