From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Redux: Any UPS recommendations?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:57:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F0B4EB.7090706@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130111002133.GA23217@waltdnes.org>
On 01/10/2013 04:21 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:01:47AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
>
> I got an APC Back-UPS BX1300G-CN from the local Staples. No worry
> whatsoever about overloading this baby. I'm currently running a
> "torture test" with the monitor, the modem, and both PC's running.
> They're both doing an update. I set things up so that both are building
> gcc at the same time. Even so, the load indicator is only lighting up 2
> of 5 bars, indicating approximately 40% of max load. It might've been a
> different story years ago back in the days of the Pentium 4 or AMD "space
> heaters", plus add-on video cards.
>
> Being the geek that I am, I did RTFM the docs that came with the UPS.
> It has an option to decide how much to allow voltage to vary before
> switching over to battery power. I selected the narrowest range, i.e.
> the "sensitive electronics" setting.
>
> One question about the configuration of apcupsd; what do I have to do
> get it to execute "/usr/sbin/hibernate" when hydro is out, and the
> battery is running low?
>
I've never used hibernate. I would imagine that that apcupsd would have
a hook. I googled quickly and found an ArchWiki article that discusses
it. Apparently you can create a symlink and apcupsd will use it rather
than the usual shutdown process.
Disclaimer: I have not tried it myself.
Dan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-12 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-08 13:01 [gentoo-user] Any UPS recommendations? Walter Dnes
2013-01-08 16:39 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-01-08 17:27 ` Paul Hartman
2013-01-08 17:32 ` Paul Hartman
2013-01-08 20:47 ` Daniel Frey
2013-01-08 18:45 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2013-01-08 22:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Steven Lembark
2013-01-09 0:05 ` Randy Barlow
2013-01-09 0:32 ` Matthew Marlowe
2013-01-09 7:24 ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-09 15:47 ` Daniel Frey
2013-01-09 19:15 ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-09 19:38 ` Thanasis
2013-01-09 16:08 ` Dale
2013-01-11 0:21 ` [gentoo-user] Redux: " Walter Dnes
2013-01-12 0:57 ` Daniel Frey [this message]
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