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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!news.sojourn.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.texas.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!news From: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: UPS success anyone ? Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:40 GMT Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 23 Sender: jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu Message-ID: <5141ok$dgu@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <842288682.29270.0@loddon.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: fallout.campusview.indiana.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.7 To: stuart@loddon.demon.co.uk (Stuart Broderick) In article <842288682.29270.0@loddon.demon.co.uk>, stuart@loddon.demon.co.uk (Stuart Broderick) writes: > I need to set to a FreeBSD system in an environment which does not > have a perfect power supply - brownouts/blackouts etc. I know Linux > can be configured to use UPS's can FreeBSD ? Most certainly. I have an APC SmartUPS v/s 420 which gets me through about one power "event" a week (two yesterday in fact). There is at least one daemon (upsd) that can communicate with APC units and perform an orderly system shutdown if necessary. The ftp address is ftp://ftp.ww.net/pub/wildwind/upsd/. As near as I can tell, the SmartUPS v/s models are almost identical to the BackUPS Pro models. They are considerably less "Smart" than the regular SmartUPS, although the marketing tries to obscure that fact. Also, for general information, there is a UPS FAQ on the net somewhere, but in my "bookmark cleaning" I lost the address. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================