From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 25 13:55:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from steffi.geodesic.com (steffi.geodesic.com [38.193.150.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A95837B43E for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:55:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from geodesic.com (pcoyne.geodesic.com [38.193.150.90]) by steffi.geodesic.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA15562 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:55:17 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <39CFBBB4.6E48F238@geodesic.com> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:55:16 -0500 From: Paul Coyne X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. UPS References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000925153225.00bb11f0@127.0.0.1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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