zypper install apcupsd reports error

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#1

New installation of opensuse 13.2 x86-64. Yast online update was run after installation. No trouble seen.

I went to install apcupsd


zypper install apcupsd
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following NEW package is going to be installed:
  apcupsd 

1 new package to install.
Overall download size: 316.2 KiB. Already cached: 0 B  After the operation, additional 1.5 MiB will be 
used.
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y): y
Retrieving package apcupsd-3.14.11-3.2.10.x86_64                  (1/1), 316.2 KiB (  1.5 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: apcupsd-3.14.11-3.2.10.x86_64.rpm ...................................................[done]
Checking for file conflicts: ....................................................................[done]
(1/1) Installing: apcupsd-3.14.11-3.2.10 ........................................................[done]
Additional rpm output:
Updating /etc/sysconfig/apcupsd...
usr/bin/grep: etc/sysconfig/shutdown: No such file or directory
apcupsd: WARNING: Unknown value of HALT_POWERDOWN_INSERT in /etc/sysconfig/shutdown.
         Keeping unchanged. Should be:
HALT_POWERDOWN_INSERT=""


linux-y98f:~ # rpm -qa | grep apcupsd
apcupsd-3.14.11-3.2.10.x86_64
linux-y98f:~ #

The binaries appear to be present in /usr/sbin/, and the example files are present in /etc/apcupsd/.

#2

It is a warning not an error

Check the file mentioned /etc/sysconfig/shutdown

Maybe change the line if it exists

On the other hand I don’t have that file here and it may be from an older system set up. But the test still exists in the package install script

#3

File does not exist here, either. I don’t usually invoke zypper from a command line like that. If I had used Yast Software Management panels, perhaps the message would have been hidden.

I have not yet configured apcupsd for testing.

#4

I suspect it is package code from a while back since sysconfig is old school and going away eventually:’(