From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 31 22: 7:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pencil.math.missouri.edu (pencil.math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D35337B403 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 22:07:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rich@localhost) by pencil.math.missouri.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f8157q105581; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:07:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rich) From: Rich Winkel Message-Id: <200109010507.f8157q105581@pencil.math.missouri.edu> Subject: Re: Clearing DTR with "halt -p" ? In-Reply-To: <200109010501.f8151ts05334@pencil.math.missouri.edu> "from Rich Winkel at Sep 1, 2001 00:01:55 am" To: Rich Winkel Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:07:52 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Rino Mardo , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 I should mention I'm talking about an old cpu which "halt -p" doesn't turn off at the bios level. According to Rich Winkel: > According to Rino Mardo: > > just curious. what's the point of having a ups if you're going to switch it > > off when not in use? the batteries will not be fully charged then. > > I'm talking about a power outage situation. In other words, the > UPS would shut off the power to the computer after bsd halts, saving > the batteries from deep discharge. > > When the power comes back up the UPS will return cpu power and > recharge the batteries. > > Rich > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message