2009/5/16 Arjen de Korte <[email protected] <nut%[email protected]>>
> Citeren Charles Lepple <[email protected]>: > > I'm btw wondering if we should pass the debug flags to the driver in such >>> a case... >>> comments? >>> >> >> Agreed - we have been telling people to "use upsdrvctl" and "enable >> debugging", and the two messages conflict with each other somewhat. >> > > I'm slightly worried about you and Arnaud not recalling why this isn't a > good idea: > > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2007-May/002712.html > > Also, if multiple drivers are configured in ups.conf, it probably would > lead to an endless mess of debugging output. > > There isn't much to debug in upsdrvctl anyway. >> > > Maybe, although passing on the debug flags to drivers would effectively > remove the possibility to debug upsdrvctl once and for all. I for certain > wouldn't like that, because in the past I have used this quite often. > > Don't forget that the debugging options in NUT aren't meant to help Joe > User, it's to enable us (the developers) to get additional information on > why something isn't working as it should. Therefor, when asking Joe to > enable debugging, we should make it abundently clear what we want from him. > So don't tell him to 'enable debugging', but post the commandline to execute > on his system. > you're right, Arjen. thanks for recalling us that ;-) Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://www.eaton.com/mgeops Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
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