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 > > > > > > > >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 -- // Paul A. Coyne Geodesic Systems, Inc. // mailto:pac@geodesic.com http://www.geodesic.com // voice: 312.832.2059 fax: 312.832.1230 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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