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REPOST: unipower-1.0.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri May 19 23:56:01 1995
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 07:56:06 -0500
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@rose.uthscsa.edu>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: Tom Webster <webster@kaiwan.com>
Subject: REPOST: unipower-1.0.0
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: UPS, shutdown, powerd, battery
Organization: ?
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
[ Moderator's note: This is yet another repost; the original was posted
quite a while ago. If you notice other missing articles, I'd like to
know. --liw ]
Announcing unipower-1.0.0
After nearly a year of working on it in my spare time, I'm proud to
announce the first general release of my unipower package.
The unipower package is basically a hack of Miquel van Smoorenburg's
powerd daemon, which is distributed in the SysVInit package. The
express aim of the unipower package is to add additional functionally
and a simpler means of configuring UPS monitoring, in a full featured
suite that can be configured to work with most UPSs featuring an RS232
monitoring port.
Depending on the UPS, cable, and the manner in which the unipower
package is configured, the unipower package provides the following
features:
* Line power sensing, to detect when the power has failed and
initiate a delayed shutdown, or other appropriate actions.
This facility also allows the system to cancel the shutdown if
power is restored before the system is shutdown.
* Low battery detection, to detect when the UPS's battery is
running low and initiate an immediate shutdown.
* Physical cable detection, to detect connection errors.
* The ability to kill the UPS's inverter. This shuts the
inverter on the UPS off, to prevent the system from draining
the UPS's battery after it has shutdown. This allows the
system to restart itself, as if the power had been turned on
when line power is restored.
Additionally, this helps the UPS to retain enough power to
deal with power yo-yos, where the power comes up and goes down
several times before being fully restored.
* The unitest program, included in the unipower package, will
monitor the status of a serial line and report changes in the
status of the line. The information provided by unitest can
then be used to configure the unipower package for your UPS
and cable combination.
Here is the LSM:
-----snip-----snip-----snip-----snip-----
Begin3
Title: unipower
Version: 1.0.0
Entered-date: 09APR95
Description: Highly configurable UPS monitoring software with support
for: automated shutdown, low battery detection, inverter
shutdown, and more.
Keywords: UPS, shutdown, powerd, battery
Author: webster@kaiwan.com (Tom Webster)
Maintained-by:
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Daemons
38kb unipower-1.0.0.tgz
1kb unipower-1.0.0.lsm
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
Platforms: Linux system with UPS supporting RS232 monitoring,
SysVInit package installed.
Copying-policy: GPL
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Enjoy,
Tom Webster
--
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| Tom Webster | "Funny, I've never seen it |
| webster@kaiwan.com | do THAT before...." |
| | - Any user support person |
+--------------------------------+------------------------------+
| finger -l webster@kaiwan.com to get my PGP Public Key. |
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