Powerfail confusion

[jdow]

From: "Tom Horsley" <tomhorsley at adelphia.net>

> If I plug in the usb cable for my APC Back-UPS system,
> I do indeed see the battery icon in a gnome session,
> so it is clear that something is talking to it.
> 
> Is that something smart enough to cleanly shutdown the
> system on a power failure? Or do I need extra software
> like NUT or apcupsd? (I'd kinda rather not answer this
> question via the obvious experiment :-).

apcupsd can help. But I don't know if any FC build is "up to date"
enough to work right with USB.

{^_^}