Re: In need of a UPS

2002-12-10 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:47:10PM -0500, Brian Ashe wrote: Hello Daevid, I don't mean to refute those who say APC makes good UPSes,... I haven't used that brand. However, I DO have two Tripplite units here, and they also both work just fine. The software they provide does work with Linux and

Re: In need of a UPS

2002-12-10 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:38:42AM -0500, fred smith wrote: I don't mean to refute those who say APC makes good UPSes,... I haven't used that brand. Hmm...I will, and I have. APC software runs deep-cycles on the batteries; effectively, the batteries MUST be replaced every two years in 24x7

Re: In need of a UPS

2002-12-09 Thread Mike Burger
You could go with the same brand as you have now, if it's working properly with linux. In actuality, the UPS itself doesn't shutdown or restart anything...it can send signals to the system, if a cable is hooked up, and a daemon is monitoring that port, and that daemon can issue the correct

Re: In need of a UPS

2002-12-09 Thread Mike Burger
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Peter Kiem wrote: Hi Daevid, The battery light on my UPS is on now all the time. It's fairly old and I think it's time I got rid of it. First, where do I go to throw out a UPS? I can't imagine it's good to just chuck it out with the garbage... I would think it

Subject: In need of a UPS

2002-12-09 Thread Ken Morley
David: If the battery light is continuously on on the UPS, why not just replace the battery? That's much cheaper than replacing the entire UPS and solves the problem of the shutdown software (assuming that the current UPS' shutdown software works adequately well). If it's an APC UPS (the most

Re: In need of a UPS

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Russo
Found this on the web... http://remus.rutgers.edu/~petechen/linux/UPS.html On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 00:29, Daevid Vincent wrote: The battery light on my UPS is on now all the time. It's fairly old and I think it's time I got rid of it. First, where do I go to throw out a UPS? I can't imagine

Re: In need of a UPS

2002-12-09 Thread Brian Ashe
Hello Daevid, Monday, December 9, 2002, 12:29:30 AM, you textually orated: DV The battery light on my UPS is on now all the time. It's fairly old and DV I think it's time I got rid of it. DV First, where do I go to throw out a UPS? I can't imagine it's good to DV just chuck it out with the

In need of a UPS

2002-12-08 Thread Daevid Vincent
The battery light on my UPS is on now all the time. It's fairly old and I think it's time I got rid of it. First, where do I go to throw out a UPS? I can't imagine it's good to just chuck it out with the garbage... I would think it needs recycling or containment or something. Secondly, can

Re: In need of a UPS

2002-12-08 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Daevid, The battery light on my UPS is on now all the time. It's fairly old and I think it's time I got rid of it. First, where do I go to throw out a UPS? I can't imagine it's good to just chuck it out with the garbage... I would think it needs recycling or containment or something.