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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD v2.1 and an U.P.S. (help needed) Date: 24 Mar 1996 23:09:01 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4j4kmd$5tu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4iplfl$h6g@carroll1.cc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Cc: rhiggins@carroll1.cc.edu (Ron Higgins) rhiggins@carroll1.cc.edu (Ron Higgins) writes: > Anyone else out there do this already? (i.e, get a UPS to talk to a BSD > system) I've been recommended a APC Back UPS 450 which has a 9-pin > interface on it to allow such communication, but don't know what kind of > other hardware and software I'm going to need. There's an ups daemon under development. The author is Alexis Yushin <alexis@ww.net>. You can ask majordomo@ww.net for the upsd mailing list. Note that the BackUPS is a `dumb' UPS. Currently, upsd is oriented towards the SmartUPS line. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)