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From: cals@cals01.NEWPORT.RI.US (Charles A. Sefranek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Followup to: UPS initiated autoshutdown
Keywords: UPS, blackout, daemon
Message-ID: <462@cals01.NEWPORT.RI.US>
Date: 19 Jul 89 01:55:37 GMT
References: <216@tnl.UUCP> <1989Jul9.193016.9426@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: cals@cals01.Newport.RI.US (Charles A. Sefranek)
Organization: My Very Own Castle, Portsmouth RI
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In article <1989Jul9.193016.9426@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>In article <216@tnl.UUCP> norstar@tnl.UUCP (Daniel Ray) writes:
>>
>>Hi. A few weeks ago I posted an article here asking about a daemon that would
>>sense a power failure and initiate an automatic shutdown within a controllable
>>period of time. This would be used in conjunction with an uninterruptable
>>power supply (battery backup) so the system could be brought down cleanly
>>while power was still available thru the UPS.  ...

Something about this always bothered me -- is there any way to tell the UPS
to turn off after the computer has been shutdown cleanly?  It seems a shame
to run the UPS battery into the ground during a prolonged power outage,
especially if the computer could be safely powered down at that point. This
assumes of course that everything is unattended, like at 2:00 AM on a cold
winter day with three feet of fresh snow covering your driveway.. :-)
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