Re: Using apcupsd for power failure controle

2018-03-02 Thread deloptes
Richard Hector wrote: > On 02/03/18 03:09, Marc Auslander wrote: >>> I think you can usually set the power-on behaviour in the BIOS (or EFI, >>> presumably) - independently of the OS or any shutdown process. >>> >>> Richard >> So here's the issue - maybe I'm missing something. >> >> If I configur

Re: Using apcupsd for power failure controle

2018-03-02 Thread deloptes
Richard Hector wrote: > I confess I've never set up a ups for all this before, but I've read > about it ... I'm pretty sure you can instruct the ups to shut down, but > I don't know whether you can tell it to come back as soon as the power > is stable (possibly immediately). perhaps no, but I hav

Re: Using apcupsd for power failure controle

2018-03-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/03/18 03:09, Marc Auslander wrote: >> I think you can usually set the power-on behaviour in the BIOS (or EFI, >> presumably) - independently of the OS or any shutdown process. >> >> Richard > So here's the issue - maybe I'm missing something. > > If I configure apcupsd to shutdown on power f

Re: Using apcupsd for power failure controle

2018-03-01 Thread Marc Auslander
(Was Were is gapcmon?) >> >> I've always use apcupsd which still works in stretch. My use is pretty >> trivial - just reports - I don't do anything automatic on power fail >> since I can't figure out how to do anything that will always wind up >> with my machine running when the power comes back!