Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 00:53:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: APC UPS Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980227005033.19541A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980226213831.19247B-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>
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There was recently an addition to the FreeBSD ports collection that handles APC UPSes. It's called UPSd, and you can find the port front-end to it at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/sysutils.html. Joe Clarke On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Bryce Newall wrote: > Greetings again, > > This may qualify as one of those Frequently Asked Questions, but since > I haven't been able to find anything on it either in the FAQ or the > Handbook on the FreeBSD web site, I figured I'd ask here. > > I have an APC BackUPS 600 that my FreeBSD box is attached to. Back in the > dark days when I ran Linux, I had a program called genpowerd, which, along > with a custom-made cable, would initiate an automatic shutdown of my > system in the event of a power failure. This has saved me on more than > one occasion. Unfortunately, as I suspected, said program does not > compile under FreeBSD. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a similar daemon > for FreeBSD that will work with this UPS. The cable isn't a problem -- I > can easily obtain either the "smart" or "simple" signaling cable for this > particular UPS model, or I can custom-make a different cable. > > Thanks in advance! > > ********************************************************************** > * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.org * > * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.org/~data * > * "Stop smirking, Number 1." -- J.L. Picard * > * "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop!" -- EMH Program, ST:FC * > ********************************************************************** > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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