[mythtv-users] UPS with mythbuntu

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:57 AM, UB40D <ub40dd at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I recently had a few power outages and the last one caused a database
> corruption that was sufficiently annoying to repair that I just got myself
> a UPS.
>
> The maker's web site offers a linux version of their software, with
> control panel etc.
> http://www.cpsww.eu/support/product_support.htm?countrytabs=2
>
> Should I be using that, or is there a canonical way to integrate a UPS
> into mythbuntu that I should be following instead? The box is a fully
> dedicated myth appliance so I'm not actually interested in the control
> panel.
>
> All I want is basically, when there is a power cut, for the system to shut
> down properly, whatever it's doing. OK to miss some recordings, obviously,
> and even OK to lose the ones that were maybe recording at the time, but not
> ok to fuck up the database or other crucial bits such that the box doesn't
> come up properly when the power is back on.
>

I think nut is what you're looking for:
http://www.networkupstools.org/documentation.html

Karl
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