[gentoo-user] Wall is not working and wondering about upsmon too.

[Dale]

I had myself a funny a bit ago.  I plugged in a heater and tripped a
breaker which made my UPS kick in for a minute.  After getting that
corrected, turned off the heater, I noticed something strange.  My UPS
kicked in but nothing came up on the screen.  It used to be that wall
would broadcast a message to the screen.  I got nothing.  I check my
logs and it noticed that the UPS was on battery and it said it walled a
message.  Is walled a word?

Anyway, I tested this theory by typing in "wall this is a test" in a
Konsole and nothing happened.  Here is what my log says:

> Oct 23 06:06:21 smoker upsmon[9966]: Someone pulled the plug on ups@××××××.net
> Oct 23 06:06:21 smoker wall[18762]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (43 chars)
> Oct 23 06:08:11 smoker upsmon[9966]: UPS ups@××××××.net is getting line power
> Oct 23 06:08:11 smoker wall[20331]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (42 chars)
> Oct 23 06:09:25 smoker wall[22865]: wall: user root broadcasted 1 lines (6 chars)
> Oct 23 06:10:01 smoker cron[24078]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons )


Can someone shed some light on what happened to wall?  This is strange.
 Also, if someone has a CyberPower UPS and wouldn't mind, how about
sharing your configs?  I'm just not real sure about my setup here.
Maybe wall is just throwing me a curve at the moment.  I would like mine
to just turn off if power is lost longer than about 15 minutes or so
instead of running my batteries down.

Thanks for any light you can shed on this issue.

Dale

:-)  :-)

For those who noticed the change of email address, yup, I moved.  I got
married, we got on each others nerves, I left, papers are in the works.
 This means I have more time to spend on my rig now.  I even got my old
addy back.  LOL

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