On 1 April 2013 09:01, Shamit Verma <[email protected]> wrote: > One way to do that is to use a USB Hard disk enclosures that requires AC > power. Connect this enclosure to mains and add a cheap / spare SATA desktop > HDD. > With a cron job, a shell script can check presence of this HDD (E.g. lsusb > | grep "device-id-here") every minute. If this HDD is not present, shutdown > can be initiated by the same script. > > Similarly, you can attach a cheap / spare router (would cost 400 - 900 Rs) > to AC mains and check reach-ability of this router to determine presence of > power in mains.
Nice and cheap ideas :) Regards, Pavithran -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
