On Thu June 8 2006 3:13 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote: > apcupsd is your friend. ok, so I browsed the apcupsd.conf file, and set it up for what I THINK are my parameters.. and started it in system services, then started it with: apcupsd& soo..... now what? oh, I DID plug in the little cable from the ups to a USB port:) almost forgot THAT step! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800