From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 16 03:41:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA08945 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 03:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA08934 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 03:41:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id DAA20847 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 03:26:29 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA23469; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 11:50:29 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA16114; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 11:50:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA22772; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:26:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607160826.KAA22772@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: APC ups monitor? To: port-i386@netbsd.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:26:54 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Bob Bishop at "Jul 16, 96 07:47:13 am" 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 Bob Bishop wrote: > > The folks at APC *sell* monitor software for there ups. > IIRC the "etc" includes SCO. Maybe that will run under emulation??? Last time i've seen it running on the SCO of a customer's machine, i felt so upset about the terrible design of their software, that i've rather spent my time to re-engineer the APC protocol. The result was input for Alexis' upsd software. :) Better pick the latter, you've got it with source, and as a native BSD development effort. -- 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. ;-)