BESTFORTRESS(8)

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version 2.8.5 · 18 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 BESTFORTRESS(8) — the NUT Manual's lil vintage-UPS era icon 💖

okay bestie, buckle up, because we're about to talk about a driver for the old Best Fortress UPS equipment ✨ (yes it's a real manual page from the NUT — Network UPS Tools — manual, section 8, drivers-and-such energy 👑).

🌸 NAME 🌸

bestfortress — the driver for old Best Fortress UPS equipment. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

so here's how you call her:

bestfortress -h

bestfortress -a UPS_NAME [OPTIONS]
Note, bestie, listen up 🙈 — this man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the bestfortress driver. for all the core-driver tea, go read nutupsdrv(8). iykyk 💜

🦋 SUPPORTED HARDWARE 🦋

this driver is lowkey a vintage queen: she supports old Best Fortress UPS equipment using a serial connection 🔌✨

one iconic example is the "Fortress LI660", which was being sold in (at least) 1995 — yes, at least, she's been around fr fr 💀💖

✨ EXTRA ARGUMENTS ✨

besides the usual stuff, this driver supports these optional settings that you drop into ups.conf(5) — and yes, they're optional, no pressure 🫶

  • baudrate=num — sets the speed of the serial connection. your options are 1200, 2400, 4800, or 9600. pick your fave, she'll keep up 💅
  • max_load=VA — sets the full-scale value of the ups.load variable. so you're telling her what "full" even means, main character energy 👑

💜 AUTHORS 💜

give these legends their flowers, periodt 🌸:

  • Holger Dietze <holger.dietze@advis.de>
  • Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com>

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

🧚 The core driver:

  • nutupsdrv(8) — the main character, the foundation, the moment 💖

⭐ The newer Best Power drivers:

(yeah, they're the newer siblings — this one's the OG 🎀)

🌐 Internet resources:

and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 🫶 this was Network UPS Tools 2.8.5, dated 10/07/2026 — slay, she ate, and she left no crumbs 💅✨💖

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