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Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation]



Joe Emenaker wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> 
> > Of course you can change these scripts to do anything you want.  If you
> > want to tweak the polling timing, you must recompile from source.
> > However, I think the default scripts/values are reasonable and will suit
> > most user's needs.  I've had momentary power failures or brownouts that
> > weren't even noticed because they fell within polling periods.  I've also
> > had some that were detected, but the effects were cancelled on the next
> > poll when bpowerd detected that the power was restored.
> 
> That's the thing that I want to avoid.... "Oh my god... everybody, the
> power is GONE! You all have to log off in 15 minutes because that's as
> long as the UPS... uhhh.... hang on a sec....     oh, nevermind. Go back 
> to what you were doing." :)

That would be a custom code. :(


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