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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What program monitors the serial port for UPS status?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 05:24:14 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Craig Shrimpton <craigs@os.com>

Craig Shrimpton wrote:
> Linux has a program called powerd that monitors the serial port for the UPS.
> What is FreeBSD's equivalent?

tar tvzf /cdrom/dists/xperimnt/xperimnt.tgz | grep ups
drwxr-xr-x bin/bin           0 Nov 12 21:52 1995 xperimnt/smartups/
-rw-r--r-- bin/bin         822 Nov 11 13:12 1995
xperimnt/smartups/README
-rw-r--r-- bin/bin         188 Oct 30 06:20 1995
xperimnt/smartups/Makefile
-rw-r--r-- bin/bin        6164 Oct 30 06:20 1995
xperimnt/smartups/main.c
-rw-r--r-- bin/bin        7817 Oct 30 13:16 1995
xperimnt/smartups/smartups.h
-rw-r--r-- bin/bin        7343 Oct 30 06:20 1995
xperimnt/smartups/terminal.c
-rw-r--r-- bin/bin        4221 Oct 30 06:20 1995 xperimnt/smartups/ups.c
-rw-r--r-- bin/bin        2894 Oct 30 06:20 1995
xperimnt/smartups/upsmon.h

There's something in the experimental collection which may or may not
help.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project