From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 11:25:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from almazs.pacex.net (almazs.pacex.net [204.1.219.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C37414DE2 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:25:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danielb@almazs.pacex.net) Received: from localhost (danielb@localhost) by almazs.pacex.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA41564; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:25:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:25:05 -0800 (PST) From: daniel B To: Stan Brown Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: APC SmarUPS 1250 & FreeBSSD In-Reply-To: <199912240041.QAA01548@netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG use upsd in the ports collection; ofcourse you are going to need a serial cable to connect your machine serial port to the UPS serial interface and it will do auto-shutdown. You can make the cable yourself from a DB9 serial cable and I posted a question to this list about 8 - 9 months ago and got info. about the pinouts on the cable, search this mailing list you'll probably find it. mine works fine (APC smart UPS 1000RM). Dan On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Stan Brown wrote: > i have aquired a APC SmartUPS 1250. This unit seems to work well for > what I need, but I would like to have it do a graceful shutdown on the > machiens it supports when the battery is low. > > I found uppsd, and upsmon in the ports tree, but both of them appear to > expect theUPS to commuincate using RS-232. Looks like my UPS has some > more basic signals on it's "serial" port. > > Anyone have nay experience wiht these erliare units? Or pointers to > more complete docs on eithr of these programs? Or other programs? > > Any help appreciated. > > > -- > Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 > Factory Automation Systems > Atlanta Ga. > -- > Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! > Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer > (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. > > > 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