APC UPS control system manual Building and Installing apcupsd, Installation from Binary Packages

The DEVICE setting is blank on purpose; apcupsd will automatically locate your UPS.

The delay-, timeout-, and NIS-related settings should be configured as per your usual preference.

Building and Installing apcupsd

Installation from Binary Packages

Red Hat Linux:

For Red Hat systems, apcupsd is available in binary RPM format. This is the simplest way to install. If you have no previous version of apcupsd on your machine and are creating a standalone configuration, simply install the RPM with a normal rpm -ihv command. You’re done, and can now skip the rest of this chapter and go straight to tweaking your run-time configuration file. (see After Installation)

If you have a previous installation, you can upgrade with a normal rpm -Uhv, but this may not upgrade the halt script. It may be better to do the upgrade as a remove (rpm -e) foll;owed by a fresh install (rpm -ihv).

After installation of the binary RPM, please verify carefully that /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt was properly updated and contains new script lines flagged with ***APCUPSD***.

Since there is no standard location for cgi-bin, the rpm will place the binary CGI programs in the directory /etc/apcupsd/cgi. To actually use them, you must copy or move them to your actual cgi-bin directory, which on many systems is located in /home/httpd/cgi-bin.

Microsoft Windows:

If you have a binary release of the Win32 apcupsd, please see the instructions in the Advanced Topics (see Advanced topics) section of this manual.

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