2009/8/10 Christian Huldt <[email protected]> > > Christian Huldt > [email protected] > +46704612207 > > > > 9 aug 2009 kl. 21.55 skrev Charles Lepple: > > On Aug 9, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Christian Huldt wrote: >> >> Is there some smart way of not having ioupsd claming the device on mac os >>> x? >>> >> >> My only working Macs (at the moment) are laptops, so I haven't had to try >> this in a while. What errors do you get if you just try to run usbhid-ups? >> >> > "Can't claim the device" even if I run as root >
iirc, there was no detach_device() primitive outside of linux. so your only chance might be to kill ioupsd as part of the NUT startup script. test this with caution though, since I don't know how ioupsd will behave (auto respawn, shutdown the system, ...?) > > Or having nut talk to ioupsd? >>> >> >> We don't have code for this, but it wouldn't be completely out of the >> question. >> >> (/usr/ibexec/ioupsd is the builtin ups daemon, but I need the machine to >>> tell the other machine about the UPS status, and ioupsd does not do >>> networking AFAIK...) >>> >> >> Out of curiosity, which version of OS X are you using? >> > > 10.5.7 client > > I'm not sure of the consequences of removing disabling ioupsd, but I would > expect it to be restored by software updates at an unpredictable rate... > quite probable! that's why I mentioned the "kill hem all" approach. cheers, 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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