Re: What BackUPS?

[Colin <cwvca_SPAMNOT@hotmail.com>]

Bill Day wrote:
> Well we had some rain and lightning and thunder and winds yesterday and i was 
> asleep in my chair...  lost all of my uptime becuase my old BackUPS was dead.  
> 
> Finally the question, what BackUPS do you use that Debian interacts with.  The 
> last one I had had no interaction with anything, it just beeped until it ran 
> out of juice.
> 
> I don't need a server side scale backup, just something that will give about 
> 10-15 minutes for a proper shutdown.

I use the apcupsd package to shutdown the computer before the battery runs out.