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-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