From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 7:15:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5570737B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:15:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F18543EB2 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:15:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1043507709.fae292@mired.org) Received: (qmail 94669 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2003 15:15:09 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 20 Jan 2003 15:15:09 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15916.4730.203618.74993@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:15:06 -0600 To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: Per olof Ljungmark , Mark , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shutdown for APC Back-UPS 350 CS In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20030119192238.011becd0@mail.sage-one.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20030119185811.011becd0@mail.sage-one.net> <3.0.5.32.20030119192238.011becd0@mail.sage-one.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <3.0.5.32.20030119192238.011becd0@mail.sage-one.net>, Jack L. Stone typed: > At 02:05 AM 1.20.2003 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > I have been asking WHY have a cable with a dumb UPS for a long time and yet > to get a good answer. I have tested with instruments the pins on those > cables and very little to nothing found in a way of a signal. If you go to > that apcupsd URL and did down you will find all (most) of the cables and it > also explains them. SmartUPSes -- yes -- okay and will work with the cable. > The computer may sense the dumb UPS -- BUT, will not communicate about > shutdown and other critical info. If I'm wrong, then let me know.... I > spent a lot of time falling for the "cable" bit. Even a "dumb" UPS communicates with the machine - with the right cable. The computer gets three signals: On battery power, off battery power, and almost out of battery. The computer can send one signal to the UPS, telling it to turn off and stay off. The idea is that you use the last signal from the UPS to initiate a shutdown, and the last thing you do as you shut down is tell the UPS to go off and stay off. I have as yet to figure out how to get FreeBSD to signal the UPS to shut down in a safe way. Anyone else worked on this one? Maybe in 5.0? http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message