On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 19:43 -0500, Bob Cahn wrote: > I'm contemplating buying an APC Back-UPS ES Battery Backup (BE500U). > >From reading the HOWTOs there appears to be the APC UPS daemon at > www2.apcupsd.com. Can anyone advise if this is a simple or a complex > project. I lose power about once every 2 weeks in winter and it's only > a matter of time before the disk gets zapped. Have APC UPSs for my 2 home machines, as well as at work. Highly recommended. Have run the APC-supplied software at work, but switched to nut 'long about FC1. Configuration with nut is not too tricky. Phil