[Nut-upsuser] Powerdown on FreeBSD

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Friday 25 August 2006 19:23, Johan Pramming wrote:
> True, thanks for pointing out my shell scripting skills :D

Heh :)

> >I have ondelay = 13 and offdelay = 120 in my ups.conf (MGE Pulsar EX) so
> >the
> >system gets 2 minutes to shut down gracefully.
>
> Much better solution, I think that is what I will implement if I ever get
> my UPS working under FreeBSD.
> Unfortunately there is no ondelay or offdelay in ther PowerMust driver.

It may be a hardware limitation :(

> It seems that nobody have such experience.
> I will probably try to install nut on my IPCop firewall instead, as I would
> very much like my FreeBSD systems to shutdown gracefully.

You could patch FreeBSD to unmount disks and then run a script as part of 
shutdown 8-)

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