The UPS Howto

Harvey J. Stein, hjstein@math.huji.ac.il, Berger Financial Research, Ltd.

v1.3, 16 April 1995

This document will help you connect an uninterruptable power supply to a Linux box... if you're lucky... Copyright (c) 1994 by Harvey J. Stein. You may use this document as you see fit, as long as it remains intact. In particular, this notice (along with the contributions below) must remain untouched.

1. Introduction

2. What you need to do (summary)

3. How it's supposed to work

4. Where to get the appropriate software

5. How to set things up

6. User Enhancements

7. User Enhancements

8. make-cable

9. hacking

10. serial-port

11. ioctl

12. How to shutdown other machines on the same UPS