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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Powerfail / UPS implementation
Date: 6 Apr 93 01:03:11
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Apr6010311@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <2107@hcshh.hcs.de> <C51q9w.Fqo@agora.rain.com>
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In-reply-to: rgrimes@agora.rain.com's message of Tue, 6 Apr 1993 05:08:19 GMT
In article <C51q9w.Fqo@agora.rain.com> rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes) writes:
>Humm, maybe invoke shutdown with the number of minutes - 1 of time that
>the UPS can hold the sysem up. Then cancel the shutdown if AC comes back...
"the number of minutes - 1" is a bit dubious; the survival time
of a system on a UPS is rather dependent on what's being supported
by the UPS...
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass