From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 6 20:49:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07417 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 20:49:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA07369 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 20:48:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 3519 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Feb 1998 04:54:51 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-012698 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199802071457.GAA00739@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 20:54:51 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Powering off the system/UPS Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Calin Andrian , John Fieber Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" On 07-Feb-98 Mike Smith wrote: ... > - Other UPS systems are stupid, and with those the correct course to > take is to reboot, and wait early in the boot phase (well before > filesystems are mounted) until the line power comes back. To do > this, you need a driver. Aside from RO mount of /, do not all mounts happen from /etc/rc, which is in userland. Irregardless, I think kernel drivers are much cooler than silly userland daemons :-) ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313