Subject: Re: Installing a UPS for a NetBSD server... software and procedures?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Gilles Gravier <Gilles@Gravier.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/23/2007 14:27:33
Steve,
Can you help me there? How do you use that specific line? In what?
Thanks in advance,
Gilles.
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:12:19 -0400
> "Courtney R. Spencer" <cspencer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> I wrote the maintainers of apcupsd a while back about this in that
>> there is no need to disable uhidev when you take care to declare
>> direct addresses in your kernel. There is also no need to patch uhid.
>>
>> http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.apcupsd.user/2006-03/msg00002.html
>>
>> One maintainer corrected the documentation in an old version but it
>> looks like the new documentation declares the same (non)requirement.
>>
>>
> Well, pkgsrc has an old version...
>
> FYI, this is the line I used successfully on several machines yesterday:
>
> ugen* at uhub? port ? vendor "0x051d" flags 1
>
> The documentation should probably specify it. (0x051d is the vendor
> code for APC.)
>
>
> --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>
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