From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 26 20:21:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A0537B424 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04473; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:51:32 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:51:32 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Tom Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. UPS Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Rahul Dhesi , Lyndon Nerenberg Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-Sep-00 Tom wrote: > On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > The APC BackUPS protocol raises and lowers control pins on the RS-232 > cable. It can barely be called a protocol. Of course the BackUPS units > are designed for desktop use. The SmartUPS protocol does a lot more. Yes.. If anyone cares, there IS software to talk to them :) nut is quite nice (has a neat cgi to graph UPS load etc..) and talks to quite a number of upsen. upsd is ugly but it works quite well.. APC only tho I think. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message