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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!butch!lscruz!lscruz!not-for-mail From: alan@lscruz.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com (Alan Strassberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and APC SmartUPS Date: 2 Jan 1996 18:57:21 -0800 Organization: Lockheed Martin, Santa Cruz, California Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4ccrah$pvh@lscruz.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com> References: <4bpmav$3v1@news.fsu.edu> <4btqec$555@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4c8701$j87@news1.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lscruz.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com In article <4c8701$j87@news1.halcyon.com>, Tim Smith <tzs@coho.halcyon.com> wrote: >I called APC when I was thinking of getting a UPS, and told them I want >to use it under operating systems other than the ones they support, and >asked if they would tell me the protocol, and they said no. Screw 'em. Someone's done a good job of reverse engineering on APC's. Though it's written for Linux there's some good info. Hope to see it on *BSD soon. The software is on sunsite.unc.edu but I used a mirror: ftp.yggdrasil.com/mirrors/system/UPS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- /pub/Linux/system/UPS (INDEX) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ apcd-0.1.tar.gz watches apc ups and shuts down system w/ power fails genpower-1.0.1.tgz highly configurable UPS monitoring software =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- --- alan@lmsc.lockheed.com