Re: Quigon... the evil router.

[Dan Brosemer <odin@cleannorth.org>]

In the grand tradition of replying to one's own emails...

My machines send me a list each night of the configuration changes.  Look at
this one:

Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 01:36:23 -0400 (EDT)                                      
/etc/rc.local diffs (OLD < > NEW)                                               
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54a55,58                                                                        
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> /usr/local/sbin/upsd                                                          

I added the UPS monitoring software to the system on May 5... now look here
at a message I posted to techies@lists.cleannorth.org:
                                                                                
     * Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 13:22:12 -0400                                    
I got a new heatsink/fan for quigon, and Jim threw a gob of thermal grease      
on it.  It shouldn't be overheating again any time soon.                        

That was about a week after the initial failure (you will remember it failed
twice before I put a new fan in it).

Co-incidence?

I may be on to something!

So I've upgraded to OpenBSD 2.9.  That'll make the system the same version
as our others, and it may also help this if it's a stability issue related
to the software.  Here's hoping.

There _are_ other UPS monitoring daemons, but none with these nice features.
If it comes down to it, I'll try a different piece of software and see where
that goes.

-Dan

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