>On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:06:54PM -0700, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>  In fact, most of the APC UPSs are only or mostly USB
>
>The new types, yes. Lots of the ones you can get from eBay is serial
>only still.

The MGE (www.mgeups.us) UPS recommended earlier stll has USB and 
serial both on some models.

www.exploits.org has links to a netbsd package that should to work 
with MGE's SHUT protocol as well as many others (plus there are a lot 
on pkgsrc). (It's just the homepage for the ups-nut NetBSD pkg).

Thanks all for all the tips;  I've not had time yet to try fixing the 
filesystem issues yet, but I did think about the UPS situation during 
the day.

I think putting the exploit.org drivers on my OS X machine (which can 
talk to my current USB model), broadcast the status from OS X (all 
stuff should be ready to download and go) and then running just the 
UPS network monitor on the Qube is the way to go.

That way the OS X machine will trigger on low battery, the Qube can 
still shutdown, and I don't have to try and figure out what to do 
with the console output (the Qube only has ONE serial port, which is 
where console goes to by default- that  could be bad to turn off :). 
This is assuming that the netbsd package on exploit.org works (sounds 
good anyway, and my current UPS is on there, as well as the MGE. I'm 
thinking of getting a new MGE unit anyway; my current battery is 
geting old).

The only down side is that is one more CPU that should be left on.

Thanks for the help so far, I really appreciate it.

Brian


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