nut - 2.6.1 - new port for 'nut-client'

[gforeman02@…]

I would like to request a new port for 'nut-client' only install. It should only include functionality needed to monitor a ups on another system.

[gforeman02@…]

I was able to get this working via the existing 'nut' macport by doing the following:

1. Setup Macports
2. port install nut
3. cp /opt/local/etc/upsmon.conf.sample /opt/local/etc/upsmon.conf
4. update upsmon.conf as appropriate for your environment
5. add the plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons
6. REBOOT. I found that this was the only way to get the plist to load. I am sure there is a better way, but this was easy and worked.
7. check that the process is running with ps -ef | grep upsmon

If you see something like:

  0   148     1   0  8:17AM ??         0:00.04 /opt/local/sbin/upsmon -D
500   250   148   0  8:18AM ??         0:00.23 /opt/local/sbin/upsmon -D

You should be good since nut is running two processes. One is for root and the other is for the nut user installed via macports.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

If you're saying that this is functionality already available, along with other components, in the nut port, and you would like a nut-client port that only includes this capability, and not the other components, then this would be an ideal time to use subports, rather than a complete new port.