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From: alan@curly.Viewlogic.COM (Alan Medsker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Auto shutdown (on power down) box
Keywords: UPS power shutdown unix epoch
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.174211@curly.Viewlogic.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 90 21:42:11 GMT
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Reply-To: alan@curly.Viewlogic.COM (Alan Medsker)
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I've got an Epoch-1 Infinitestorage NFS server, and a UPS that it runs
off of.  I'd like to find a way to have the server shut down
gracefully unattended when the power has been down for x minutes.

I need an external box of some sort, no doubt, either driven by the
contacts on the UPS (Clary) or just by the presence of power at an
outlet.

I'm thinking of a box that sends a programmable set of character
strings to an RS-232 port when the power goes down, and one or 
two settable periods after the power goes down, and when the power 
is restored.

Any ideas?

Alan

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