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Thomas Kear wrote: |
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> Have you considered other software alternatives? |
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> My prefered UPS monitor is NUT (sys-power/nut on gentoo) |
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> www.networkupstools.org |
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> Highly (and I do mean HIGHLY) configurable, support for many different |
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> brands of UPS, shutdown of multiple network-connected PCs on the same |
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> UPS, even GUI apps for display of UPS state data (see |
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> net-misc/knutclient). |
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> Have a look if it does what you need. |
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> --Thomas |
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Actually, that is what I have been using, or trying to. It just doesn't |
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do the same as powstatd. It waits until the batteries are about dead |
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then does it's thing. Powstatd doesn't. I can set it to wait a certain |
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amount of time after power fails then tell it to shut down. Generally |
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where I live, if the power is off more than about 5 minutes, it will be |
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a while. There is no need for me to run down the batteries and shorten |
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their lifespan just because the program is set up that way. That said, |
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the last time I had a power failure, it didn't do anything. It just ran |
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until it died. It was pissed too. |
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I'm just hoping I can get powstatd installed and working. I have tried |
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before but it never worked right. Gentoo has different init stuff. I |
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think that is the biggest problem is the init part. Mandrake has the |
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number system where Gentoo has, boot, default etc. I just couldn't get |
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it installed right manually. |
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Thanks for the info though. I wish it did work the same as powstatd. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) :-) |
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