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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!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.networking.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: need comments on Uninteruptable Power Supply Date: 19 May 1996 13:03:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4nn667$1ii@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960519000056.20746A-100000@bluejay.creighton.edu> <Drn7JM.IxD@ritz.mordor.com> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc:3925 comp.os.linux.misc:104594 comp.os.os2.networking.misc:14308 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19675 comp.unix.misc:22864 ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) wrote: > How good of a deal? APC UPS's in that range are about US$400-500 and > I think there are FreeBSD utilities that can work with their "smart" > interfaces. ...somewhere on ww.net (ftp.ww.net?). There's also a mailing list, ask majordomo@ww.net for help. Assuming you can reverse-engineer the protocols for another UPS, Alex Yushin's upsd should be easily extensible to other devices than APC UPSen however. -- 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. ;-)