From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 9 0:22: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nottingham.ac.uk (pat.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk [128.243.40.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E318C37C2A1 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:22:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from psyrawt@nottingham.ac.uk) Received: from gotham.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk ([128.243.40.48] helo=unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk) by nottingham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #2) id 130J6C-00064P-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2000 08:21:00 +0100 Received: from granby ([128.243.40.43] helo=granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk) by unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.11 #2) id 130J78-0005e6-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2000 08:21:58 +0100 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:21:55 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Tulloch X-Sender: psyrawt@granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APC Back-UPS Pro In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, I hadn't realised nothing had been done with it for ages, I decided to have a go with nut anyhow as I need to make two or three machines run off this ups and shutdown correctly. Seems to be working so far i.e. all machines getting warnings about line power failing. Do you have any suggestions as to other packages that would allow me to run multiple machines off one ups and have them all know about line fails and shutdown on low battery? Thanks Andrew On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Andrew Tulloch wrote: > > > I'm having a bit of trouble with getting an APC Back-UPS Pro running on > > freebsd. It seems to be working with upsd from the ports collection. But > > every while I get a whole load of lines looking like this: > > upsd[355]: apc_tune: negative repsonse: N > > upsd[355]: apc_tune: negative repsonse: ^M > > upsd[355]: apc_tune: negative repsonse: ^M > > upsd[355]: apc_tune: negative repsonse: N > > upsd[355]: apc_tune: negative repsonse: NO > > upsd[355]: apc_tune: negative repsonse: NO > > That looks like either the UPS or upsd getting confused as to where to > expect responses. Check your config and make sure you aren't adding extra > spaces. > > I woudn't discount that the APC is doing wierd serial things -- it always > seemed flakey to me when I was working on upsd. > > upsd hasn't been touched in years so it's possible it still has bugs :) > > Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message