On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 12:57 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:34, Anne Wilson wrote: > > My ups is working well, but I would like to use the monitoring > > software. Unfortunately I seem to have a config problem, which I > > don't understand. These are the error messages: > > > > Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 Cannot create > > /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd/LCK..ttyS0 serial port lock file: ERR=No > > such file or directory > > Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcdevice.c > > at line 87 > > Unable to create UPS lock file. > > Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd error shutdown completed > > > > The directory /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd exists. Why can't it > > create the lock file? > > > > Anne > > I guess the first obvious question is does the dir have the correct > permissions for whatever apcupsd is running as? On my system it > runs as root. And, are you sure there is a /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd > directory? I have a apcupsd file in /var/lock/subsys/ but no > apcupsd directory...
I think you pointed me at the solution <g>. I created the /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd directory, because it seemed to want to use that to create the lock file. However, I now think I was wrong. I have deleted that directory. There is a file /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd, which must be used in the lock file creation. We'll see what happens at the next reboot, but I think that is right. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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