On Monday 14 August 2006 01:17, Peter Selinger wrote: > I don't see the first reason. Any UPS, when it receives the "shutdown" > command, should turn off the power for a minimum amount of time before > awaiting AC (just in case the AC power came on before the command was > received). This minimum amount of time (typically a few seconds) is
I think the justification here is that you may wish to turn the UPS off permanently under PC control. > Several of the newhidups subdrivers don't currently implement > ondelay/offdelay. (It is, however, possible to set shutdown timers > with upscmd). Almostjtag none of the serial drivers support it (at least > "grep offdelay drivers/*c" does not turn up many). I know for APC SmartUPS models there is gracedelay (equivalent to off delay), although there is no on delay there are several power off commands to deal with ensuring a power cycle. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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