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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2006 22:55:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tuc at T-B-O-H <ml@t-b-o-h.net>
To:        mikhailg@webanoide.org (Mikhail Goriachev)
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Anyone using sysutils/nut ?
Message-ID:  <200605250255.k4P2tFPK002628@vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
In-Reply-To: <447519F7.304@webanoide.org> from "Mikhail Goriachev" at May 25, 2006 12:44:07 PM

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> 
> Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote:
> > 	The issue isn't with the upsmon or SHUTDOWNCMD... Its with the
> > fact that /etc/killpower gets set, and somewhere you need to put 
> > "upsdrvctl shutdown". Its during the "shutdown -p now" that at some point
> > needs to be run, and if its run in /etc/rc.shutdown then the shutdown isn't
> > finished and shutting it off at that point the filesystems are dirty.
> 
> 
> Oh, I see the dilemma now. In my case my box powers off but the UPS
> stays on till it drastically dies (if power is still unavailable).
> You're trying to shutdown both the system and the UPS, aren't you? 
>
	Exactly, yes.
>
> So
> then they can automatically come back up again when power returns.
>
	That what I want to do, yea.

	I think I'm finding that the UPS I bought (MGE Ellipse Pulsar)
isn't really a UPS, but a toy.  Now to decide if I give the next step up
(Evolution) a try or is it just wasting more money.

		Thanks, Tuc



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