I am new Linux(SUSE 10) from Windows XP. I am enjoying Marcel's new book(also enjoyed your 2 hr interview on Computer Am.) Have question for you or anyone with ideas on Back-UPS. I live in Florida, a place with lots of interrupted power to my house. With XP I set program to automatically shut down when I lose power. How do Linux users approach this? My computer stays on all time. Thanks, |
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Well I wish that I could
Well I wish that I could help more. In the back of my head, I thought APC in some backhand way had linux info available. Guess not.
You have checked out
http://www.networkupstools.org/client-projects/
I use the nut project for one of mine, but without digging don't recall whether they supported APC. I left a note on the APC site that I had returned my APC since Linux support was difficult. I never heard back from customer support.
I guess your APC is older, I believe all lately have been USB communications.
Just configure it unders Windows, all you lose is the communications, it doesn't affect it doing its primary job. I don't have Windows on this computer anymore.
Cheerio
Merv Curley
Toronto, On
currently Kanotix 2005-4
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