From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 23 14:29:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA22058 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 14:29:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21722 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 14:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA11021; Thu, 23 May 1996 23:27:32 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA11585; Thu, 23 May 1996 23:27:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA18623; Thu, 23 May 1996 21:39:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605231939.VAA18623@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: APC Powerchute To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 21:39:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: sns@viaduk.net, green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Charles Green) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605221851.OAA08375@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from Charles Green at "May 22, 96 02:51:10 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Charles Green wrote: > I've got a copy of upsd(don't remember the rev.), But I was playing > around with some of the options available with powerchute and thought > it would be neat to be able to use them. I had to install PowerChute on the SCO box of a customer some time ago. The scripts accompanying the software looked so terrible that i would never install it on a system of my own. Alexis Yushin's upsd at least has a thoughtful and extensible design. If there are features missing for you, why not try to extend it? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)