Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Robert Heller wrote: >> At Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:26:10 +0100 (BST) CentOS mailing list >> <centos at centos.org> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> >>>> I have a CentOS-5.6 remote server in a house in Italy, >>>> where there are occasional thunder-storms. >>>> >>>> There was one yesterday, when the electricity >>>> went off 3 times, for a second or so on each occasion. <snip> >> With a non-Linux compatable UPS, you can use a old analog serial modem <snip> > Another solution could be cheap router with IP not pluged into UPS. If > server can not ping that IP, you would shut it down, via script. *shrug* I think all the UPSs I've seen for consumers in the last five years seem to have a USB port to go to the computer. That, and apcupsd, are all you need. mark