[wplug] UPS with shutdown?

[Tim Lesher]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:48:32AM -0400, Russ Schneider wrote:
> 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?

It's the other way around: you run a daemon called powerd on your
machine that catches a packet from the UPS (attached to the serial
port), and decides what to do.

Check the Linux/UPS Howto at www.tldp.org for more details.

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Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws>
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