Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 21:35:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@eng.umd.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fiskars UPS support... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951005213208.13086B-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199510052240.PAA02816@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I believe there is a port of a UPS daemon in ports that answers these > > > questions and more... though it's not for a Fiskars UPS. > > > > I don't think so (there used to be a graphical debugger called ups, > > are you confusing this, Terry?), but perhaps you could convince > > Hellmuth Michaelis of making his UPS stuff an official port... > > There was a monitoring daemon for American Power Corporation UPS's > posted to comp.sources.unix. > > Someone ported it to BSD and posted about its availability to the > hackers list. I forget who and my news archive is currently offline. I wanted to do a program myself like this, but I was hung up on one question. Many UPSs are going to be used to monitor more than one machine, so such a program (it seems to me) is going to have to have a local monitoring part, and a remote 'I take orders' part. This thing is going to be on the network, then, and have the ability to shut machines down, directly or indirectly. How then is security controlled? It's not too tough a problem on the machine that listens to the UPS port, but on the other machines, I don't see it clearly. The async port is two way, so only one machine at a time can talk to it. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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