On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Ian Smith wrote: > > Notice that we have not specified a device. In doing so, apcupsd > > will try all the well known USB ports. > > > > > > I don't understand why usbdevs can't find any controllers and > > > > apcupsd can't find any device while the kernel and usbconfig > > > > can find it all. > > > > > > upsdevs: probably obsolete. As for apcupsd, I don't think it > > > can auto-scan for USB devices, but haven't used it with USB. > > > > See above. > > Frank, have you actually tried specifying DEVICE /dev/ugen0.2 ? > > Maybe that port syntax is not 'well known' to apcupsd? Just a punt.
Does apcupsd change user? If so, does that user have permissions to access the USB device nodes? You might want to try sysutils/nut, that should work with an APC USB UPS. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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