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diff --git a/system/apcupsd/README b/system/apcupsd/README index 5e4534c3d9c81..d306345bc7d42 100644 --- a/system/apcupsd/README +++ b/system/apcupsd/README @@ -1,16 +1,17 @@ -APCUPSD can be used for power management and controlling most of APC's UPS -models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of APC's -Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such as Back-UPS -and BackUPS-Office. +APCUPSD can be used for power management and controlling most of APC's +UPS models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of +APC's Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such +as Back-UPS and BackUPS-Office. -This buildscript veers from the "accepted" installation of apcupsd, but for -what I believe you'll see are justifiable reasons. The stock install of -apcupsd detects its presence on Slackware and attempts to patch the system's -/etc/rc.d/rc.6 script and places the rc.apcupsd script inside /etc/rc.d -(instead of DESTDIR/etc/rc.d - in essence, it touches files outside DESTDIR). -I don't view this as even remotely acceptable, so the build script disables -the distribution-specific installation to prevent messing with files outside -DESTDIR; however, this does make it require some manual configuration after +This buildscript veers from the "accepted" installation of apcupsd, +but for what I believe you'll see are justifiable reasons. The stock +install of apcupsd detects its presence on Slackware and attempts to +patch the system's /etc/rc.d/rc.6 script and places the rc.apcupsd +script inside /etc/rc.d (instead of DESTDIR/etc/rc.d - in essence, it +touches files outside DESTDIR). I don't view this as even remotely +acceptable, so the build script disables the distribution-specific +installation to prevent messing with files outside DESTDIR; +however, this does make it require some manual configuration after installation. After installing, see /usr/doc/apcupsd-3.14.13/README.SLACKWARE for more |