On 4 March 2016 at 10:46, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
One of the "great" (for some value of great) thing about "It Just Works" is you (one) has no-idea how it works!
Indeed! For stuff that I have no real interest in that's fine, and to be honest although I've set up nut many times in the past it's never been regular enough that I've actually learned it (I always have to Google). Which means the obvious benefits of knowing how it works don't really apply and I might as well "learn" afresh how to do it in the new GUI environment.
I have apcupsd running = APC UPS Daemon. Minimal config & it works. You may or may not have that installed, or perhaps it's a hardware-driven USB driver thingy.
I don't have apcupsd (or at least "ps ax | grep apc" shows nothing).
As the main PC is my Linux box at the moment I'm minded to let it chance it - the Windows PC is still UPS backed regardless so it's only handling the case where the power is off long enough to kill the UPS (which admittedly isn't all that long).
Thanks for the suggestions though.
Mark