From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 15 14:52:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA19691 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 14:52:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA19639 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 14:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA06644; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:51:02 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA10295; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:51:02 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA18034; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:45:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607152145.XAA18034@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: APC ups monitor? To: port-i386@netbsd.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:45:29 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jutz@atvideo.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Andrew Webster at "Jul 15, 96 03:05:56 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andrew Webster wrote: > The folks at APC also sell the *spec* on the communication protocol used > between the UPS and the PC. For $50 and a signed N.D.A., they will send > you a book describing how it works. Hehehehe. They are too late. The Smart UPS protocol has been re-engineered long ago. You can get a working UPS daemon somewhere on ftp.ww.net, there's a mailing list (upsd-list@ww.net), and the latest package will ship on the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM. Alexis Yushin, the author of upsd, did also make an official FreeBSD `port' out of it. I'd instantly assume that zero to minor modifications would be required to get it going on NetBSD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)