[gentoo-user] apcupsd settings for hibernate+shutdown?

[Walter Dnes]

I'm running an APC UPS on Gentoo linux (Back-UPS XS 1300G).  Up till
now, I've used the UPS in "dumb" mode; i.e. no acpusd running.  My main
concern has been short power blips, and under/over-voltage.  All I
wanted was a few minutes to shut down or hibernate the PC before the
battery gave out.  I've enabled the "Master/Controlled outlets" feature.
I have the PC plugged into the Master, and a surgeprotector powerbar
into a Controlled outlet.  The monitor/speakers/modem/etc are plugged
into the surgeprotector.  When I manually hibernate the PC, the ups cuts
off power to the peripherals connected to the surgeprotector (connected
to the "Controlled outlet").

  I may be getting a contract soon that involves crunching huge text
files, with multi-hour overnight data runs, etc.  I'll launch a run, and
leave things unattended for hours on end.  Let's assume I start a run,
go away for the day, and a power outage hits.  My Google searches always
seem to turn up hits involving sending warning messages to users that
the system may be going down soon.  What I actually want to happen in an
extended power outage is...

* have the system execute the command "/usr/sbin/hibernate" to save
  program state, etc to disk, and then shut down.

* shut down the APC ups afterwards.

  Note that once "/usr/sbin/hibernate" is launched, you have to assume
that the ups immediately loses contact with the PC, ***BUT THE UPS MUST
STAY ON FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES AFTERWARD*** to give the PC time to shut
down gracefully.  Will "KILLDELAY 180" give 3 minutes safety margin?
And what do I have to do to get it to execute "/usr/sbin/hibernate"?  As
per instructions from the install, I've done...

rc-update add apcupsd.powerfail shutdown

...which is supposed to tell the ups to shut down when the PC shuts down.
Colour me confused...

* does the ups not shut itself down due to BATTERYLEVEL/MINUTES/TIMEOUT?
* if so, why does it need the "apcupsd.powerfail" service in my PC's
  shutdown runlevel?

Here are my config file and apcaccess status output...

*** /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf file ***
UPSCABLE usb
UPSTYPE usb
LOCKFILE /var/lock
SCRIPTDIR /etc/apcupsd
PWRFAILDIR /etc/apcupsd
NOLOGINDIR /etc
ONBATTERYDELAY 6
BATTERYLEVEL 15
MINUTES 5
TIMEOUT 0
ANNOY 300
ANNOYDELAY 60
NOLOGON disable
KILLDELAY 180
NETSERVER on
NISIP 0.0.0.0
NISPORT 3551
EVENTSFILE /var/log/apcupsd.events
EVENTSFILEMAX 10
UPSCLASS standalone
UPSMODE disable
STATTIME 0
STATFILE /var/log/apcupsd.status
LOGSTATS off
DATATIME 0

*** apcaccess status ***
APC      : 001,037,0914
DATE     : 2013-01-13 03:17:56 -0500  
HOSTNAME : d531
VERSION  : 3.14.8 (16 January 2010) gentoo
UPSNAME  : d531
CABLE    : USB Cable
MODEL    : Back-UPS XS 1300G 
UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: 2013-01-13 03:15:05 -0500  
STATUS   : ONLINE 
LINEV    : 122.0 Volts
LOADPCT  :   7.0 Percent Load Capacity
BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
TIMELEFT :  60.0 Minutes
MBATTCHG : 15 Percent
MINTIMEL : 5 Minutes
MAXTIME  : 0 Seconds
SENSE    : High
LOTRANS  : 088.0 Volts
HITRANS  : 136.0 Volts
ALARMDEL : Always
BATTV    : 27.2 Volts
LASTXFER : No transfers since turnon
NUMXFERS : 0
TONBATT  : 0 seconds
CUMONBATT: 0 seconds
XOFFBATT : N/A
SELFTEST : NO
STATFLAG : 0x07000008 Status Flag
MANDATE  : 2012-07-06
SERIALNO : [ deleted ]  
BATTDATE : 2012-07-06
NOMINV   : 120 Volts
NOMBATTV :  24.0 Volts
NOMPOWER : 780 Watts
FIRMWARE : 864.L6 .D USB FW:L6
APCMODEL : Back-UPS XS 1300G 
END APC  : 2013-01-13 03:17:56 -0500

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications