Back when I first started using a UPS ( mine is a APC ) support for APC was nonexistent. The standard init package came with powerd at that time. I do not consider myself a programmer, but more or less taught myself C some years ago. I hacked my own cable and rewrote powerd to first give powerfail warning, with notice that power would be shut down in 15 ( or so ) minutes. It also monitored a lead which told that battery power was low. If that activated then a shutdown would be started, after which the UPS was shut off.
At that time this was somewhat difficult. I found myself going in circles trying to follow how init worked. When I upgraded to Debian 2.1 I did not have to modify my powerd at all, but the scripting (in init.d) actually pretty much worked as is. Don't know if this really helps, but I would say that you should be able to figure out how to make genpower to work, or quite possibly the Tripp Lite rpm, to work with a little bit of resolve, and some digging through documentation. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Greetings: > > I have a Tripp Lite Internet Office 500 UPS and I want to set up a power > monitoring daemon. Tripp Lite has an rpm package (no source) for this but it > requires a tweak to the kernel to get it working. Before I do this, I wanted > to find out if anyone has tried setting up power monitoring software for > a Tripp Lite product. > > In partucular, I'd like to know if anyone has tried their software and also > the more generic UPS packages like genpower. > > All success or failure stories will be appreciated. -- *********************** Running Debian Linux *********************** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * ************* pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? *************/ --