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Date:      Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:58:30 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: Freebsd vs. UPS
Message-ID:  <20000925115829.B9141@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <168192586705.20000925205447@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:54:47PM %2B0200
References:  <44191516796.20000925203657@buz.ch> <20000925114531.A9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <168192586705.20000925205447@buz.ch>

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* Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> [000925 11:51] wrote:
> Hello Alfred,
> 
> Monday, September 25, 2000, 8:45:31 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > Check ports, there should be some stuff to talk to APC power supplies.
> 
> There are some ports:
> bkpupsd
> upsd
> upsmon

Yup, I'm just too lazy to check. :)

> > you could probably jury rig it so that several servers talking over
> > the network could be informed from the main server hooked to the
> > UPS that power was going down, perhaps by using ssh keys you could
> > run shutdown on the other machines.
> 
> I had that idea but I don't like it because this would require to
> have ssh keys for atleast the operator group (or do those just have
> the right to do reboots? root keys would be even worse) on the servers,
> not something I'd consider to be safe in any manner...

I said jury rig, you could make your own user/group that can execute
a binary to just reboot, not exactly awesome, but a but safer.

> Guess I need to get that UPS first. Is there, on the software side,
> any difference between the small desktop one and the heavy stuff?

No idea, I let exodus handle my power. :)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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