[Nut-upsdev] Asking hard questions about the NUT architecture

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue May 29 22:12:32 UTC 2007


Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com>:
> you might have missed another (the standard, at least for occident
> people like most of us) use case: what the user want is not at first
> to shutdown his system, but too have enough battery to support the
> power failure without having to shut down! This generally last few
> minutes, which is the majority of your considered use case. And the
> delay of some 30 sec will allow to hibernate the status.

Of course you're right.

But that use case doesn't need NUT at all.  Which was my point...
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