From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 9 13:07:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EED116A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:07:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from marvin.nildram.co.uk (marvin.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6D943D2C for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:07:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bobsonsmee@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from smithers.nildram.co.uk (unknown [195.112.4.54]) by marvin.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 026FC39478B for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09:39:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yahoo.co.uk (orbital.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.215.230]) by smithers.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88633253031; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 08:40:04 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3FD438E0.5090404@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 08:40:00 +0000 From: Robert Downes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031201 X-Accept-Language: en, fr, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: skidmore@worldvenue.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1070846667.723.15.camel@worldvenue.org> In-Reply-To: <1070846667.723.15.camel@worldvenue.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: apcupsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 21:07:59 -0000 Barry Skidmore wrote: >Are there any users of apcupsd on the list? If so, please respond to me >privately. I have a question about recommended UPS's that work well >with FreeBSD. > > I have used apcupsd before. I have an ancient old APC Back-UPS Pro 420 with serial cable, and everything was working just dandy. Seems that almost any recent APC Back-UPS Pro or Smart-UPS is supposed to work with apcupsd. However, mine does not work with apcupsd anymore. I think this was my fault, as I tried to send data from my FreeBSD machine to the UPS, and later realised that my model does not allow this. So I think I may have fried the UPS data-line. Possibly it was something else, though, so let's hope some more intelligent UPS+FreeBSD users post to this thread. -- Bob