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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.voicenet.com!news From: 900RR (900RR) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: UPS recommendations for BSD systems Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 07:55:31 GMT Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4aqvdj$bnt@news.voicenet.com> References: <4an40p$bvs@morgoth.sfu.ca> <4anaum$ajk@moon.igcom.net> <4anubo$qma@mark.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: philly30.voicenet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 fzshenau@bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu (Gregory Shenaut) wrote: >David Bauman (david@terra.igcom.net) wrote: >: Roderick Wong (rwong@sfu.ca) wrote: >: : I am looking for a reliable UPS that can provide battery backups >: : on my Pentium system and at the same time provide software support >: : on BSD/OS that allows an ordered power shutdown. Can anybody >: : provide any suggestions? >: I am VERY interested in this as well. As far as I know, BSDI BSD/OS has >: NO support for UPS. ;( >You might write to info@genua.de--they have an interface program >for the APC UPSs written in perl (I've not used it, so I can't >comment). well, NT has had UPS support for years. u may consider setting up a lowly NT Workstation to monitor the UPS's, and fire off some sort of notification to the mighty BSDI when thing's go south.