On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 18:44 +0100, Ben Francis wrote:
Seriously though, I'd really like a UPS for my home server and router because it's in a rural area with unreliable power. Are UPSs well supported in Linux for clean shut downs?
apcupsd will support many (if not all) APC UPS devices, USB or Serial interface.
nut and it's associated interface packages also supports APC devices (but not as well as apcupsd) and a reasonable selection of others.
On advantage of nut is that multiple machines can react basted on a single UPS event, as nut has a client/server architecture. Although to be honest with Linux that behaviour is only a shell script away regardless of what method you use to shut down.
Of course you need to check compatibility before purchasing a UPS but I have never had much problem with APC's