Topic: UPS Setup boo boo

[Matt]

I made a goof while setting up a Batter BAckup.  I accidentally made it start automattically on startup, with out testing it first.  A couple seconds after the UPS Service loads, it shuts down.  Any suggestions, (I allready tried disabling the serial port in the bios in hopes that it would cause the service to fain and proceed starting up, but that didn't work).  

Any help is appreciated.

[Ray Mitchell]

If you read the HOWTO on powstatd at
http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/powstatdUPSHOWTOv5.5v5.6.txt
it has a section towards the end "Possible problems" which may help you at least get your sme started.
I don't know which config file you need too alter for your "Batter Backup", did you use powstatd or something else ?

To quote:

Another problem you might get if you get the config wrong is the phenomenon of your server shutting down just after it's started up. Try quickly logging in and doing a
shutdown -c
to cancel the shutdown and allow you to modify the config.

If you cannot do this, then try rebooting in single user mode and disable powstatd by renaming /etc/powstatd.conf to something else. Reboot and you should be able to fix the configuration.
To do this press Ctrl X when you see the e-smith or Mitel logo appear on the screen after a reboot. This will start the server at a lilo text prompt.
For sme version 5.6
Type:
Mitel-SME single
or
Mitel-SME 1

For sme version 5.5, 5.1.2, 5.0, 4.1.2 or earlier
Type:
esmith single
or
esmith 1

This boots the server into single user mode.
Then do
mv /etc/powstatd.conf /etc/powstatd.conf.old

then reboot (press Ctrl Alt Del) and redo the configuration setup with the new (correct) configuration parameters.

Regards
Ray