Nut upsuser - Sep 2014 - How do I disable messages from upsmon?

I've followed the config setup docs and also the excellent guide from Roger
Price.

I'm using openSUSE 13.1 and built NUT 2.7.2 from the sources (latest
stable).

I'm hooked up to a dummy UPS that basically just cycles from fully charged
down to about 20% discharged.  I was pleased when I started seeing the messages
on my screen indicating the UPS was online or on-battery.  Given how often the
unit cycles, however (about every 30 seconds), it was quickly annoying to get
the system messages, so I went into the upsmon.conf file and commented out the
"online" and "onbatt" NOTIFYFLAG messages.  I then did a
reload of upsmon...but found I was still getting the messages.

Long story short, my upsmon.conf file now consists of a single entry:

MONITOR rtdups at localhost 1 upsmaster sekret master

I'm still getting the onbattery,  online, comm good, comm bad, etc  system
messages.  Clearly there is some default behavior going on.  How do I keep these
system messages from happening?

Thanks

Rob

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20140911/820500c3/attachment.html>

On Sep 11, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote:
> I?m still getting the onbattery,  online, comm good, comm bad, etc  system
messages.  Clearly there is some default behavior going on.  How do I keep these
system messages from happening?
From http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsmon.conf.html:

"NOTIFYFLAG type flag[+flag][+flag]?
By default, upsmon sends walls global messages to all logged in users) via
/bin/wall and writes to the syslog when things happen. You can change
this."

To suppress just the on-battery/online messages:

NOTIFYFLAG ONLINE IGNORE
NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT IGNORE

The full list is just above NOTIFYFLAG in the upsmon.conf documentation.

-- 
Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail

Excellent, thank you!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:20 PM
> To: Rob Groner
> Cc: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] How do I disable messages from upsmon?
> 
> On Sep 11, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm still getting the onbattery,  online, comm good, comm bad, etc
system
> messages.  Clearly there is some default behavior going on.  How do I keep
> these system messages from happening?
> 
> From http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsmon.conf.html:
> 
> "NOTIFYFLAG type flag[+flag][+flag]...
> By default, upsmon sends walls global messages to all logged in users) via
> /bin/wall and writes to the syslog when things happen. You can change
this."
> 
> To suppress just the on-battery/online messages:
> 
> NOTIFYFLAG ONLINE IGNORE
> NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT IGNORE
> 
> The full list is just above NOTIFYFLAG in the upsmon.conf documentation.
> 
> --
> Charles Lepple
> clepple at gmail
> 
>