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From: "Eric Jeschke" <jeschke@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: APC SmartUPS series serial-port protocol anyone?
Message-ID: <1994Nov2.180631.22413@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
References: <TAMSKY.94Oct29191638@avarice.ugcs.caltech.edu> <TAMSKY.94Oct31040230@avarice.ugcs.caltech.edu> <393f9h$k0u@lace.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 18:06:23 -0500
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vilhuber@yomama.com (Jan Vilhuber) writes:
:I believe this is correct, although I can not make powerd work. I have the
:UPS on serial port 2, and I tried 'powerd /dev/cua1' and 'powerd /dev/ttyS1'
:and neither worked, so I'll have to port the code that APC sent me anyway.
:(of course it is in C++, which I have not the slightest knowledge about, so
:any help would be appreciated.)

You can probably use the daemon in the BACK-UPS HOWTO instead of powerd.
I am, and it works great.

-- 
Eric Jeschke                      |          Indiana University
jeschke@cs.indiana.edu            |     Computer Science Department