Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 09:41:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> Cc: Alex Weeks <Alex_Weeks@capitalland.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Best Checkups (UPS) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971020093811.2370E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971017102253.378A-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
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On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > > Anyone using Best's Fortress UPS and Checkups software with FreeBSD? > > > > Make sure you're trying to build for a BSD environment. We may need to > > port this; is the code publicly available? > > The fortress comes with three versions of the software. Basic for SVR5, > Advanced for SVR4, and Basic for BSD. The Basic software does little more > than shut down the computer, and the advanced version has options for > monitoring battery condition, etc. > > The basic version for BSD (checkups.bsd) once renamed to checkups.c, > compiles with one warning with the command "cc checkups.c -lcompat" on my > 2.2.2 system, though I haven't actually tried running it yet. The > comments say that it works for SunOS/Solaris. Is there any copyright in the file? > And unfortunately, the program is considered proprietary, so I don't think > we could roll a port. If the code is OK to distribute then we shouldn't have a problem. I don't know why UPS manufacturers are so touchy about their control protocol. Anyone with a line monitor and the software can hack the protocol in a matter of minutes. If they got together and defined a standard protocol, it'd take a lot of the mystery out of UPS control. These people have something to learn from Connectix regarding ``proprietary'' systems. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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