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This page is just a general guide, and doesn't directly relate to the source files of the project.

Why

The template configuration files that come installed with packages often include lots of comments and non-necessary lines.

This process helps cut to the core of what is really being configured.

Example: NUT

Note Original Files and Permissions

# ls -l /etc/nut/
total 52
-rw-r----- 1 root nut   1543 Apr  8 16:50 nut.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root nut   5649 Apr  8 16:57 ups.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root nut   4577 Apr  8 16:42 upsd.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root nut   2183 Apr  8 17:18 upsd.users
-rw-r----- 1 root nut    227 Apr  8 17:33 upsmon.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root nut   3887 Jan 24  2017 upssched.conf

Copy original as template

All future commands are done in /etc/nut/.

# cp nut.conf nut.conf.template

Clear out commented lines.

The first grep gets lines that don't start with #. The second one clears out blank lines.

# cat nut.conf.template | grep -v '#.*' | grep . > nut.conf
# cat nut.conf
MODE=netserver

Sample Clean Configs

Note the find command. Credit to someone on stack overflow for that.

# find /etc/nut/ -type f -not -name "*.template" -print -exec cat {} \;

/etc/nut/upssched.conf
CMDSCRIPT /bin/upssched-cmd

/etc/nut/upsd.users
[upsmon]
    password = fixmepass
    upsmon master

/etc/nut/nut.conf
MODE=netserver

/etc/nut/upsmon.conf
MINSUPPLIES 1
SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown -h +0"
POLLFREQ 5
POLLFREQALERT 5
HOSTSYNC 15
DEADTIME 15
POWERDOWNFLAG /etc/killpower
RBWARNTIME 43200
NOCOMMWARNTIME 300
FINALDELAY 5
MONITOR old-smart-1500 1 upsmon fixmepass master

/etc/nut/upsd.conf
LISTEN 0.0.0.0 3493

/etc/nut/ups.conf
maxretry = 3
[old-smart-1500]
    driver = usbhid-ups
    port = auto
    desc = "The APC UPS at the bottom of the rack."