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Re: UPS reccomendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Schout)
Mon Nov 11 14:43:02 1996
From: Mike Schout <mike@Twoface.tamu.edu>
To: rbulling@obscure.org (Richard Bullington)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:37:04 -0600 (CST)
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.94.961111015827.7250G-100000@marduk.obscure.org> from Richard Bullington at "Nov 11, 96 02:09:27 am"
Reply-To: m-schout@tamu.edu
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
> On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Mike Schout wrote:
>
> I think he is referring to either powerd or backupsd. I looked at
> backupsd, and it does have a hard-coded sequence in there that is taken
> from shutdown.c. Not recommended. Yuck.
>
> The Smart UPSes are smart because they have an onboard microcontroller
> that can do things like 'when I get the right command over the serial
> line, wait 60 seconds and turn the power off'. (by the way, the
> BackUPS-Pro appears to be a cut-down Smart UPS, that supports smart
> signaling. I have patched apcd to handle the BackUPS Pro. If there is
> interest, I could make these patches available.)
I guess I misinterpreted the original message :). apcd DOES initiate an
orderly shutdown and then the ups turns off. Just as you had said...
Regards,
Mike
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