Bug 642106 – sys-power/nut: upslog fails to start due to missing options in init script.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description Gustav Schaffter 2017-12-23 13:03:41 UTC]

The init script for sys-power/nut doesn't pick up the UPSLOG_OPTS variable from /etc/conf.d/upslog or doesn't correctly forward the information to the upslog binary.

(Alternatively the variable is not named correctly in the provided /etc/conf.d/upslog configuration file?)




I had to fiddle around with the init script to get upslog started.

=> Original contents of /etc/init.d/upslog :

start() {
        ebegin "Starting upslog"
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec ${bin}
        eend $?
}


=> The following works (but may not necessarily adhere to 'best practices'. I'm not an init-script developer.)
My solution was to add the ' -- ${UPSLOG_OPTS}' part of the start-stop-daemon command.

start() {
        ebegin "Starting upslog"
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec ${bin} -- ${UPSLOG_OPTS}
        eend $?
}


=> Removing the --quiet was very helpful during the investigations:

start() {
        ebegin "Starting upslog"
        #start-stop-daemon --start --exec ${bin}
        eend $?
}


Don't know what the final standardized and proper solution will be, but my work-around should put some lights on the problem.
Furthermore, there should probably be some code to verify the existence of the /etc/conf.d/upslog file plus that the variable UPSLOG_OPTS is set to something (like: if [[ ! -z "${UPSLOG_OPTS}" ]])

Still, it *could* just be that the variable UPSLOG_OPTS is given the wrong name in the package-provided /etc/conf.d/upslog configuration file.


The above is equally valid in versions 2.6.5-r1 and (~)2.7.4-r1 but I haven't verified the intermediate versions.

[Comment 1 xdarma 2023-07-20 08:13:38 UTC]

My solution was:
1) create a /etc/conf.d/upslog file like

# Config file for /etc/init.d/upslog
# UPS to log
UPS="APCSMC1500@localhost"
# log file
LOG="/var/log/upslog.log"
# switch user
#USER="nut"

2) edit /etc/init.d/upslog file like
start() {
        ebegin "Starting upslog"
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec ${bin} -- -s ${UPS} -l ${LOG}
        eend $?
}

3) restart service

That works for me. :-)