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This ﬁnal step is important if you want to ensure that your system will automatically reboot when the power comes back on. The actual code used on the Red Hat version is:

# See	if this is a powerfail situation.		# *apcupsd*
if [ -f /etc/apcupsd/powerfail ];		then	# *apcupsd*
echo			# *apcupsd*
echo	"APCUPSD will now power off	the UPS"	# *apcupsd*
echo			# *apcupsd*
/etc/apcupsd/apccontrol killpower			# *apcupsd*
echo			# *apcupsd*
echo	"Please ensure that the UPS	has powered off before rebooting" # *apcupsd*
echo	"Otherwise, the UPS may cut	the power during the reboot!!!"	# *apcupsd*
echo			# *apcupsd*
fi			# *apcupsd*

The above code must be inserted as late as possible in the halt script. On many systems, such as Red Hat, all the disk drives were unmounted, then remounted read-only, thus permitting access to the /etc ﬁles and the apcupsd executable. If your system does not explicitly remount the disks, you must remount them in read-only mode in the code that you add. Examples of code fragments that do this can be found in the distributions/suse subdirectory of the source.

If you are not able to insert the above code in your halt script because there is no halt script, or because your halt script calls the init program as some Unix systems do, you can either just forget about powering oﬀ the UPS, which means that your machine will not automatically reboot after a power failure, or there is yet another alternative, though not at all as satisfying as inserting code in the halt script.

Only if you cannot insert the appropriate code in the halt script, when you start apcupsd, normally from the /etc/rc.d/init.d/apcupsd script, use the --kill-on-powerfail option. This will cause apcupsd to program the UPS to shutoﬀ the power just before it (apcupsd) does the system shutdown. Please note that this is not the most ideal solution. Read on to understand why.

A very important consideration is that you must set the EEPROM in your UPS so that it waits a suﬃcient time for the system to halt before it shuts oﬀ the UPS power. The current value as well as the permitted values for your UPS can be determined by executing:

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