On Tuesday 24 May 2005 01:57 pm, Michael W Cocke wrote:
On Tue, 24 May 2005 16:02:53 -0400, you wrote:
Has anyone used the software from APC (their backup "Plus") for Caldera? If so, does it work properly? If not, what software do you use in KDE to control an APC UPS?
Thanks,
Fred
Powerchute is what ships with APC power supplies (don't know what you're talking about 'backup plus') and it's crap. Look into apcupsd. If you have one of the usb comm models you'll need to build from tarball and --enable-usb, but it's completely brainless.
Here's the how-to I wrote the last time I said it was totally brainless and someone didn't get it. http://www.catherders.com/tikiwiki-1.9.0/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=11
Mike-
-- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. --
Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments. I'm using the pbeagent-7.0.2-110.i386.rpm that I downloaded from APC's website last Dec. It was the only package for linux that supported my APC Backup UPS ES 725. I know its running, but I've never seen a message from it but did experience three power outages last month and my system never went down. I guess I should look for a log file for it.
-- Russ