From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 23 08:58:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA26240 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 May 1997 08:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26232 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 08:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (ppp010-sm2.sirius.com [205.134.231.10]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA10703 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 07:31:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA05973; Fri, 23 May 1997 07:31:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199705231431.HAA05973@superior.mooseriver.com> Subject: Re: UPS for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199705231227.FAA24200@geocities.com> from Patrick Gardella at "May 23, 97 08:37:49 am" To: pgardella@geocities.com (Patrick Gardella) Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 07:31:47 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Patrick Gardella said: >I want to add a UPS to my system. Is there any software which allows for >a graceful shutdown while using a UPS? And is there any prefered UPS >that you would recommend? > >Thanks again, > >Patrick Gardella > I have had good luck with the APC. I have a 400 which is the lowest model which supports port monitoring. APC sells software to manage the UPS but not a FreeBSD version. I have used their SCO version. There is a version written for FreeBSD called upsd. I can't find a copy just now. You will also need a special serial cable. This is gotten from APC. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.1 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses