From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 10:24:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (sparge.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1BE737B730 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@nbrewer.com) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0FE07383055; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:24:43 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:24:43 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Andrew Hesford Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy , System Administrator , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UPS Message-ID: <20010308122440.A62047@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Andrew Hesford , Jeremiah Gowdy , System Administrator , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <003a01c0a7db$15628b30$3702010a@dell3> <002a01c0a7e6$72d4cfc0$035778d8@sherline.net> <20010308114452.A2029@cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010308114452.A2029@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@cec.wustl.edu on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:44:52AM -0600 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Hesford (ajh3@cec.wustl.edu) wrote: > I think the question he meant to ask is whether or not FreeBSD will > detect powerfail event signals from a UPS via a serial port, and > automatically begin a shutdown. I know linux can handle this, by > specifying options in /etc/inittab, but FreeBSD doesn't have that. :) > > Actually, I'd like to know if it's possible, too, even though I never > plan on owning a UPS. How about these: /usr/ports/sysutils/upds upsd is a daemon with flexible configuration which lets you to shutdown your system properly when source power line fails and measure its frequency, voltage etc /usr/ports/sysutils/bkpupsd This is a simple uninterruptible power source (UPS) daemon which supports APC Back-UPS Pro(TM) series. The UPSd works as UPS driver, sensing line-failures, shutting down the system cleanly, and finally shutting down the UPS itself. This UPSd provides only the "dumb mode", and the advanced features are not supported. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message