Bug 25379 – apcupsd ignores config file

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sylvain Demers 2003-07-27 11:57:25 UTC]

I have the "NETSERVER=off" line in the /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf file.  However, 
when I use the "/usr/sbin/apcaccess status" command, I get: 
 
FATAL ERROR in apcaccess.c at line 278 
tcp_open: cannot connect to server localhost on port 3551. 
ERR=Connection refused 
 
 
I also tried setting "NETSERVER=on", and I get the same problem.  Apcupsd's 
documentation states that it should start the listening service by itself.  Also, 
sometimes the documentation refers to "NETSTATUS" instead of "NETSERVER", so I 
tried with both: same result. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
 



apcupsd-3.10.5-r3

[Comment 1 Michael Imhof (RETIRED) 2003-11-01 03:56:40 UTC]

I can reproduce this bug over here.
It's really annoying.

[Comment 2 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-11-01 04:08:46 UTC]

I can replicate the "NETSERVER off" error with sys-apps/apcupsd-3.10.5-r3
and sys-apps/apcupsd-3.10.5-r4.  "NETSERVER on" works just fine however.

[Comment 3 Michael Imhof (RETIRED) 2003-11-01 04:51:09 UTC]

Okies, i look into this:

You have to use
NETSERVER on
in your apcupsd.conf. With NETSERVER OFF this problem still occurs.

The ebuild installs a new apcupsd.conf which has NETSERVER on into it.
So i guess you just didn't update your apcupsd.conf as recommended.

I'll also bump the ebuild to 3.10.6 as it runs great over here.


Please report back if this solves your problem.

[Comment 4 Sylvain Demers 2003-11-01 08:55:05 UTC]

3.10.6 does solves the problem on my end. I did update my apcupsd.conf file
back with 3.10.5, but I always set NETSERVER off since I didn't see the point.

BTW, for others, apcupsd takes a couple of seconds to open it's port, so
checking right after restarting it will yeild the same result. Give it about
10 seconds. After realising that, I thought maybe 3.10.5 was ok after all,
as it didn't work right away so I emerged 3.10.6. Also, I put "NISIP 127.0.0.1"
in my apcupsd.conf file since I'm the only one who will be using that.

However, 3.10.6 now uses the -s switch for sendmail, which Postfix doesn't
like.  I created a new bug report (32471, with a patch) which includes this
"-s" problem as well as bad headers when apcupsd is sending mail.

[Comment 5 Michael Imhof (RETIRED) 2003-11-01 11:19:58 UTC]

Good. Thanks for your help.

I edited the 3.10.6 ebuild several time to make sure cgi's etc. get installed
into the right location. (apache/apache2).

Closing this bug now.