On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 12:09 +0100, J.R. Seago wrote:
I've found the snag, my monitor runs from a transformer, that has a standard three pin plug, and even though the computer doesn't go down I cant see what's happening enough to shut it off, (I work with/through the GUI). I'll have to find a way round that, but at the moment I'm happy that it will run the computer long enough that the power will come back before it gets shut down involuntarily.
Does your UPS not have an interface to shut down the machine for you when there is only just enough runtime to do a clean shutdown ? Or does it have one that is not Linux friendly ?
Plugging a monitor in will just reduce runtime on the UPS (and therefore it's usefulness) and a UPS that doesn't tell a PC to shut down when the battery is getting too low is only slightly better than no UPS at all (IMO)
Also depending on your hardware and kernel it should be possible to set up a clean shutdown from a ACPI powerbutton press event, in fact this should be the standard configuration. Of course that doesn't save existing open documents etc.