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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:48:43 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to choose an UPS?
Message-ID:  <17772.15931.176308.587527@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Derek Ragona writes:

>  If you are going to interface it with the FreeBSD for automatic
>  shutdown, etc.  Look at the port for nut in /usr/ports/sysutils.
>  This supports only serial port models in the stable version but
>  supports USB in the experimental version.

	For APC UPSes, sysutils/apcupsd is probably preferable.  It's
also under active development, the developers are well-versed in
FreeBSD-specific issues, and respond quickly to questions on the
mailing list.
	The FreeBSD port is a little behind the current release, but
still works fine for most cases.


					Robert Huff



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