Re: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500

2002-10-11 Thread Ibly Piblo
Sorry I missed this trhead. I wonder, is there a way to make the apc power daemon recognise the ups? I'm sorry for being so poor in knowledge, but I could not understand the docs and faqs about the ups software. I do not know what to type on the command line or what application to bring up to co

auto shutdown with UPS [was] : Re: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500

2002-10-09 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:33:56 -0700 Cory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of APC BackUPS, I have a 650 BackUPS Pro, with serial status > reporting. How can I integrate the Smart portion into linux? I would love to > know how to set it up so that when there's only a couple of minutes left of >

RE: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500

2002-10-08 Thread Cory
14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500 << File: message.footer >> On Monday October 7 2002 11:36 am, Sharrea wrote: > Tom, > (I saved your message above back in August) If you don't mind me > asking, in your opinion, would an APC BackUPS 50

Re: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500

2002-10-08 Thread SystemAdmin ABC Mini Storage LLC
--- Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday October 8 2002 08:20 am, Sabin, Matthew wrote: > > I should probably start this with "don't try this at home..." but I'm > > going to propose precicely that: > > > > I have taken an APC UPS with batteries which had failed, and replaced > >

Re: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500

2002-10-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday October 8 2002 08:20 am, Sabin, Matthew wrote: > I should probably start this with "don't try this at home..." but I'm > going to propose precicely that: > > I have taken an APC UPS with batteries which had failed, and replaced > them with cables run out the side to a pair of golf-cart

RE: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500

2002-10-08 Thread Sabin, Matthew
Title: RE: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500 I should probably start this with "don't try this at home..." but I'm going to propose precicely that: I have taken an APC UPS with batteries which had failed, and replaced them with cables run out the side to a pair of golf-cart

Re: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500

2002-10-07 Thread Sharrea
On Tuesday 08 Oct 2002 8:13 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: >It'd probly get both systems past a real short power loss, but you > really should get an UPS for each system. There's cheaper UPS' than > APC, but with those you'll probly endin spendin more than the initial > savings down the road replaci

Re: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday October 7 2002 11:36 am, Sharrea wrote: > Tom, > (I saved your message above back in August) If you don't mind me > asking, in your opinion, would an APC BackUPS 500 run an Athlon 1.0 > GHz and a Duron 900 MHz both with 17" monitors (also plugged in)? And > perhaps my external modem? I

Re: [newbie] APC BackUPS 500

2002-10-07 Thread Sharrea
On Saturday 03 Aug 2002 6:31 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > 150W per system would probly be overkill. You can't just add up PSU > ratings. 'Sides y'all are forgetting addin in monitors. Still, figure > 150W per system is probly adequate for most all systems includin the > monitor. Mostly UPS's a

[newbie] APC BackUPS 500 and autoshutdown

2001-02-19 Thread Steve Gulick
I have an APC BackUPS 500 hooked up to a 7.1 box using the cable provided with the UPS. I installed the apcupsd-3.8.0-1mdk-i586.rpm and followed the instructions for setting up the config file for my UPS. The daemon doesn't power down the Linux box and I am not sure what I did wrong. Below is a c