Date: 08 Aug 2001 09:43:50 -0700 From: swear@aa.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc.shutdown and SmartUPS Message-ID: <a6pua6qz7d.ua6@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20010808013811.A61371@northernbrewer.com> References: <chris@northernbrewer.com> <200108080115.f781FnU45606@x4.tucheng.generalresources.com> <20010808013811.A61371@northernbrewer.com>
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Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> writes: > Christopher Hall (hsw@acm.org) wrote: > > > After the UPS has been on battery power for a few minutes the program issues > > a "shutdown -r now". > > For a while I considered forcing a reboot and then dealing with the > shutdown during the boot-up. It seems kind of weird to be rebooting the > computer while the UPS is screaming about its battery being critically > low. I've been suprised that I've not seen anyone consider this before (when I investigated about ten USP programs while using Linux). Most seemed more concerened about having their system get running again unattended. I was concerned about the system trying to boot up and shut down while the mains power was going on and off while the battery was near dead. A small risk, but as I'm not running a server, one I needn't take. I chose to configure the boot manager to require user input so that the computer can be powered up and down without ever writing to the disks. I still haven't figured how to shutdown properly in FreeBSD as it seems more of the shutdown process happens in "init" (as opposed to scripts) than in Linux where I could change a script to shut down the UPS after the disks are unmounted. I was planning to write a script to shutdown the Linux way. I'll have to look into the software you're discussing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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