>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:27:43 -0500 (EST)
>From: Dan J Fraser <dfraser@mother.com>
>
>The correct list for this is sort of fuzzy...

tech-kern is probably the best choice.

>I'd like to set up NetBSD to automatically shut down my UPS during a power
>failure... monitoring the UPS is not a problem, but I need to send an
>ioctl to the serial port to tell the UPS to shut off power to the computer
>after NetBSD has shut down completely.
>
>What's the best way to implement this?  

One way is to write an LKM which registers a shutdown hook (see
shutdownhook_establish(9)) to send the message to the UPS.
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