Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?

[Murray Taylor]

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> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> illoai at gmail.com
> Sent: Sunday, 13 May 2007 5:19 PM
> To: jekillen
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> Subject: Re: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?
> 
> On 12/05/07, jekillen <jekillen at prodigy.net> wrote:
> > Hello again;
> > Is there software for ups auto shutdown and restart for use 
> with a ups
> > system that has the capacity; I.E. a serial connection and 
> references
> > in the manual to software (for Windows mostly) download? Currently
> > I have a Vesta Pro 600 unit. I had one made by Minuteman 
> that crapped
> > out on me last night. It had been doing ok and was a 
> replacement for one
> > made by Tripp Lite, which also failed permanently. I am 
> running one desk
> > top FreeBSD system, headless but with high speed SCSI 
> drives in addition
> > to the boot drive. I am away during the week for at least 8 
> - 9 hours
> > during
> > the week and cant be there if the power goes down to shut the system
> > down before the ups exhausts its battery.
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> 
> Sounds like quite the varied selection of hardware.
> I am sure there are people here with experience
> in this area, but as a starter, look at:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=ups&stype=all&sekti
> on=sysutils
> and perhaps:
> http://www.networkupstools.org/
> 
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Network UPS tools in the ports tree can do this...

cd /usr/ports
make search key="network ups"

will find the main port and the optional addons.

mjt
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