Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > Debian has a bpowerd package which will monitor the UPS and shutdown > > when the battery get's low. The part number of the cable to order > > is in the bpowerd package. The schematics for the cable are also there > > in case you are a glutton for punishment and want to build your own. > > How does bpowerd compare to the ups monitoring software that Best Power > provides? Are there any advantages?
I haven't looked at a recent version of the Best supplied software, but bpowerd is better in that it is a proper daemon and uses the syslog correctly. Also, it communicates with sysvinit thru a direct pipe (/dev/initctl) rather than using messy (and standards non-compliant) status files in /etc. Also, bpowerd is packaged for debian and takes much less configuration than the general purpose UPS packages (such as genpower). Also, bpower is Free Software. :) -Mitch
