From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 25 11:58:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6898537B43C for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:58:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8PIwU202740; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:58:30 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: Freebsd vs. UPS Message-ID: <20000925115829.B9141@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <44191516796.20000925203657@buz.ch> <20000925114531.A9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <168192586705.20000925205447@buz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <168192586705.20000925205447@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:54:47PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Gabriel Ambuehl [000925 11:51] wrote: > Hello Alfred, > > Monday, September 25, 2000, 8:45:31 PM, you wrote: > > > Check ports, there should be some stuff to talk to APC power supplies. > > There are some ports: > bkpupsd > upsd > upsmon Yup, I'm just too lazy to check. :) > > you could probably jury rig it so that several servers talking over > > the network could be informed from the main server hooked to the > > UPS that power was going down, perhaps by using ssh keys you could > > run shutdown on the other machines. > > I had that idea but I don't like it because this would require to > have ssh keys for atleast the operator group (or do those just have > the right to do reboots? root keys would be even worse) on the servers, > not something I'd consider to be safe in any manner... I said jury rig, you could make your own user/group that can execute a binary to just reboot, not exactly awesome, but a but safer. > Guess I need to get that UPS first. Is there, on the software side, > any difference between the small desktop one and the heavy stuff? No idea, I let exodus handle my power. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message