From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 9 8:32:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A847737C402 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:32:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e59FWSi55861; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:32:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:32:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Andrew Tulloch Cc: 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 On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Andrew Tulloch wrote: > > 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? The problem with this is doing it securely. You can have one monitor machine but having some automated way of telling the others to shutdown that can't be tricked is a tough problem. ssh with a null-passphrase RSA key is about as close as you can get, but that doesn't keep root on one machine from telling the others to shutdown, but that may not be a problem in your environment :) 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