> On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:26 am, Hongwei Li wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Does anybody know if a good UPS with automatic safe-shuting-down and >> startup features available for fc3 linux system? Basically, I need: >> >> 1. If there is a power outage, the UPS uses its battery to provide power >> to the linux system (5 to 10 minutes, or longer). When the batter's >> power >> goes down to some level, say 50%, and the AC power is still not back, >> the >> UPS will shutdown the linux system normally to avoid any damage. > > I use an APC Back-UPS Pro 500 with a USB interface. The software included > is > for windows, however, a bit of looking around, I found a UPS howto > (probably > at Linux Document Project (www.tldp.org). It referenced a daemon > "apcupsd", > which seems to do the job. I was a little leery of the USB interface, but > it > seems to just work. Also check out http://www.apcupsd.com/. > Thank you very much for the information! Hongwei
