Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

[Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org>]

on 11/15/2014 04:40 PM Rich Freeman wrote the following:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Bruce Schultz <brulzki@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If the UPS battery has not run flat before the mains power is restored, I
>> see no reason why a UPS should kill the output power. So the BIOS has no
>> real way of knowing that it should reboot again in that case.
>>
>
> Obviously not directly applicable, but I use nut and a cyberpower UPS
> and the shutdown scheme it employs is that the master (controls the
> UPS) commands everything else to shut down, then it begins shutdown,
> and just before powering off it sends a command to the UPS which
> causes a several second delay followed by a power off, and then it
> powers off the host (which is otherwise shutdown already).
>
> I need to re-read how exactly this is implemented.
>

As I wrote in the initial post I am running apcupsd because my UPS is an 
APC (... should I switch to sys-power/nut ?)