From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 15 12:39:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA22514 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 12:39:27 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA22415 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 12:38:00 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA23401; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:35:54 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA04005; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:35:54 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA08437; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:33:52 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511152033.VAA08437@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: APC PowerChute To: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:33:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511151848.NAA27341@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from "chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu" at Nov 15, 95 01:48:43 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1246 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu wrote: > > Anyone have any experience running APC's PowerChute UPS > software under the SCO emulator? We're moving all of our systems (Suns, > DEC's, PC's (running FreeBSD and Linux), and macs (bleck!)) to run on UPS' > since a brown-out earlier this week fried a couple of disks. Any info on > UPS experiences would also be helpful. APC powerchute sucks. At least the SCO version i've seen. I've got the chance to hold my hands on two APC Smart UPSen for a weekend recently. I owe great thanks to Ty Hoeffer, , who's been publishing his knowlege. The result is a simple Smart UPS monitor, and a much more valuable file smartups.h, describing as much of the Smart UPS protocol as i could examine while i've got them available. The result will be in /xperimnt on the 2.1 CD. I would upload it to ftp.{freebsd.org,cdrom.com}, but the lines from Europe are simply terrible these days. The snapshot should be available as ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/people/wunsch/smartups/smartups.tar.gz really soon now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)