Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS shutdown - always the thing to do?

2007-11-20 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:31:59AM +0100, Arjen de Korte wrote: The best answer we can offer here, is to just try it out on your specific kind of hardware. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Of course. The shortcoming being that running the UPS down that far would take a few hours - at

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS shutdown - always the thing to do?

2007-11-20 Thread Arjen de Korte
The best answer we can offer here, is to just try it out on your specific kind of hardware. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Of course. The shortcoming being that running the UPS down that far would take a few hours - at which point I start thinking asking around might be more

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS shutdown - always the thing to do?

2007-11-20 Thread Mark E. Hansen
On 11/19/07 18:28, Whit Blauvelt wrote: Now looking at the FAQ again, it offers the same snippet of code as the Install doc, but implies that it isn't needed just in case the bios - as mine does - has an always power on when power's restored option. I don't see how that will help... If

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS shutdown - always the thing to do?

2007-11-19 Thread Mark E. Hansen
On 11/19/07 12:46, Whit Blauvelt wrote: Hi, In an instance where the system is in a sometimes-unattended facility, are there different implications to shutting down the UPS from a script, as compared to not doing so? My goal is to have systems recover ASAP when the power comes back. My UPS

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS shutdown - always the thing to do?

2007-11-19 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Mark, Thanks. That helps clarify my question. Okay, so Nut picks up the signal from the UPS that it's time to shut down the PC. The PC does its shutdown, and then from the Nut install doc You should configure your system to power down the UPS after the filesystems are remounted read-only. What

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS shutdown - always the thing to do?

2007-11-19 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Now looking at the FAQ again, it offers the same snippet of code as the Install doc, but implies that it isn't needed just in case the bios - as mine does - has an always power on when power's restored option. If that implication is right, then does that mean that soon after the UPS gives the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS shutdown - always the thing to do?

2007-11-19 Thread Charles Lepple
On Nov 19, 2007 9:28 PM, Whit Blauvelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, that could leave a small window between the PC's going off and the UPS cutting the power (when not commanded to do so prematurely with that shutdown command) in which power restoration wouldn't trigger the PC rebooting -