Heck, why bother with the HOWTO?
http://www.apcc.com/tools/download/sw_kit.cfm?sku=sdw31
APC took the time to write software for Linux, including a RedHat rpm
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Olszewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 2:02 PM
To: Robert Haehnel; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: auto shutdown w/ UPS
I haven't done this myself ... but there is a UPS HowTo at www.linuxdoc.org
that specifically discusses "dumb UPSs" -- APC is the HowTo's example -- and
lists several packages that communicate with them.
At 02:26 PM 4/5/00 EDT, Robert Haehnel wrote:
>Hey, I want to get my system to autoshutdown when the power goes out before
>the UPS runs out of juice.
>
>I see in inittab a line that is suppose to handle this sort of thing, but
I'm
>not sure how to get my UPS to communicate to my Linux Box and make all of
that
>work.
>
>I'm running RH6, and an APC SmartUPS V/S 650. It has a serial connection
that
>goes from the UPS to one of the serial ports on the Linux box, but after
that,
>I'm not sure what to do to get linux to reconize a power fault state via
the
>serial port.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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