diff --git a/monitor/acpitail/acpitail.cache b/monitor/acpitail/acpitail.cache
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..32075dc1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/monitor/acpitail/acpitail.cache
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+
+[TIMESTAMP] 1186425760 Mon Aug  6 20:42:40 2007
+[BUILDTIME] 5 (5)
+[SIZE] 0.02 MB, 7 files
+
+[DEP] 00-dirtree
+[DEP] bash
+[DEP] binutils
+[DEP] bzip2
+[DEP] coreutils
+[DEP] diffutils
+[DEP] findutils
+[DEP] gcc
+[DEP] glibc
+[DEP] grep
+[DEP] libacpi
+[DEP] linux-header
+[DEP] make
+[DEP] patch
+[DEP] sed
+[DEP] sysfiles
+[DEP] tar
diff --git a/monitor/acpitail/acpitail.conf b/monitor/acpitail/acpitail.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c43c34657
--- /dev/null
+++ b/monitor/acpitail/acpitail.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+# 
+# Filename: package/.../acpitail/acpitail.conf
+# Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+# 
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+# 
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+# GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+
+pkgprefix -t libacpi
diff --git a/monitor/acpitail/acpitail.desc b/monitor/acpitail/acpitail.desc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7e95bfe4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/monitor/acpitail/acpitail.desc
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+[COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] Filename: package/.../acpitail/acpitail.desc
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+[COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+[COPY] the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+[COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+[I] A tail-like ACPI monitor
+
+[T] Acpitail shows information regarding the battery-state, fan-states,
+[T] temperatures, and other relevant details of an ACPI capable system
+[T] (mostly laptops) in a tail-like way.
+
+[U] http://www.vanheusden.com/acpitail/
+
+[A] Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
+[M] Minto van der Sluis <misl@opensde.org>
+
+[C] extra/tool
+
+[L] GPL
+[S] Beta
+[V] 0.1
+[P] X -----5---9 110.500
+
+[D] 2955278072 acpitail-0.1.tgz http://www.vanheusden.com/acpitail/
diff --git a/monitor/acpitail/install.patch b/monitor/acpitail/install.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9a5044a23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/monitor/acpitail/install.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+# 
+# Filename: package/.../acpitail/install.patch
+# Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+# 
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+# 
+# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
+# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
+# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
+# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+# version.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+diff -ru acpitail-0.1.orig/Makefile acpitail-0.1/Makefile
+--- acpitail-0.1.orig/Makefile	2007-06-18 12:07:30.000000000 +0200
++++ acpitail-0.1/Makefile	2007-08-06 20:37:28.000000000 +0200
+@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
+ 	$(CC) -Wall -W $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS) -o acpitail
+ 
+ install: acpitail
+-	cp acpitail /usr/local/sbin
++	cp acpitail ${DESTDIR}/${prefix}
+ 
+ clean:
+ 	rm -f $(OBJS) acpitail core *.da *.gcov *.bb*