[ltp] APMD

Markus Alt linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 05 Mar 2001 17:09:47 +0100


Geert Janssen wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I noticed some discusion going on on apm and apmd.
> I just wanted to say that in version 3.0final's man page it is
> mentioned that by default it expects "apmd_proxy" to reside in
> "/etc/apmd/". I dutifully did that and then discovered that the
> script wasn't run when I suspended etc.
> Careful examination of the "apmd" executable revealed that it
> expects the proxy script to be "/etc/apmd_proxy".
> So either move the file or use the -P option to apmd
> (e.g. in /eytc/sysconfig/apmd).
> Maybe this little flaw exists in other version as well.

On SuSE 7.1 it resides under /usr/sbin/apmd_proxy and presumably it has
been there on former SuSE versions as well. But as you said, the apmd
daemon calls it via the -P option by default (without any changes from
my side).

Markus

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