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...h HAL about NUT drivers. HAL autoconfigures for UPS devices based on hotplug notifications. Gnome Power Manager (or KDE equivalent) replaces upsd and upsmon. Advantages: Zero configuration. Disadvantages: Poor support, or more likely no support at all, for serial and network UPSes. Scenario 3: Nutless Somebody (quite likely me) writes a lightweight monitor daemon spawned by udev rules; it replaces upsd/upsmon in installations from Linux binary packages. Advantages: Zero configuration. No HAL dependency. Disadvantages: No support for serial and network UPses. Discuss... -- <a href=&q...

...NE: I was originally going to recommend the following steps: 1. Drop continuing support for everything but smart USB UPSes. 2. Flush upsd/upsmon and replace them with a simple, single-process monitor driven by hotplug requests and with zero configuration. (I have this mentally labeled 'nutless'.) Then Arnaud Quette explained to me about the HAL abstraction work. That seems to be heading in the right direction, which is zero configuration and simply making the status messages from the UPS available in a well-known place. So I'm now thinking that. for distribution-packaging purpo...