On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > I ended up with an APC BE550G from Amazon. > > It came yesterday so I plugged it in and let it charge up overnight. > This morning I plugged my computer and monitors into it and this > afternoon I have Googled and found I can install apcupsd via Synaptic. I > also installed the GUI monitor gapcmon. > > For instructions I used: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/apcupsd > > It helpfully told me a few things I needed to change in a couple of > files. But it left out an important step: how to start the daemon. I > took a guess that it was "sudo apcupsd start" and learned I was correct. > > I confirmed that apcupsd exists in /etc/init.d. Am I correct in assuming > that apcupsd will start every time the machine boots? > > Thanks for all the support. >
You should test the setup by pulling the plug on the UPS and making sure that everything shuts down correctly. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
