On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 3:52 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:58, Anne Wilson wrote:
It is forecast that the UK will have considerable power outages this winter, so I'm trying to get my ancient APC Backups to autoshutdown, in case I'm not around to catch it. Up to now it has just held the system going long enough for me to shutdown, but that's too risky if power cuts can be any time.
So - I've installed apcupsd. I've gone through the conf file, and checked what I can, but the serial cable I had supplied with this unit doesn't indicate type at all. The documentation says that you can run apctest to check it. I can't find apctest, and it doesn't appear on either my installed list or installable list. I know that some of you run apcupsd, so do you have the test program, and if so, how did you find it?
Anne
First, are you sure that its supposed to be an executable? What I mean is it possible it's a test procedure not an executable that runs a test?
urpmf yeilds
apcupsd:/usr/share/doc/apcupsd-3.10.5/doc/manual/apctest.html
is why I'm asking.
That's the doc page. Half way down the first page it says 'If you don't know what cable you have, you can use the apctest program to determine the type of cable that you have'.
< tongue in cheek mode >LOL. I understand that the problem here is that we have converted most of our power stations to gas, in the name of the environment. We have been relying on our own supply of natural gas, which is now running low. Because we had that resource we didn't created storage for gas - and the Not-In-My-Backyard pressure groups carry a lot of weight here - like the rest of Europe did, so if we have a cold winter there are going to be problems.
Second I'd like to comment on this recent trend of power outages. I realize that technology wise at least, California Style, and
trends, have an ever increasing affect on the US, and even the
world at large. During the summer of 2002 We here in California
experienced a number of brown out's, and rolling blackout's. Next
thing we know it's all the rage on the US east coast. Except they
had to just go one better and really take down the whole east coast
in one gulp. Now it seems according to what Anne is saying, this
trend is spreading to Europe and England. Personally I'm flattered
but I would like to point out that not everything we do here is
worth copying.
</toungue in cheek mode >
Anne
how in the world is it possible that they could have been so short sited? I've been loosely following this stuff in the news and it's mind boggling. I'd expect this sort of thing from some US planners, but from cultures as mature as GB and Europe!
-- Mark
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