[K12OSN] is there a UPS known to work with K12LTSP?

[Calvin Dodge]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:32:15AM -0800, David Whitmer wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> There are some UPS (uninterruptible power supply)
> units available that, when connected to a Windows PC
> (whether via USB or serial port), can instruct that PC
> to shutdown when there is a power outage.
> 
> Does anyone know of a UPS that can do this with a
> computer running K12LTSP 4.2?  Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.

Most any APC unit should be able to do this - especially
the Smart-UPS units.

K12LTSP/Fedora has an application (nut) that's supposed to
do this, but I've had better luck with "apcupsd"
(http://www2.apcupsd.com). You can get Fedora-compatible
RPMS, so no compiling is required.

Calvin

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