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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 
-----snip-----snip-----snip-----snip-----

Enjoy,

Tom Webster
-- 
+--------------------------------+------------------------------+
| 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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