From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 25 12:28:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rr.gfoster.com (ffaxvamf5-2-189.cox.rr.com [24.168.217.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AC3937B42C for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gfoster@localhost) by rr.gfoster.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8PJRL308281; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:27:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gfoster) From: Glen Foster MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:27:21 -0400 (EDT) To: Stephen Beitzel Cc: gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Freebsd vs. UPS In-Reply-To: <200009251911.e8PJBKF07628@sf-gw.envolved.com> References: <200009251911.e8PJBKF07628@sf-gw.envolved.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14799.42215.612240.468461@rr.gfoster.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My experience is different, I've been using upsd (now at 2.0, dunno the initial version) with a 117VAC SU700 for over two years now. I have not independantly verified that the values it is reporting are correct but it reliably shuts down the machine when it should. Here are some recent log entries: Sep 25 15:19:12 rr upsd[817]: last test: NO, light test: Sep 25 15:19:12 rr upsd[817]: frequency: 60.00, maxvac: 118.4, minvac: 116.5, voltage: 117.1 Sep 25 15:19:12 rr upsd[817]: load: 19.7, recharge: 100.0, temp: 21.6, vdc: 27.67, output voltage: 117.1 Glen Foster Stephen Beitzel writes: > Gabriel Ambuehl: >> > > >> There are some ports: > >> bkpupsd > >> upsd > >> upsmon > > Note that upsd does not (currently) support anything other than 230VAC > and 420VAC power supplies. I just bought a SmartUPS 700 (115VAC power > supply) and am currently working on making upsd understand the settings > for that unit. > > I don't know what your power standard is over there, but if it's 230 or > 420 you should be able just to hook the box up and go. > > Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message