Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 17:56, Dale wrote: > > >> I have a similar issue. I have a CyberPower UPS and should be using >> powstatd but it is not in portage and I have no clue how to get it >> there and the person who wrote powstatd doesn't know either. I have >> apcups installed but it does not work like it should. If I am not >> here to cut off the computer then I am stuck. >> >> Anybody know a easy way to get something in portage? I don't know >> near enough to do it myself, about portage or powstatd. I tried to >> install manually once, no worky just errors. Worked fine in Mandrake >> though. >> > > nut claims to support several CyberPower models, see here: > > http://www.networkupstools.org/compat/stable.html > > and it's in portage. Did you give it a try? >
Yup, actually that is what I am using now. I said apcups but it is actually nut and upsmon that I am using. Sorry. I tried apcups but it wouldn't work either. The powstatd program works very well. It is small and really simple to set up. I used it before I switched to Gentoo and is the only thing I have not been able to get to work since switching. Right now, if the power fails, my computer will just keep running until it cuts off. It sees that the power has failed but doesn't do anything about it. I had powstatd set up that if the power fails for longer than 15 minutes, then the shutdown started. Out here if the power is off longer than about 10 minutes, it will be a while. This happened the other day and I had to manually shutdown my system. According to the log, it didn't even know the power had failed this time. When I get another UPS it will a APC one. Then maybe I can get it to work like it should. I do like this one though. It can last a long time with my monitor turned off. I just wish powstatd was in portage. Dale :-) :-) :-)
