From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5E11389F5 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:37:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B695AE0AC5; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vergina.hopto.org (cust-218-222.on4.ontelecoms.gr [92.118.218.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A4A3E0999 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:37:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (viper.vergina.hopto.org [192.168.0.1]) by viper.vergina.hopto.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04CFE6008E for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 18:37:27 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <54678147.9070306@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 18:37:27 +0200 From: Thanasis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.8.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power References: <54664F99.602@asyr.hopto.org> <201411150935.56737.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <54674C95.1050600@asyr.hopto.org> <54675B2C.4040003@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 79645c45-9344-45c9-9422-2c6dadf6bf2a X-Archives-Hash: c68d4695342786e4812e34f0d728d9e1 on 11/15/2014 04:40 PM Rich Freeman wrote the following: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Bruce Schultz 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 ?)