> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 02:23:14AM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > > > What am I missing? The S50nut symlink is in /etc/rc2.d, and > both > > > > systems are at runlevel 2. I set up the systems the very same way > (as > > > far > > > > as I can remember or tell), except that one employs driver = > > > tripplite_usb > > > > in usb.conf and the other uses driver = usbhid-ups, plus the two > have > > > > different backup names. Otherwise, I think everything is the same. > > > > > > One thing you can do to catch any subtle differences is to tar up the > > > /etc/nut directory on one machine, then extract it into /tmp on the > > > other machine, and use 'diff -Naur /etc/nut /tmp/nut' or whatnot. > > > > Yeah, that was the first thing I did. The machine name, UPS driver, and > UPS > > name are different, of course, but everything else is identical. The > > respective names and driver are correct (which we pretty much knew in > the > > first place, because it wouldn't work at all otherwise). > > > Are you certain your nut startup script is even actually being run?
Not with absolute certainty, no. > This sounds like for some reason the system's never trying to run the > script. 'Not really, since running the script manually has no effect, either. > Why don't you modify the script to log a timestamp to a file in > /etc every time it gets run? I'll try that, buts since running the script manually has no effect, either, I don't expect anything diagnostic from this. > Are you certain the system's booting to the correct runlevel? Runlevel 2. _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser

