Hello Mr Baart, 2006/3/11, R.J. Baart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We are a reseller of MGE. Just sold 2 MGE Evolution 1100 UPS and 4 MGW > powerswitches. >
thanks for your choice and support. > But I have a problem with a new MGE Evolution 1100 UPS. After adding > user=root I was able > to start nut. But the monitor won't work. I guess a problem with > autorization. However I can't > find the solution. Perhaps this report is relevant for the further > development op this software > and documentation. I would appreciate any suggestions. > > Relebant lines in the /var/log/syslog: > upsd[13612]: Can't connect to UPS [mgeups] (newhidups-auto): Permission denied > Mar 10 23:25:58 hrst-ux100 upsmon[13545]: Poll UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed - > Driver not > connected > Mar 10 23:25:58 hrst-ux100 upsmon[13615]: Poll UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed - > Driver not > connected > > # OS > Debian etch with kernel 2.6.15-1-686 > > #hardware > Asus P4-server > > #Debian packages > nut 2.0.3-3 > nut-dev 2.0.3-3 this one is only required to compile client applications, such as wmnut. > nut-usb 2.0.3-3 > > #start stop > # /etc/init.d/nut start > Starting Network UPS Tools: upsd upsmon. > # echo $? > 0 > > > # ps -ef|grep nut > root 13610 1 0 22:15 ? 00:00:00 /lib/nut/newhidups -a mgeups > nut 13612 1 0 22:16 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/upsd > nut 13615 13614 0 22:16 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/upsmon > root 22453 13455 0 23:54 pts/5 00:00:00 grep nut > ... it seems that you only run newhidups as root. If so, upsd should also run as root to be able to read/write the data from the driver's socket. But that's not the solution, and the problem might be elsewhere... What append if you don't set the "-user=root"? Also, what are the permissions on /dev/bus/usb/002/ (using "ls -l")? Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - R&D Dpt Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
