From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 25 13:34:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lunatic.oneinsane.net (lunatic.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B863A37B424 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:34:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by lunatic.oneinsane.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A866215551; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:34:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:34:21 -0700 From: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: Freebsd vs. UPS Message-ID: <20000925133421.A88849@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Reply-To: Ron Rosson Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <168192586705.20000925205447@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:54:47PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD lunatic.oneinsane.net 4.1-STABLE X-Moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (6% of Full) X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: 3F11 DB43 F080 C037 96F0 F8D3 5BD2 652B 171C 86DB X-Uptime: 1:33PM up 11 days, 2:15, 1 user, load averages: 1.06, 1.06, 1.03 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gabriel Ambuehl (gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) 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 > You forgot one.. /usr/ports/sysutils/nut it is actively maintained. > > > 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... > > 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? > > > > > Best regards, > Gabriel > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't get mad. Get covered in blood as you disembowel your enemies with a chainsaw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message