From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 02:32:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03676 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:32:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03471 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:30:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA06327; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 22:19:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 22:19:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: UPS monitor software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote: > I know I've seen this mentioned on the list, but silly me, I didn't take > note of it earlier. Is there any APC UPS (or generic UPS) monitoring > software available for FreeBSD? I just got a APC BackUPS Pro 280, and > I'd like to hook it in to FreeBSD. I saw apcupsd on the net, but I > couldn't get it to compile. It wanted linux, and the errors turned me > off to trying to port the code. Any input would be much appreciated. The BackUPS only responds to `dumb' monitoring. YOu'll have to look around for a dumb monitoring upsd (until I learn line discipline and get wildwind-upsd to react to dumb mode). The linux apcupsd should concievably work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major