From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 25 02:55:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D71B16A429 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 02:55:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [204.107.90.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF36D43D45 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 02:55:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: (from tbohml@localhost) by vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id k4P2tFPK002628; Wed, 24 May 2006 22:55:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Tuc at T-B-O-H Message-Id: <200605250255.k4P2tFPK002628@vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> To: mikhailg@webanoide.org (Mikhail Goriachev) Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:55:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <447519F7.304@webanoide.org> from "Mikhail Goriachev" at May 25, 2006 12:44:07 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Anyone using sysutils/nut ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 02:55:16 -0000 > > Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: > > The issue isn't with the upsmon or SHUTDOWNCMD... Its with the > > fact that /etc/killpower gets set, and somewhere you need to put > > "upsdrvctl shutdown". Its during the "shutdown -p now" that at some point > > needs to be run, and if its run in /etc/rc.shutdown then the shutdown isn't > > finished and shutting it off at that point the filesystems are dirty. > > > Oh, I see the dilemma now. In my case my box powers off but the UPS > stays on till it drastically dies (if power is still unavailable). > You're trying to shutdown both the system and the UPS, aren't you? > Exactly, yes. > > So > then they can automatically come back up again when power returns. > That what I want to do, yea. I think I'm finding that the UPS I bought (MGE Ellipse Pulsar) isn't really a UPS, but a toy. Now to decide if I give the next step up (Evolution) a try or is it just wasting more money. Thanks, Tuc