Nut upsuser - Oct 2007 - problems with nut - openSUSE 10.3

Hallo group,
I am running openSUSE 10.3 with nut-2.2.0-20 installed. I have
configured it as mentioned in /usr/share/doc/packages/nut/README.SUSE.
on starting nut using "rcupsd start" i get following:
#
Starting NUT UPS monitor                                            
done

Broadcast Message from root at pane
        (somewhere) at 22:27 ...

Communications with UPS myups at localhost lost


Broadcast Message from root at pane
        (somewhere) at 22:27 ...

UPS myups at localhost is unavailable
#
syslog:
Oct 18 22:27:29 pane upsmon[13329]: Startup successful
Oct 18 22:27:29 pane upsmon[13330]: UPS [myups at localhost]: connect
failed: Connection failure: Connection refused
Oct 18 22:27:29 pane upsmon[13330]: Communications with UPS
myups at localhost lost
Oct 18 22:27:34 pane upsmon[13330]: UPS [myups at localhost]: connect
failed: Connection failure: Connection refused
Oct 18 22:27:34 pane upsmon[13330]: UPS myups at localhost is unavailable
Oct 18 22:27:40 pane upsmon[13330]: UPS [myups at localhost]: connect
failed: Connection failure: Connection refused

i recognized upsd and the driver are not running...
so i tried to start the driver manually... but it didn't have
permissions on /dev/ttyS3, so i changed, and the driver works... then i
could also start upsd manually...
but upsmon or upsc can't connect to it:
# upsc -l
upsc.c:170: Error: Server disconnected

i get the same if i trie manually to connect to port 3493, the
connection is being closed at once..

what am i doing wrong, and why the hell does /etc/init.d/upsd change the
permissions on /dev/ttyS3 wrong?

thanks for your help,

Paul


-config files below (except the annotations)
ups.conf:
 [myups]
        driver = megatec
        port = /dev/ttyS3
        desc = "first UPS device"
-
upsd.conf (for testing allowed all, but port not reachable from the
internet):
ACL all 0.0.0.0/0
ACL localhost 127.0.0.1/32

ACCEPT all
-
upsd.users:
[upsmaster]
        password = admin
        allowfrom = localhost
        upsmon master

[upsslave]
        password = 82576d5d89
        allowfrom = localhost
        upsmon slave
-
upsmon.conf:
RUN_AS_USER upsd
MONITOR myups at localhost 1 upsmaster admin master
MINSUPPLIES 1
SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown -h +0"
NOTIFYCMD /usr/lib/powersave/powersave-notify
POLLFREQ 5
POLLFREQALERT 5
HOSTSYNC 15
DEADTIME 15
POWERDOWNFLAG /etc/killpower
NOTIFYFLAG ONLINE   SYSLOG
NOTIFYFLAG COMMOK   SYSLOG
NOTIFYFLAG SHUTDOWN SYSLOG
NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT   SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG LOWBATT  SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG FSD      SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG NOCOMM   SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG COMMBAD  SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
RBWARNTIME 43200
NOCOMMWARNTIME 300
FINALDELAY 5

> I am running openSUSE 10.3 with nut-2.2.0-20 installed. I have
> configured it as mentioned in /usr/share/doc/packages/nut/README.SUSE.
> on starting nut using "rcupsd start" i get following:
> #
> Starting NUT UPS monitor
> done
>
> Broadcast Message from root at pane
>         (somewhere) at 22:27 ...
>
> Communications with UPS myups at localhost lost
>
>
> Broadcast Message from root at pane
>         (somewhere) at 22:27 ...
>
> UPS myups at localhost is unavailable
> #
> syslog:
> Oct 18 22:27:29 pane upsmon[13329]: Startup successful
> Oct 18 22:27:29 pane upsmon[13330]: UPS [myups at localhost]: connect
> failed: Connection failure: Connection refused
> Oct 18 22:27:29 pane upsmon[13330]: Communications with UPS
> myups at localhost lost
> Oct 18 22:27:34 pane upsmon[13330]: UPS [myups at localhost]: connect
> failed: Connection failure: Connection refused
> Oct 18 22:27:34 pane upsmon[13330]: UPS myups at localhost is unavailable
> Oct 18 22:27:40 pane upsmon[13330]: UPS [myups at localhost]: connect
> failed: Connection failure: Connection refused
>
> i recognized upsd and the driver are not running...
> so i tried to start the driver manually... but it didn't have
> permissions on /dev/ttyS3, so i changed, and the driver works... then i
> could also start upsd manually...
> but upsmon or upsc can't connect to it:
> # upsc -l
> upsc.c:170: Error: Server disconnected
>
> i get the same if i trie manually to connect to port 3493, the
> connection is being closed at once..
>
> what am i doing wrong, and why the hell does /etc/init.d/upsd change the
> permissions on /dev/ttyS3 wrong?
This script is not part of NUT. Please file a bugreport with openSUSE:

        https://bugzilla.novell.com/

Apparently, openSUSE messed up the initialization script as well. :-(

Best regards, Arjen
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