On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:58, Anne Wilson wrote: > It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages this > winter, so I'm trying to get my ancient APC Backups to autoshutdown, > in case I'm not around to catch it. Up to now it has just held the > system going long enough for me to shutdown, but that's too risky if > power cuts can be any time. > > So - I've installed apcupsd. I've gone through the conf file, and > checked what I can, but the serial cable I had supplied with this > unit doesn't indicate type at all. The documentation says that you > can run apctest to check it. I can't find apctest, and it doesn't > appear on either my installed list or installable list. I know that > some of you run apcupsd, so do you have the test program, and if so, > how did you find it? > > Anne
First, are you sure that its supposed to be an executable? What I mean is it possible it's a test procedure not an executable that runs a test? urpmf yeilds apcupsd:/usr/share/doc/apcupsd-3.10.5/doc/manual/apctest.html is why I'm asking. < tongue in cheek mode > Second I'd like to comment on this recent trend of power outages. I realize that technology wise at least, California Style, and trends, have an ever increasing affect on the US, and even the world at large. During the summer of 2002 We here in California experienced a number of brown out's, and rolling blackout's. Next thing we know it's all the rage on the US east coast. Except they had to just go one better and really take down the whole east coast in one gulp. Now it seems according to what Anne is saying, this trend is spreading to Europe and England. Personally I'm flattered but I would like to point out that not everything we do here is worth copying. </toungue in cheek mode > James
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