Jozef Hitzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Another thing that interests me is, whether you can export the UPS via
> > a network block device to another system and if you can split an UPS
> > into two devices (one local and the other maybe exported over the
> > network) so that two clients can listen to them.
>
> There's no such support nowadays. Daemons connect to serial ports, then
> use their own udp or tcp communication. As for splitting .. right now it's
> done this way: every ups has got it's own low-level daemon. On the same
> comp there's upsd, which sums up all the data from all of them, and makes
> them accessible for as many clients as you want - local or remote,
> text-based or cgi, doesn't matter.
>
> There's a protocol ready for communicating things the other way back (I'm
> talking of Russell Kroll's smartupstools), so one day we'll have clients
> which set up things on ups (name, times, LEDs, etc).
>
> I quite like this design, with acl's and stuff; it should be good. If
> you can see a reason why /dev/ups would be needed, let me know.
Me too. Sound fine even for the setup we are planning. Currently we
are wayting for the ups to arrive, so I haven't looked at the setup
and tools.
MfG,
Goswin
