Comment 16 for bug 182790

Cool package!

I've had an APC BackUPS ES with a usb since 2002 but never even hooked it up, assuming that was for a Windows world only. I'm glad to have emerged from the darkness. I managed to get it monitoring working well with this package, though I have a few suggestions that I hope can be solved in the packaging installation scripts.

1) I'd suggest the sample scripts installed in their proper locations in /etc/nut/ , with the proper ownership and permissions (nut:nut, 600). These samples can have everything commented out. They don't have to be functional, as long as they don't produce security holes.
root@foo:/# ls -alF /etc/nut/
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 2 nut nut 4096 2008-02-21 16:37 ./
drwxr-xr-x 131 root root 12288 2008-02-21 16:13 ../
-rw------- 1 nut nut 3741 2008-02-21 15:14 ups.conf
-rw------- 1 nut nut 2012 2008-02-21 14:26 upsd.conf
-rw------- 1 nut nut 2422 2008-02-21 15:26 upsd.users
-rw------- 1 nut nut 11950 2008-02-21 15:45 upsmon.conf
-rw------- 1 nut nut 3901 2008-02-21 16:37 upssched.conf

2) Why is /usr/share/doc/nut/examples/upsmon.conf.sample.gz compressed but none of the others? It's bigger, but not huge.

3) I see /etc/init.d/nut and then /etc/init.d/ups-monitor symlinks to -> /etc/init.d/nut ... Why the duplication?

4) Speaking of init scripts, I did have to a couple of lines to my /etc/rc.local that would be nice to have in the init scripts (upstart, as it may be):
/usr/bin/upsdrvctl start apc
/usr/sbin/upsd
/usr/sbin/upsmon

As a reference, I found this howto to be very, very useful for my APC UPS.
http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/ups/backups.html