From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 16 00:11:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA15468 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isbalham (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA15463 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:11:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id IAA19917; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:08:24 +0100 Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 07:44:38 +0100 X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 07:47:13 +0100 To: John Utz From: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Subject: Re: APC ups monitor? Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 10:07 am 15/7/96, John Utz wrote: >[...] > The folks at APC *sell* monitor software for there ups. Has >anybody had any experience hacking up a perlscript ( or whatever ) that >visits the serial port and listens to what the ups has to say? The APC-ups >software only comes for NT, AS/400, vines, netware, etc, so buying the >software is out of the question. IIRC the "etc" includes SCO. Maybe that will run under emulation??? -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK