From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 25 12:42:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.isni.net (earth.isni.net [208.160.180.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBAE37B42C for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:41:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webdev.isni.net (webdev.isni.net [208.160.180.27]) by earth.isni.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8PJfnT26112; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:41:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000925153225.00bb11f0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: freebsd@mail.isni.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:35:02 -0500 To: Mike Murphree From: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. UPS Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20000925193404.XWNU7586.smtp1a@[10.1.2.13]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You might be interested in checking out apcupsd It's an open source APC monitoring utility, with recent support for OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. It supports low battery "suspend" mode, as well as network shutdowns and various other nifty little features. I hope to have BSD/OS support implemented soon.. however, it's not in there yet. Jeff Palmer At 12:34 PM 9/25/2000 -0700, you wrote: > > Personally I use very cheap Sendon 1000 UPSes. They have serial > > port, but I could not make cable with their description :-( > > But their UPSes have very loud BEEPEEEP :-)) > > Also I had some APC UPSes, but they died after 2.5 years > >This topic is somewhat timely since I lost power to my >machine this weekend. A loud BEEP wouldn't have done >any good as I was away from it too long at the time. >A low power suspend mode triggered by the UPS to extend >its run time could have been useful. The PC was on a >6 year old APC which has been reliable though I changed >out the batteries as preventative maintenance a couple >of years ago. > >Mike > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message