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upsdrvctl(8)

NAME

   upsdrvctl - UPS driver controller

SYNOPSIS

   upsdrvctl -h

   upsdrvctl [OPTIONS] {start | stop | shutdown} [ups]

DESCRIPTION

   upsdrvctl provides a uniform interface for controlling your UPS
   drivers. You should use upsdrvctl instead of direct calls to the
   drivers whenever possible.

   When used properly, upsdrvctl lets you maintain identical startup
   scripts across multiple systems with different UPS configurations.

OPTIONS

   -h
       Display the help text.

   -r directory
       If starting a driver, this value will direct it to chroot(2) into
       directory. This can be useful when securing systems.

   This may be set in the ups.conf with "chroot" in the global section.

   -t
       Enable testing mode. This also enables debug mode. Testing mode
       makes upsdrvctl display the actions it would execute without
       actually doing them. Use this to test out your configuration
       without actually doing anything to your UPS drivers. This may be
       helpful when defining the sdorder directive in your ups.conf(5).

   -u username
       If starting a driver, this value will direct it to setuid(2) to the
       user id associated with username.

   If the driver is started as root without specifying this value, it will
   use the username that was compiled into the binary. This defaults to
   "nobody", and is far from ideal.

   This may be set in ups.conf with "user" in the global section.

   -D
       Raise the debug level. Use this multiple times for additional
       details.

COMMANDS

   upsdrvctl supports three commands - start, stop and shutdown. They take
   an optional argument which is a UPS name from ups.conf(5). Without that
   argument, they operate on every UPS that is currently configured.

   start
       Start the UPS driver(s). In case of failure, further attempts may
       be executed by using the maxretry and retrydelay options - see
       ups.conf(5).

   stop
       Stop the UPS driver(s).

   shutdown
       Command the UPS driver(s) to run their shutdown sequence. Drivers
       are stopped according to their sdorder value - see ups.conf(5).

       Warning
       this will probably power off your computers, so don't play around
       with this option. Only use it when your systems are prepared to
       lose power.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

   NUT_CONFPATH is the path name of the directory that contains upsd.conf
   and other configuration files. If this variable is not set, upsdrvctl
   the driver use a built-in default, which is often /usr/local/ups/etc.

DIAGNOSTICS

   upsdrvctl will return a nonzero exit code if it encounters an error
   while performing the desired operation. This will also happen if a
   driver takes longer than the maxstartdelay period to enter the
   background.

SEE ALSO

   nutupsdrv(8), upsd(8), ups.conf(5)

   Internet resources:
   The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.networkupstools.org/



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