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Chuck Swiger writes:

>  > I am not looking for anything extraordinary. Just something, that can 
>  > gracefully shut down my system if I lose power. An occurrence that 
>  > transpires habitually in the northeast USA when I reside,
>  
>  Your bog-standard APC brand plus sysutils/apcupsd port works fine
>  for me for less than, say 3000 volt-ampere UPS.

	Apcupsd is good stuff - I use it - but reading the docs is
essential.  There are a number of issues (some applicable to
FreeBSD) that require manual configuration.


				Robert Huff