Re: debian & ups

[Jozef Hitzinger <hitzinger@phobos.fphil.uniba.sk>]

On 2 Sep 1999 goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

> Another thing that interests me is, whether you can export the UPS via 
> a network block device to another system and if you can split an UPS
> into two devices (one local and the other maybe exported over the
> network) so that two clients can listen to them.

There's no such support nowadays. Daemons connect to serial ports, then
use their own udp or tcp communication. As for splitting .. right now it's
done this way: every ups has got it's own low-level daemon. On the same
comp there's upsd, which sums up all the data from all of them, and makes
them accessible for as many clients as you want - local or remote,
text-based or cgi, doesn't matter.

There's a protocol ready for communicating things the other way back (I'm
talking of Russell Kroll's smartupstools), so one day we'll have clients
which set up things on ups (name, times, LEDs, etc).

I quite like this design, with acl's and stuff; it should be good. If
you can see a reason why /dev/ups would be needed, let me know.

-- 
jozef  :-)  
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