[Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse 800 shutdown problems - using upsmon NOTIFYCMD

[Charles Lepple]

On 10/24/07, tovis <mailer.tovis at freemail.hu> wrote:
> > Please upgrade to a more recent version first. I have to dig deep into
> > the old sources to help here, which is taking me too much time. If you
> > need more help, I suggest you first upgrade to at least nut-2.2.0.
> OK
> That mean I need to build from sources and somehow make it Debian
> compatible, using old version scripts - may be build my own packet (I
> never do it before exclude kernel). May be I can use package for testing
> version.

Starting in the top level NUT directory:

$ ln -s Packaging/debian .
$ debuild -us -uc

The built .debs will be stored one directory up.

> Also I never use sudo - many sources agree that is unsecure.

There are other alternatives, such as chiark-really, or using suidperl.

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- Charles Lepple