On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:08:49 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > If you use nut the shutdowns and reboots can be made automatic. One > machine directly monitors the ups and the other machines talk to it. > When the charge in the ups drops low enough the machine in contact with > the ups tells the other machines to shutdown. Then it shuts down and > then the ups cuts power. If the bios settings are correctly set, when > power is restored the machines will all start back up. The ups may or > may not have a way to delay restoring power until it has a minimum > charge (to allow another clean shutdown if the power fails again > immediately). Does that work if I have several UPSs as well as several computers? Also, two laptops and an EeePC are sometimes in the LAN, sometimes not -- and may be connected to various UPSs ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines