On Oct 7, 2013, at 4:48 AM, David N Melik wrote: >> What are you trying to optimize? > > nothing, but I just did not want another daemon running, or at least I > do not want a port open that can access the UPS, because I will not be > using it; it is more of a minor security issue than anything. The > instructions I read said to set up that port in NUT configuration, but I > would rather not set that.
I forgot to mention: by default, NUT listens on localhost. If you are using Linux, you could add a "-m owner --uid-owner" rule to iptables to only match the UID for the NUT system user. -- Charles Lepple clepple@gmail _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser

