From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 22:43:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA05457 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:43:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.dyn.ml.org (host77-59.airnet.net [209.64.77.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05449 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:43:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@ninbox.dyn.ml.org) Received: from ninbox.dyn.ml.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA03520; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 00:41:25 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <34F66015.E4FEE1B6@ninbox.dyn.ml.org> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 00:41:25 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Reply-To: kris@airnet.net Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bryce Newall CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APC UPS References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bryce Newall wrote: > I have an APC BackUPS 600 that my FreeBSD box is attached to. Back in the > dark days when I ran Linux, I had a program called genpowerd, which, along > with a custom-made cable, would initiate an automatic shutdown of my > system in the event of a power failure. This has saved me on more than > one occasion. Unfortunately, as I suspected, said program does not > compile under FreeBSD. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a similar daemon > for FreeBSD that will work with this UPS. The cable isn't a problem -- I > can easily obtain either the "smart" or "simple" signaling cable for this > particular UPS model, or I can custom-make a different cable. Have you tried making a COMPAT_LINUX kernel and installing a Linux-emulation library? -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message