[wplug] UPS with shutdown?

[John Harrold]

Sometime in September Russ Schneider assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Does there exist a UPS (uninteruptable power supply, not the brown guys) 
| that will, when the power goes out, send a shutdown -h now signal to 
| your machine?
| 
| Power just went out here at my house for the first time in 5 years. 
| Forced me to realize I should have a UPS.
| 
| I just remember hearing somewhere that a UPS can shutdown your machine 
| cleanly in the event of an outage.

i have one from belkin and we have a couple here at school from apc. the
cheaper ones are just batteries which are good for brownouts. what you need
is one with a serial or usb port on the back which can be used to
communicate with your computer. i believe apc comes with 'powerchute' which
works in linux. the belkin one i have at home was cheaper at the time and
it came with something called 'bulldog' which works well. 

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