README.SLACKWARE Written by Jason Graham You'll need to start the pwrstatd service at boot. The recommended way is to add the following to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local script: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pwrstatd ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.pwrstatd start fi Make sure the rc.pwrstatd script is executable. The configuration file /etc/pwrstat.conf contains the default upstream power management settings. Power management settings can be changed using this file (and restarting the pwrstatd service) or by using the pwrstat utility (see man pwrstat for the details). The /etc/powerpanel directory contains the scripts pwrstatd-powerfail.sh and pwrstatd-lowbatt.sh which are executed for various power events. These need to be modified if you would like to receive email notification of any related power events. The shutdown.sh and hibernate.sh scripts contain the commands for shutting down and hibernating the system, respectively. Unfortunately, the pwrstatd service has these scripts hardcoded to be located in /etc so there are symbolic links in /etc for each of these files.