From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 18: 1:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E12437B41A for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:01:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 74444 invoked by uid 100); 28 Feb 2002 02:01:32 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15485.36731.902507.650408@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:01:31 -0600 To: Unix Admin Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPS software for Smart-UPS APC In-Reply-To: <31324127@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) 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 Unix Admin types: > Am installing a USB Smart-UPS unit made by APC and its bundled software is > only for SCO Unix and other non-FBSD OS. Thus, I suppose the SCO is > incompatible Not necessarily. If SCO has gone to SysVR4, then you might be able to use the SysVR4 kernel ABI. Like the Linux kernel ABI, you'll need a large chunk of an SCO system installed in order to run emulated software. > and was wondering which software would be the best choice from > the ports for monitoring the power and doing the management & shutdown. I > see the following possibles and if anyone has had with experience with this > UPS and any of these programs, I would like your recommendations about > which best to use ...much obliged!: I'll agree with Bruce that nut works very nicely, though I haven't tried anything with a USB interface. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message