From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 19:01:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA15123 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 19:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line5.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA15118 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 19:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00324; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 19:01:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 19:01:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Bill cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: Daemon for APC UPS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Bill wrote: > Does anyone know of or have a daemon to communicate with an APC > Back-Up Pro or Smart UPS Pro unit in order to gracefully shutdown the > system when electrical power is interrupted? Check out this URL: ftp://ftp.ww.net/pub/wildwind/upsd/ It's a project to support the SmartUPS series (reversed enginerred of course) for proper shutdowns, messages, the whole gamate. > APC does offer software (at a cost), but it is not compiled for > FreeBSD (only for SCO and AIX). The SCO version (obviously) doesn't work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major