Re: Bulldog upsd crashes

In article <jollyroger-54FE99.17103825092008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <barmar-A939F3.14582825092008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Barry Margolin <barmar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <jollyroger-31FDED.21543624092008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <barmar-B4795D.22491924092008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Barry Margolin <barmar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Earlier this year I bought a Belkin UPS. It comes with power
management
software called Bulldog. If the power goes out an alert pops up, and
it
has hooks into the Energy Saver preferences so that you can configure
orderly shutdown if the power is out for too long.

What version Mac OS X are you running?

10.5.5.

Are you aware Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.4 (maybe even 10.3) has built-in
support for USB-based UPS devices?

No, I didn't know that. I assumed all the UPS-related options were
added to Energy Saver by Bulldog, not native. So I guess I can just
trash Bulldog.

You'll need to be sure to *properly* uninstall it, because typically
third-party UPS software *disables* Apple's UPS kernel extension(s).

It has an uninstall script. It kills the upsd process (which isn't
running for me), deletes the application directory, deletes the startup
item that starts upsd, and deletes the package file from
/Library/Receipts.

I assume upsd disables the kernel extensions, so this doesn't happen
when it crashes.

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