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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: UPS software for FreeBSD??
Date: 2 Aug 95 11:39:40 GMT
Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH
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In <3vgcsj$4a4@uuneo.neosoft.com> ctoriger@starbase.neosoft.com (Chris Origer) writes:
>Does anyone know of any UPS software for BSD? Nothing smart (e.g.
>SmartUPs and Powerchute), just a 'powerd' that looks for changes in the
>line state of the connected ups (serial line state of the connected ups).
>I've found a number of packages for linux but nothing for FreeBSD.
>I can't be the only one with a 'dumb' UPS -).
I just put my ups-package for FreeBSD 2.0.5 onto ftp.freebsd.org in directory
pub/FreeBSD/incoming. The filename is freebsd205ups.tar.gz.
It is nothing special, just one way to handle a ups, in my case a dumb built-
in ups of a Kyocera machine - it uses a driver to get the status of the ups
via i/o-space accessible registers, but i think it's trivial to add support
for some serial protocol - everything else is there, and it works for me.
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis GFKT HCS Computertechnik GmbH Hamburg, Europe
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