Ubuntu and UPS

[Brian McKee]

On 05/09/07, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 10:17 +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Is it Ubuntu support UPS? I mean, when the electricity goes down, the
> > UPS active, and for several minutes, my computer with Ubuntu OS, will
> > automatically shutdown.
> >
> > What are packages I should install?
>
> I don't know about other brands, but APC is well-supported. Look into
> the packages apcupsd, apcupsd-cgi, and apcupsd-doc, and
> http://www.apcupsd.com/

The other common option is nut - http://www.networkupstools.org/