From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 3 06:56:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20586 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 06:56:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (exim@iglou2.iglou.com [192.107.41.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA20537 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 06:55:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from gateway.cre8tivegroup.com [204.255.227.40] by iglou.com with esmtp (8.7.3/8.6.12) id 0y9seq-0006VY-00; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:27:01 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199803030407.XAA27907@serge.jbj.org> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 09:27:28 -0500 (EST) Organization: The Creative Group From: Patrick Gardella To: Serge Pashenkov Subject: RE: Uninterruptible power supply support Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What kind of UPS do you have? Look at /usr/ports/sysutils upsd and bkpupsd. Patrick On 03-Mar-98 Serge Pashenkov wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a piece of software to have my FreeBSD box shut down > if the power goes away. There is UPS box wich will keep the system up > for several minutes, and then it supposed to send a signal on RS232 > port, and the software should then do clean shut down. > > So far so good, but the problem is that I can not sense anything > intelligeble on the port, it looks more like line noise. The > manufacturer has of course the software for Windoze and no desire to > share the protocol. > > So, I wonder if it's a well-known thing and maybe somebody already did > in-depth investigation. > > Any and all suggestions and references are appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > serge > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message