In message <40BBD4A8.4050609@starling.us>, Gan Uesli Starling writes:
>Hve just today purchased an APC Back-UPS XS 1500 uninterruptable
>poser supply. Anybody know of a BSD program the twin of what
>came on CD for Win32, MacOS, etc for monitoring power supply
>state and shutting down when needed?

You can find pkgsrc/sysutils/apcupsd and nuts.  They'll both handle 
serial port APC UPSs.  As far as I know, neither will handle USB UPSs
on NetBSD; there's apparently some support in nuts for Linux, but last 
time I checked, quite a while back, it didn't compile on NetBSD and 
might have been experimental even on Linux.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb