Thomas Kear wrote: > Have you considered other software alternatives? > > My prefered UPS monitor is NUT (sys-power/nut on gentoo) > www.networkupstools.org > > Highly (and I do mean HIGHLY) configurable, support for many different > brands of UPS, shutdown of multiple network-connected PCs on the same > UPS, even GUI apps for display of UPS state data (see > net-misc/knutclient). > > Have a look if it does what you need. > > --Thomas >
Actually, that is what I have been using, or trying to. It just doesn't do the same as powstatd. It waits until the batteries are about dead then does it's thing. Powstatd doesn't. I can set it to wait a certain amount of time after power fails then tell it to shut down. Generally where I live, if the power is off more than about 5 minutes, it will be a while. There is no need for me to run down the batteries and shorten their lifespan just because the program is set up that way. That said, the last time I had a power failure, it didn't do anything. It just ran until it died. It was pissed too. I'm just hoping I can get powstatd installed and working. I have tried before but it never worked right. Gentoo has different init stuff. I think that is the biggest problem is the init part. Mandrake has the number system where Gentoo has, boot, default etc. I just couldn't get it installed right manually. Thanks for the info though. I wish it did work the same as powstatd. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
