From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Oct 24 11:50:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA13774 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA13769 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA06471; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:50:25 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:50:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199610241850.MAA06471@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Jeremy Sigmon Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is SmartUPS the way to go? In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > My boss is (finally) ready to buy a UPS for our web server. I sifted > through the mailing list (this messages that actually showed up) and > saw quite a few references for SmartUPS, but no one saying: > Yes we have a driver and it works perfectly. Yes, we have a piece of software (upsd) and it works. Having *just* gone through this I recommend that you get the UPS SmartUPS (not the SmartUPS V/S). > Does it work and if so do I need anyones patches to get it to work? > thanks for your time. After someone sent me a configuration file for the V/S (which I got unfortunately), I'm running UPS'd right now. Every once in a while I go pull the plug on it to freak out co-workers and prove that the software really works. The upsd stuff is sitting in the incoming directory on freefall. Nate