Re: Blasted device! Problems with UPS.

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

>  I`ve recently acquired a APC Back-UPS Pro 1400, and I`m trying to get
> it working with apcupsd.

I'd be interested to know how you get on with this (after you get it
working, obviously ;). I keep thinking about a ups, don't know whether or
not to go for one over a surge strip. You see, if I put my hi-fi on it,
it'll sound much better (less noise on the power supply, 'cos the
electricity is cleaner ;) .... 

>  I`ve got the UPS connected to my box via APC`s 940-0024C cable on tty1.

Would that be ttyS1 by any chance??? Also, I presume that's an rs232 cable
you've got there? At least at one end, it ought to be...

>  The UPS needs to take over the serial port - I`ve got the modem on tty0
> - but do I have to do anything to allow apcupsd to access tty1 (i.e.
> tell it not to be a modem control line)?

I imagine tty0 is your physical console, is it not? How have you connected
your modem to that? 

>  As far as I can see, there isn`t much else to get wrong.

Connecting your modem to tty0 sounds wrong to me ;)))

Cheers,

Alex.


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