power-status-changed(7)

power-status-changed7

Event signalling change of power status

Usage

power-status-changed [ENV]...

Overview

The power-status-changed event is generated by the Upstart init(8) daemon when it receives the SIGPWR signal, this has been typically generated by UPS monitoring software such as powstatd(8)

This event is not handled in the default Upstart configuration.

Examples

A task to be run on change of power status might use:

start on power-status-changed

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

  1. 6.0–8

From upstart 1.11-5 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.