Check with the manfucturer as well. I have a MGE UPS and they have Linux
drivers for them on their web site.
See Ya!
Preston
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
>Samy Elashmawy wrote:
>>
>> I just got a PK Blackout Buster ups. It has a canle that hooks up to the pc
>> to signal the pc that there is no power.
>>
>> Any one know ith there are drivers/software the can be used to take
>> advantage of this ?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Samy
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>Did you try looking at the UPS-HOWTO? If you installed the HOWTOs from
>the SuSE CDROM set you'll find it in /usr/doc/howto/UPS-HOWTO.gz. I
>found the UPS howto quite useful. I was able to make my a couple of
>signaling cables for a pair of APC Back-UPS units I have. A little
>hacking to the backupsd.c source included in the howto and I now have
>two SuSE 5.3 systems that are shutdown automatically when a power
>failure occurs.
>
>With regard to SuSE's /etc/rc.d/powerfail script, I didn't find it quite
>satisfactory when I was testing a simulated power failure. The system
>would begin a shutdown as soon as a SIGPWR signal was sent to the init
>process. A majority of power failures I experience are less than 10
>seconds in duration. I much prefer a timed shutdown sequence where if
>the power comes back before the timeout has expired, the system shutdown
>is cancelled.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tony
>
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