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- Yet another ups daemon. This one's good for people without a serial port to
- spare. (The hardware interface uses the game port)
-
- This code is being released because of the numerous requests I have received
- for it. I am placing it in the public domain. It's probably filled with local
- dependencies and will require some adaptation to your site.
-
- On powerloss, it stops cron, disables logins (by creating /etc/issue.linefail-
- when this file exists, our custom login program displays its contents and
- aborts the login attempt) and broadcasts a message to all logged in users
- (except those whose names start with "uu" [uucp logins]; again, a local
- assumption). The system is brought down only when the low battery condition
- is detected. If power returns before the battery becomes low, cron
- is restarted, /etc/issue.linefail removed and the users are notified.
-
- Brian E. Litzinger's peek driver must be installed in your kernel and available
- as /dev/peek. You can get it by anonymous FTP from
- svin02.info.win.tue.nl:/pub/sysvX86/peek.tar.z
-
- If you can't FTP, email me.
-
- Marc Boucher.
- Internet: marc@PostImage.COM Telephone: +1 514 489-8989
-