On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:29:28AM +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: > Hi Emard, > > 2008/5/2 Emard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > HI all > > > > How to setup nut to use and monitor laptop battery on linux? > > (/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state) > > why would you do so? there is nothing to gain doing so (no
Laptop may be considered a replacement (or "hot-spare") for the if a real nut server in the production setup goes down. > master/slave conf possible). Why not? Machines (slaves) on the network may be on dumb ups-es with no management link, and be connected to network with a nut running on a laptop (master) which 'knows' power fail condition and serve dumb ups machines, shutting them down few minutes after power failure. Much better than dumb ups alone. > there are already many PM tools suite in the field, and even excellent > desktop integration. > NUT even tries to join these effort through HAL. _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
