UPS advice, please ...

[Dan O'Connor]

>I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect 
>them
> against power outages.
>
> These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just
> some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time to clean 
> up.
>
> What do I need and where can I look for more detailed information.


I use upsmon, from the ports collection. Nothing fancy, and it works 
only with APC Smart-UPS...but it works great, and the shutdown 
time-delay is configurable. The Smart-UPS connects to your computer via 
a serial port.

~Dan