nate at refried.org writes: > Good UPS software is a hard thing to find. I've used apcupsd[1] quite a > bit. As far as being able to talk with the UPS with any cable, this is > my choice. I've used it under Linux and OpenBSD listening to a BackUPS > Pro series using smart signalling over the 0095 cable. I'm going NUTS over trying to get apcupsd working :-(. I think I've got a valid cable. I can see on the breakout box how various lines change state when the UPS changes state. But none of that seems to make any difference to apcupsd (nothing gets logged, no shutdown is scheduled, etc.). apctest never reports anything changing (but there's no man page, and it never says what you're *supposed* to see when you run the tests...) I don't *really* think it's a bad serial port, and I do see changes on the breakout box in response to changes on the system serial port side (so at least I'm in no doubt that I'm manipulating the serial port I'm monitoring). Bah, humbug. This shouldn't be this hard to do, now that I'm down to a package that specifically supports my class of UPS, gives a very specific cable diagram, comes in a redhat RPM, etc. There shouldn't be that much room for me to get it wrong. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info