Let me join that. I have a Sustainer interactive VA600 ups with serial connection and I am too cannot work with it from linux despite their promise in the specs. I mailed them to no avail. Can you send me the link to the tarball or send it by email directly ?
Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaul Karl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daniel Feiglin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "IGLU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: Re: UPS with Linux support - well sort of > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:34:59AM +0300, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > > Hello folks! > > > > People looking for a UPS with Linux support may find this useful: > > > > > I gather it is not open software, is it? Do *we* remember to ask for > full disclosure documentation when purchasing hardware? > > > > I just installed > > > Does it have a serial or usb interface? > > > > a 1KVa S1000 unit from Sustainer (www.sustainer.co.il, > > Bar Kochba 8, Bnei Brak, 03 5793686). > > > > It comes with the usual Win s/w with lots of pretty buttons and > > clock-like displays. It also comes with a grotty little tar file for > > Linux, containing the upsmon monitoring daemon and a text mode status > > display. > > > > They only work in superuser mode (yes, the display too), but work they > > do. The daemon does not support simple start and stop parameters. To > > stop it, kill -9 ... . That means, that writing a "standard" start/stop > > script in not on. Too bad for what follows. > > > > The documentation is written in a rather quaint Taiwanese English, and > > assumes that you can "intall" the daemon by editing an rc.local script. > > Of course in my SuSE 8.1 setup there aint no such thing, and I won't go > > into the morbid details here, beyond remarking that you need to add an > > S<something> file to kick off the daemon, to (say) the run levels 3 & 5 > > directories under /etc/init.d. > > > > All this crud would make it a bit of a pain for a newbie. > > > > DAF > > > > > Can you run it under strace and post the output? I hope that sending > the long output to the list is a good idea because the list's archiving > feature. Can you provide URLs for the software and/or email me the tar > ball? > -- > > Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
