On 01/10/2013 04:21 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:01:47AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > > I got an APC Back-UPS BX1300G-CN from the local Staples. No worry > whatsoever about overloading this baby. I'm currently running a > "torture test" with the monitor, the modem, and both PC's running. > They're both doing an update. I set things up so that both are building > gcc at the same time. Even so, the load indicator is only lighting up 2 > of 5 bars, indicating approximately 40% of max load. It might've been a > different story years ago back in the days of the Pentium 4 or AMD "space > heaters", plus add-on video cards. > > Being the geek that I am, I did RTFM the docs that came with the UPS. > It has an option to decide how much to allow voltage to vary before > switching over to battery power. I selected the narrowest range, i.e. > the "sensitive electronics" setting. > > One question about the configuration of apcupsd; what do I have to do > get it to execute "/usr/sbin/hibernate" when hydro is out, and the > battery is running low? >
I've never used hibernate. I would imagine that that apcupsd would have a hook. I googled quickly and found an ArchWiki article that discusses it. Apparently you can create a symlink and apcupsd will use it rather than the usual shutdown process. Disclaimer: I have not tried it myself. Dan
