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[Matthew Seaman]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:23:18PM -0700, ase at hush.com wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I currently have an APC  Smart-UPS 1000, It is connected to my win2k
> 
> machine using a serial cable and using power chute I can have the computer
> shutdown when the battery gets low. There are 3 computers connected to
> it, my FreeBSD server, my gentoo workstation, and my windows 2000 workstation.
> 
> What I'd really like to do is find a way to run a daemon the server that
> will shutdown my windows and gentoo machines after it goes X number of
> minutes into ups mode.
> 
> Anyone know any software of the like?

nut.

    http://www.exploits.org/nut/
    ports: sysutils/nut

Should do everything that you require.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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