[sudo-discuss] Omni commons Wifi Down

[Yardena Cohen]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 1:04 PM Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
> I don't think we need to spend any money to buy a UPS, we have plenty laying
> around and it's just a matter of connecting one to the appropriate hardware and
> connecting the battery of our choice to it, and then configuring apcupsd
>
> the expensive thing about UPSs is that the battery they come with is tiny and
> not cheap, but if one is willing to mount the battery outside of the UPS
> battery compartment, it's trivial to find a 12V battery laying around.
>
> first step will be to locate a UPS in the piles that has a USB port, so that it
> can notify the computer when main power has failed, so that it can do a
> graceful shutdown.

OK, thanks for volunteering to do that.