papaschtroumpf Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 I have several applets (wizards?) in the Mandrake Comntrol Panel that are not clickable, i.e. when I hover the mouse over it, the cursor doesn't change from an arrow to a hand, indicating that it can be clicked, and clicking it does nothing. One is the UPS setup applet, the other one is something like "setup other hosts" or something like that (not atthatcomp atm), whcih I assume is an GUI to edit your hosfile. Is it a free/non-free issue? I installed Spring 2007 free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 The UPS applet is most likely inactive because the necessary ups programs have not been installed such as ....nut.... and ....nut-server.... If you are using an APC brand of ups then you need to install .......apcupsd and apcupsd-gapcmon . The first is the backend (cli) while the second is the gui front end. With them you do not need nut and nut-server and you do not set them up with MCC. See my other thread regarding UPSs. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted May 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 I saw your thread asking for help, is scared me... :) I installed apcupsd but it's not detecting the UPS (at least apctest doesn't seem to) but I have barely started to play with it. Next in line is making sure the other end of the cable truly is plugged in the UPS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted May 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 I was only joking in the post above, but it turned out that it truly was the problem! I have 3 computers sitting side by side, and I had plugged in the monitoring cable in the kids' machine, not my mandrake box Now apctest properly talks to the thing instead of showing some "fatal message at line xxx" kinda message According to rpmdrake there is no such package as apcupsd-gapcmon, even with plf sources included. Did you have to download it from a non-mandrake repository? If there si a GUI I'd rather use that than set it all up in config files the way I used to do it with my previous UPS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 This is opensource non-commercial software, and as such unlikely to be found in PLF. Can you hit it with a plain "urpmi gapcmon" ? The projects apcupsd and the GUI one (gapcmon) were recently split in Sourceforge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 As I said in my ups thread, apcupsd is originally from a website by that name. Just type it in the google box in Firefox and it will come up. At the website you will also find an rpm for Mandriva called....... apcupsd-gapcmon. take note it is exactly as I typed it. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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