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From: fzshenau@bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu (Gregory Shenaut)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: UPS recommendations for BSD systems
Date: 14 Dec 1995 01:24:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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David Bauman (david@terra.igcom.net) wrote:
: Roderick Wong (rwong@sfu.ca) wrote:
: : I am looking for a reliable UPS that can provide battery backups
: : on my Pentium system and at the same time provide software support
: : on BSD/OS that allows an ordered power shutdown.  Can anybody
: : provide any suggestions?

: I am VERY interested in this as well. As far as I know, BSDI BSD/OS has 
: NO support for UPS. ;(

You might write to info@genua.de--they have an interface program
for the APC UPSs written in perl (I've not used it, so I can't
comment).

--
Greg Shenaut -- gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu