From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 13 05:33:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA22775 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 05:33:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.98.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA22763 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 05:33:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@myhakas.matti.ee) Received: (from root@localhost) by myhakas.matti.ee (8.9.1/8.8.5) id PAA00403; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:32:29 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <19980813153229.38886@matti.ee> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:32:29 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste To: "Scott I. Remick" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UPS signal from NT? Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <199808122044.QAA04582@server.computeralt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199808122044.QAA04582@server.computeralt.com>; from Scott I. Remick on Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 04:44:14PM -0400 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Scott I. Remick" wrote: > We have a large UPS hooked up to our NT server. The UPS only has one > serial port and it is currently set up to signal a shutdown on the NT > server. Without buying a separate UPS for our FreeBSD server, is there > some way to get a signal from the NT server that would trigger a shutdown > on the FreeBSD box also? *** I think you can use samba to do this. Samba has a feature to receive "pop-up" messages and execute commands. Almost all UPS control programs I have seen ( I mean Windoze programs ) use named feature to send messages to users. Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message