Samy Elashmawy wrote:
>
> I just got a PK Blackout Buster ups. It has a canle that hooks up to the pc
> to signal the pc that there is no power.
>
> Any one know ith there are drivers/software the can be used to take
> advantage of this ?
>
> thanks
>
> Samy
> -
> To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
> this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
> Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the
> archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
Did you try looking at the UPS-HOWTO? If you installed the HOWTOs from
the SuSE CDROM set you'll find it in /usr/doc/howto/UPS-HOWTO.gz. I
found the UPS howto quite useful. I was able to make my a couple of
signaling cables for a pair of APC Back-UPS units I have. A little
hacking to the backupsd.c source included in the howto and I now have
two SuSE 5.3 systems that are shutdown automatically when a power
failure occurs.
With regard to SuSE's /etc/rc.d/powerfail script, I didn't find it quite
satisfactory when I was testing a simulated power failure. The system
would begin a shutdown as soon as a SIGPWR signal was sent to the init
process. A majority of power failures I experience are less than 10
seconds in duration. I much prefer a timed shutdown sequence where if
the power comes back before the timeout has expired, the system shutdown
is cancelled.
Regards,
Tony
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the
archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
