On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Of course you can change these scripts to do anything you want. If you > want to tweak the polling timing, you must recompile from source. > However, I think the default scripts/values are reasonable and will suit > most user's needs. I've had momentary power failures or brownouts that > weren't even noticed because they fell within polling periods. I've also > had some that were detected, but the effects were cancelled on the next > poll when bpowerd detected that the power was restored.
That's the thing that I want to avoid.... "Oh my god... everybody, the power is GONE! You all have to log off in 15 minutes because that's as long as the UPS... uhhh.... hang on a sec.... oh, nevermind. Go back to what you were doing." :) - Joe
