From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 7 21:08:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA27541 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 21:08:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA27534 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 21:08:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA03613; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 21:49:40 -0700 Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 21:49:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Andrew N. Edmond" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPS: Un-interruptable Power Supply In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, Andrew N. Edmond wrote: > I am in the market for a FreeBSD aware UPS system. I have been talking > to friends who say that there might be a UPS system that can tell FreeBSD > to 'shutdown' when it finally runs out of juice. Any thoughts? There is some development going on to support the APS SmartUPS series. They're having to reverse-engineer the thing since APS won't give them the command structure, but I guess there are some beta daemons out. We keep intending on getting it and trying it on one of our boxes, but we keep putting it off. Check the -questions archive for the URL; I don't have it off the top of my head. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major