any good UPS for a Fedora server

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Nov 15 20:19:58 UTC 2007


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> In the event of a quake, it seems to me prudent to cut HT and mains, but
>> then generator sets automatically starting up would tend to negate the
>> action.
>>
> Not really - before you cut the mains, you switch the generator set
> control to off instead of auto. 

And if the power goes when nobody's home?


I was away two weeks recently, and the power went while I was away. One 
of the systems didn't come up, and when I got back a week later the 
office had an evil smell, the smoke got out of a switch.

-- 

Cheers
John

-- spambait
1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu  Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu
-- Advice
http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

Please do not reply off-list




More information about the users mailing list