UPS

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Wed Sep 28 05:22:07 PDT 2005


Gerard Seibert wrote:

> I have FreeBSD 5.4 running on an older Compaq computer. I was
> wondering if someone could recommend a suitable UPS. I tried
> googling around, but mostly I found posts regarding problems
> that users had getting UPS to work dependably with FreeBSD.
>
> I am not looking for anything extraordinary. Just something,
> that can gracefully shut down my system if I lose power. An
> occurrence that transpires habitually in the northeast USA
> when [sic] I reside,
>

I'd have a look at NUT's site and documentation.  In particular:

http://www.networkupstools.org/doc/2.0.1/README.html

contains their "hardware support table".  I believe the port
is in /usr/ports/sysutils....

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey


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