Re: [Apcupsd-users] Powering Debian/Linux box back on after APC UPS powers the PC off and power comes back online?

[Phillip Pi <an...@zi...>]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 04:43:31PM -0400, David Bolen wrote:
> Phillip Pi <an...@zi...> writes:
> 
> > I did have my BIOS/CMOS to set "last state" so my PC can turn on after 
> > PC is turned off. For some reason, it didn't work from an earlier's 
> > five hours power outage? Here's my APC UPS event log:
> 
> Typically that BIOS setting (as opposed to always on with power) will
> only start up the machine had been operating right at the point of the
> power interruption.
> > ...
> > $ cat /var/log/apcupsd.events
> > 2011-06-14 20:44:37 -0700  apcupsd 3.14.8 (16 January 2010) debian 
> > startup succeeded
> > 2011-07-06 12:26:48 -0700  Power failure.
> > 2011-07-06 12:26:54 -0700  Running on UPS batteries.
> > 2011-07-06 12:52:46 -0700  Battery charge below low limit.
> > 2011-07-06 12:52:46 -0700  Initiating system shutdown!
> > 2011-07-06 12:52:46 -0700  User logins prohibited
> > 2011-07-06 12:52:49 -0700  apcupsd exiting, signal 15
> > 2011-07-06 20:06:31 -0700  apcupsd 3.14.8 (16 January 2010) debian 
> > startup succeeded
> 
> In this case, apcupsd cleanly shut down the machine prior to power
> being removed, so from the BIOS perspective "last state" was "off",
> and that's how it stayed when power was restored.
> 
> You'd need to configure BIOS so that the PC always powers up as soon
> as it receives power (regardless of its prior state) to restart in
> this scenario.

Ah! There's the problem. OK, I will put to "ON" then. Is that all I need 
to do?
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