A way to temporarily disable rc.powerfail from /etc/inittab

[jrothey]

We have been having a few problems with one of our APC UPSs and we're in the midst of migrating to a new one. The problem is that when we pull the UPS offline a message gets walled to all our users. Is there a way to just temporarily disable this feature until we get the system back up and stable on another UPS?

 

[p5wizard]

What does the UPS line(s?) in /etc/inittab look like?

off hand:
Comment out the line - put a colon in front of it -
or set the 3rd keyword to "off".
Save the file, then run "telinit q" to force the init process to re-read the inittab file

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[jrothey]

This is what the line reads in inittab:

powerfail:owerfail:/etc/rc.powerfail 2>&1 | alog -tboot > /dev/console # Power Failure Detection

So put a # in front of the line and run "telinit q"?

 

[p5wizard]

no - inittab comment char is a colon ':'

comment out:

owerfail:owerfail:/etc/rc.powerfail 2>&1 | alog -tboot > /dev/console # Power Failure Detection

or modify to off:

powerfail:ff:/etc/rc.powerfail 2>&1 | alog -tboot > /dev/console # Power Failure Detection


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[hfaix]

just like p5wizard said.

use a : for a comment sign

 

[p5wizard]

Or you can put an "exit 0" as the first line in the script /etc/rc.powerfail, that way you don't have to modify inittab and don't have to "telinit q".


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[jrothey]

Thanks for the help and input, this worked and will allow me to do the testing that we need.