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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What program monitors the serial port for UPS status? Date: 19 Feb 1996 00:42:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4g8h16$93e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4fqej8$mv@venus.os.com> <3121E27E.ABD322C@freebsd.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Craig Shrimpton wrote: > > Linux has a program called powerd that monitors the serial port for the UPS. > > What is FreeBSD's equivalent? > > tar tvzf /cdrom/dists/xperimnt/xperimnt.tgz | grep ups Well, this was my code, and it was just a re-engineering of an APC SmartUPS i could get hold of. Things have been improving (not by me), there's now a mailing list and basically working code. The list is upsd-list@ww.net, i think it's majordomo-maintained, so ask ``majordomo@ww.net'' for ``help''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)