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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:36:11 -0500
From:      Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
To:        Graywane <graywane@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: does upsd support BACK-UPS from APC
Message-ID:  <20010417113609.A39486@northernbrewer.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010417122541.A872@home.com>; from graywane@home.com on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:25:41PM -0400
References:  <857F15D7E3D8D3118D290008C7CF058602C9767A@mail-naeast1.brooks.com> <001501c0c757$ab395f80$0101a8c0@chillipepper> <20010417122541.A872@home.com>

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Graywane (graywane@home.com) wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:01:30AM -0700, Hervey Wilson wrote:
> upsd does support the BACK-UPS series although I've had odd things happen
> with it from time to time. On one machine it was setup to wait 90 seconds,
> warn the users, wait 90 more seconds and then shutdown the machine. However,
> a 1 second brownout caused the UPSs to go to battery and upsd shutdown the
> machine instantly (which was more than a little annoying).

It is not clear from the ports description, but I've been told that upsd
is hard-coded to work with European 220v rather than US 120v power.

/usr/ports/sysutils/bkupsd works for me.

-- 
Christopher Farley
www.northernbrewer.com

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