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Date:      Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:55:16 -0500
From:      Paul Coyne <pac@geodesic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Freebsd vs. UPS
Message-ID:  <39CFBBB4.6E48F238@geodesic.com>
References:  <4.3.2.7.0.20000925153225.00bb11f0@127.0.0.1>

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Just a note that Tripplite's x11 client and ups daemon works in linux
emulation mode.  Shutdown works as well.

FreeBSD wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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