Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 02:00:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: APC UPS Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980227015802.22162A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980226222122.19247K-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>
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I'm not sure what you mean, or what I mean for that matter ;). What I meant by "front end" is the Makefile for the port. You may already know this, so please, forgive me, but FreeBSD puts together ports in two ways: a front end that has a Makefile, patches, checksum, and description, and a distfile that is the actual source code. Download the "front end" from the http address, then untar it. Then cd to the directory it creates (after tar -xf), and type make all install. FreeBSD will fetch the source, compile it, then install it for you. Like I said, forgive me if you know this already. I must confess, I haven't tried out the upsd port yet. I'm still updating kde ;). Joe Clarke On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Bryce Newall wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote: > > > There was recently an addition to the FreeBSD ports collection that > > handles APC UPSes. It's called UPSd, and you can find the port > > front-end to it at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/sysutils.html. > > I found the port itself, but I can't find a front end anywhere. And > unfortunately, upsd itself doesn't come with a man page, nor, it seems, > any sort of command line help option. Any additional suggestions on that > one? > > Thanks once again. > > ********************************************************************** > * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.org * > * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.org/~data * > * "Stop smirking, Number 1." -- J.L. Picard * > * "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop!" -- EMH Program, ST:FC * > ********************************************************************** > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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