From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 12 10:40:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com (smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com [204.210.192.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B29237B406 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:40:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@ohio.com) Received: by smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com; id NAA10547; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:38:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown(166.108.139.2) by smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com via smap (V4.2) id xma010493; Thu, 12 Jul 01 13:38:07 -0400 Received: from [206.128.102.10] ([206.128.102.10]) by bea-mx.thebeaconjournal.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGDG6D00.VBG; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:49:25 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jarnold@krcoms1.knightridder.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010712012919.53A1837B403@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20010712012919.53A1837B403@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:39:06 -0400 To: Jorge Ramirez , FreeBSD Questions From: Jim Arnold Subject: Re: UPS for freebsd server Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am running a best power Patriot Pro II 400 and it works like a charm with their CheckUPS software, which is available on their website at http://www.bestpower.com/Checkups/chkunix.htm I am running the "basic" version which just shuts down the computer after 2 minutes of power loss. Let me know if you need the cable model number I am using since that was tricky getting the right one when I initially installed this on the same box that previously ran Linux. cheers, jim At 9:29 PM -0400 7/11/01, Jorge Ramirez wrote: >I need to get a ups for my server, which brands are most compatible >with freebsd (i want to set it up to shutdown when the battery is >about to die)? -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message