[6523] in bugtraq
Re: APC UPS PowerChute PLUS exploit...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Stone)
Wed Apr 15 11:54:56 1998
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:10:42 +0900
Reply-To: Scott Stone <sstone@UME.PHT.CO.JP>
From: Scott Stone <sstone@UME.PHT.CO.JP>
X-To: Pascal Gienger <p@ZNET.DE>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19980414232957.43376@magnus.factum-data.de>
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Pascal Gienger wrote:
> Due to many e-mails received of people wanting the source of the
> freely available upsd, I sent this mail to the list.
>
> upsd-1.0 was programmed by a guy at Wildwind Communications. It
> used the dumb mode of APC SmartUPSes and is depreciated.
>
> Then, also at Wildwind Communications, upsd-2.0 appeared. It uses
> active ("intelligent") mode of the SmartUPS and reports actual
> configurations, voltages, etc to the syslog.
>
> Problem: Wildwind Communications seem to no longer exist on the net.
> Their FTP site is no longer registered at InterNIC (ftp.ww.net).
>
> So I put the source at our anonymous FTP server for download.
> Please write your own settings for your UPS (configurable parameters)
> in apc_static.c, because they are changing from one country to
> another. Feedback and working configurations would be appreciated.
> I use this upsd with FreeBSD 2.2.5 and a SmartUPS 700.
There's also a program available called 'apcupsd' which has some really
nice features if you have an APC UPS. I'm using it w/ a BkPro500 and it
works great. The machine with the UPS will even let other machines on the
network know when there are power problems.
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@pht.com, sstone@turbolinux.com>
<sstone@pht.co.jp>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc.
http://www.pht.com http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp http://www.turbolinux.com
