-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2008-12-01 at 22:28 -0600, JB2 wrote:
Problem is, neither apcupsd nor nut are very easy to setup. As a matter of fact, they're simply a PITA and most 'average' users give up after just a few minutes of trying. It's unfortunate, because if one has an UPS and isn't nearby to turn the machine off when the power goes out, the battery gets used up lots faster (meaning it won't last nearly as long as if it could be automatically shutdown in a minute or less with the software). :(
You are absolutely right, I had to fight it over with nut for some days. I won. Part of the battle has been registered here, in this mail list ;-) I opened several bugzillas about the problems I found, and I still have in my to-do list checking of the proposed changes in one of the bugzillas. Actually, nut wold have worked almost out of the box if a certain change is applied to the configuration. The problem is knowing which change... and only for one model. The list of hardware and drivers they have is not very helpful in this respect. But the way, nut doesn't power off immediately, but it waits till the UPS unit reports itself as nearly depleted. This is not configurable, as far as I could see. However, you can define your own rules to power off by time, but this is not trivial. I have set mine to suspend to disk (not 'halt') after two minutes. The developers think that it is better to use the battery till almost no charge remain, in the hope that electricity returns in time. I think different, because power problems can repeat themselves, and, at least in my case, the battery takes 8 hours to recharge: time enough for another outage. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk1ZCwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UczACgmWDBhLnq9AksqNFYEpcJijLt aCcAn1wEpkHAQaR19I4FYtb6TlYPMk7F =WZPi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org