On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Jayakara Kini <jayakara.kini at gmail.com> wrote: > I am not aware if there is already such a facility. > > My UPS has a USB interface and has a special driver which works only > on Windows :(.
My APC UPS has an USB interface that works with apcupsd on Solaris. Regards, Moinak. > > This is what I did: > I connected my desktop to UPS. > I connected my modem to raw power. > Enabled NWAM on my desktop > > Ran a while loop, as root, which pings yahoo.com every 2 minutes. > If three attempts fail, then I poweroff the system. > > In case the power comes back within that time, then it'll continue to > work as NWAM would re-enable the interface. > > Because of buggy NWAM this would not work every time. So, in the > while loop, I would disable and enable nwam service. That worked. > > One issue with this is that the network immediately fails if there is > a power failure. Since my priorities have changed, I've now connected > my modem to the UPS as well.. > > ~Kini > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:59 PM, sham pavman <shampavman.cg at gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am planning on writing a poweroff script that automatically checks to see >> if the system is running on UPS and if so then attempts a shutdown >> immediately. >> I got this idea,thanks to very reliable power supply in our area. ;-) >> I have an UPS that gives me a backup of 15mins ,and more often than not,my >> computer runs all through the night. >> >> Now I am not sure if there is already such a script or service that is >> running and its only a matter of enabling it to reap the benefits.. >> But if not they i want to give it a try.. >> >> On this regard ,i have a few queries.. >> I dont know which script actually has all the power info in it. >> So i wanted to know where i need to look for these informations and >> perhaps extract from it to see if its running on UPS then do the rest.. >> >> I would like to give this a try myself ,so can you please let me know how i >> need to proceed? >> >> Regards >> Shampavman >> blogs.sun.com/sham >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ug-bosug mailing list >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >> > > > > -- > Jayakara Kini > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
