Salut, 2008/1/23, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Le 23.01.2008 18:18:09, Arnaud Quette a écrit: > >Bonjour Jean-Luc, > > Bonjour Arnaud, > > > > >Well, in fact, I've put that comment but it's not needed for the > >moment. > >The hal user is retrieved using pkg-config and the driver switch to > >this user upon its init. > >This explains why the nut hal drivers *works* ;-) > > > > I'm a bit puzzle because if I install nut-hal-drivers "out of the box", > the ups doent appear in gnome-power-manager. > I had to finish the process manually before it accept to work. > > (I was using the old version of nut before)
well, thinking a bit again on this point, I think that you're right. the hal user is needed to connect the nut driver to the hal proxy *but* the nut privileges are needed to access the /dev file since the privileges applied by the udev script sets it to nut... QED thanks for pointing my mistake. scheduled for -2 Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - MGE Office Protection Systems - http://www.mgeops.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
