Steve Bellovin said:

>Has anyone tried using ups-nut or apcupsd with an APC UPS with USB?  
>(My, what a lot of acronyms....)  The documentation with those packages 
>suggest that they have some USB support for Linux, but I have no idea 
>if that works on NetBSD.  (I ask because I need to buy a couple of UPSs 
>soon, and the serial cable used by the UPSs is, to say the least, 
>funky.)

The APC software allows the possibility of a "master" UPS system. This talks
to all the other systems on the network and shuts them down. If the open
source stuff doesn't have this, it might be nice to add.

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