Robert Paulsen
Kevin, IIRC on 9.3 disks there are two programs or groups of
you to setup "an orderly unattended shutdown" one Program was called "nut", I think .. the other escapes me, however to make
On Thursday 18 August 2005 00:35, Rob Unsworth wrote: programs that allow the programs work
you must connect them to the computer either by serial (?) or it might have been a parallel port connection connector or I *think* but actually don't remember an usb connection.
My new APC has only a USB connection. [...]
The other program is apcupsd. Here is Description from rpm:
[...]
"APC" is a popular brand of UPS. I have one and am quite happy with it. The apcupsd program is very good and easy to configure. The USB support is especially nice. I recommend you get the latest version from http://www.apc.com instead of from the SuSE CD/DVD since the latest has some significant fixes.
I browsed the APC site for ten minutes and it was like pulling teeth to find software for Linux. At home tonight I'll look at the one that I did find, to see if it's actually apcupsd or something else. The site had fields for customer login (where you sign up for the opportunity to receive endless junk mail -- both dead trees and e-mail) but I never saw a site-search box which would be the preferred way to get directly to what I needed. Oh, wait... that would bypass all their opportunities to sell me more stuff... what was I thinking?
Of course if you have a different brand UPS apcupsd won't work for you. I used to use the nut program and found that it also worked well although it was somewhat confusing to set up. Nut supports many brands of UPS, but its support for the APC brand is not as complete as that of the apcupsd program.
My original question mentioned nut, and wondered if I'd need
to activate any system support for it, or if that was part
of the standard setup and all I'd have to do is install nut
and it would work.
I'm accustomed to years of reading this list, where somebody
says "I installed ABC and it won't work." The reply was often
"Didn't you install/activate the ABC kernel module (or compile
in the ABC support) before installing? Now you must undo
everything and start over..."
When I installed SuSE 9.3, I still had my old UPS and wasn't
bothering with any kind of power-handling software. Actually,
(blush) when I was originally installing and saw apcupsd
go past in the software list, I read "apCUPSd". :-)
So I probably figured that if CUPS needed it, it would be
a dependency, and otherwise it was something for special
purpose that I could ignore. I was partly right...