Thanks - that was the problem. With the new rpm, it works.
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom
Berkley
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] apcupsd - losing the serial connection
there is an update apcupsd-3.8.0-1.1mdk.i586.rpm. you may want to get it
before you spend a lot more time messing with it.
tom berkley
Andrew Judge wrote:
>
> I am trying to setup apcupsd for a backUPS 300Va. I received the serial
> cable directly from APC for the simple UPS. It seems to start okay, but
> about 5 seconds after it starts, I can see that there is an error stating
> "Serial communications with UPS lost" in /var/log/messages. Does anyone
> know what might cause this? I am using the rpm from the 7.2 distribution
> (3.7.0)
>
> The output I get from apcaccess status is:
>
> DATE : Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 EST 1969
> HOSTNAME : igor.aerobuilders.com
> RELEASE : 3.7.0
> CABLE : APC Cable 940-0020B
> MODEL : BackUPS
> UPSMODE : Stand Alone
> LINEFAIL : OK
> BATTSTAT : OK
> END APC : Mon Jan 08 14:15:03 EST 2001
>
> Also, I get an rwall message saying that the serial connection was lost.
> Any help would be much appreciated
>
> Andy
