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Hello,
This message is to announce the third and last beta version of the Year 2000
apcupsd release:
apcupsd-3.7.0-beta3
This third beta version has undergone a huge amount of debugging.
Apcupsd is a daemon for monitoring APC UPSes. It is able to detect power
failures and shutdown the computer if the UPS power is getting too low.
It is able to shutdown multiple networked computers powered by a single
UPS with the monitoring UPS informing the others via the network.
- - Where you can find it?
ftp://ftp.oasi.gpa.it/pub/apcupsd/development/apcupsd-3.7.0-beta3.tar.gz
- - Highlights of this release.
.. Bug fixes and enhancements: too many to tell them all
- - This is a call for testers.
This is the third beta version of what will be released as apcupsd-3.7.0.
The code freeze is in place and will last for a week. In this time we
will address the last few problems that may still be present.
The software is completely developed under Linux and will compile cleanly
and will work under linux.
Porting has been addressed for Solaris and this platform should work.
Porting is being addressed for HP-UX, where the actual code should compile
cleanly and, due to the changes made for Solaris, should work as well.
If you own an APC UPS attached to a Linux machine or you want to realize a
setup like this, or you are already a user of an older version of apcupsd
and you have even a machine on which to install this version, please step
forward. We need testers and any bug report will be more than welcome.
If you own a Solaris or HP-UX machine and you want to attach an APC UPS to
it and try this version of apcupsd, probably you will find that
apcupsd is the best UPS monitoring tool for you.
- - What to do if you find bugs
send an e-mail to one of the developers
or
send an e-mail to apcupsd-devel _at_ ro.com (Developers mailing list)
or
go to the Apcupsd Support Center http://www.brisse.dk/site/apcupsd/
and leave a message (at this time should be the last resort because Brian
is moving and doesn't have time to manage incoming e-mail).
- - Changes from 3.7.0-beta2 to 3.7.0-beta3
Bumped version to beta3 and released.
Applied kern diffs, see techlogs/kes09Jan00
Changed clean_threads() in apcexec.c not hang on waitpid, and make
sure we do all we can to kill the childs.
Updated INSTALL file to make clear that prior to install a new version
of apcupsd over an old version, is advisable to make uninstall.
Corrected a syntax error in distributions/*/apccontrol.sh.in.
Changed suse halt.local script to:
. do something only if a powerdown is detected.
. kill the processes before remounting read only the filesystems.
Corrected a minor cosmetic (-Wall) in apcnetd.c
Added -Wall to default CFLAGS.
Applied kern diffs, see techlogs/kes06Jan00
Kern minor changes to configure.in.
Thanks to Tom Schroll, corrected an execv nasty error in apcexec.c.
Applied kern diffs, see techlogs/kes30Dec99
Warning: if you are using the new network information server, please upgrade
all your machines or remove the old machines from hosts.config since the
network protocols betweek beta2 and beta3 are not compatible.
That's all for now.
Ciao,
Riccardo.
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