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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!col.hp.com!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!coho!tzs From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and APC SmartUPS Date: 1 Jan 1996 08:45:53 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4c8701$j87@news1.halcyon.com> References: <4bpmav$3v1@news.fsu.edu> <4btqec$555@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >astuy@bio.fsu.edu (Alexander Stuy) writes: >> Anyone out there get FreeBSD to halt upon a blackout using an APC SmartUPS? >> If so please clue me in as to how you did it. > >I've once got two Smart UPSen to play with for a weekend. The >resulting code (a header file describing most of the UPS protocol, and >a small demo utility) can be found under: > > ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/people/wunsch/smartups/ In case anyone is interested, the Minuteman UPS (I don't recall who makes it) documents the use of the serial port in the manual, unlike APC. I called APC when I was thinking of getting a UPS, and told them I want to use it under operating systems other than the ones they support, and asked if they would tell me the protocol, and they said no. Screw 'em. --Tim Smith