Re: ups and software for automatic shutdown.

[Gabriel Parrondo <nqtnn.gabo@gmail.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> Mauro Sanna wrote:
>
> > Can you suggest an ups with a software for automatic shutdown for my 
> > debian servers?
>
>
> I have just installed a Back-UPS LS 500.
> Debian package apcupsd supports that out of the box.
>
> That's sort of a bottom of the line UPS, I think, but with the PC, 
> monitor, modem plugged into the battery outlets I have 11 minutes of 
> battery runtime, a load of 62%.
>
> If I blank the monitor the battery runtime goes up to 20 mins.
>
> It will shutdown the system via apcupsd if batterytime is exhausted 
> and restart when the power returns.
>
> I have an unresolved issue about the restart. Because apcupsd uses 
> shutdown -h now and not shutdown -r now, when power returns on my mobo 
> it will just sit there and not show the lilo boot screen and restart 
> things. But I may not have that researched just right.
>
> HTH
> H

man inittab

read about powerfail, etc..

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