Re: What BackUPS?

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>]

On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:55:34AM -0400, Colin wrote:
> 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.

It doesn't seem to work for me.
After a while running and responding, the daemon seems to die, or stall.
For example, in the first time I use apcaccess (right after booting) it
works. But after some time, it stalls and doesn't respond.
Trying to restart apcupsd also doesn't work.

I run sid, and I've been compiling kernels from kernel.org (I believe this may be
the reason). What are you running (kernel and version of Debian)?

J.